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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| Language: | en |
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1994
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED384371 |
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- Transfer Graduate Follow-Up Study, 1991-92 & 1992-93. Academic Achievement College Transfer Students Community Colleges Grade Point Average Graduate Surveys Instructional Effectiveness Outcomes of Education Participant Satisfaction School Effectiveness Student Attitudes Tables (Data) Two Year Colleges In 1994, Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), in North Carolina, conducted a survey of graduates from the 1991-92 and 1992-93 academic years who had subsequently enrolled in a four-year college and university to determine outcomes and assess graduates' satisfaction with the college, comparing findings with outcomes from previous years. Surveys were mailed to 1,763 graduates of curriculum programs, generating responses from 500, or 28.4% of curriculum graduates from the period, of whom 139 were classified as transfers. Survey results for the transfer graduates included the following: (1) 50.4% were female, 49.6% were between the ages of 19 and 25, and 8.7% were Black; (2) on average, transfer students completed their CPCC programs in 10.3 quarters, and 89.3% indicated that they had reached their self-declared goals; (3) 69.3% enrolled in a public state university, 18.1% in private four-year colleges, and 10.8 in CPCC programs; (4) regarding their general education experience at CPCC, respondents gave the highest ratings to critical thinking, communication in writing, awareness of values and beliefs of others, making decisions about employment, and working with different people; (5) top-ranked instructional areas were quality of instruction, course content, library facilities and materials, and availability of instructors; (6) 95.6% were satisfied or very satisfied with CPCC overall; and (7) compared with previous studies, respondents assigned higher scores to all areas of services and facilities. (KP)