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Author(s):Encouragement Services, Inc
Title:Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
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Organization:Encouragement Services, Inc
Short Description:The Connext Postsecondary Assessment System provides fully customizable web-delivered guidance reports for individuals, cohorts and selected groups of students in community colleges and bachelor's degree granting institutions.
Annotation:The Connext Postsecondary Assessment System provides fully customizable web-delivered guidance reports for individuals, cohorts and selected groups of students in community colleges and bachelor's degree granting institutions. These guidance reports enable data-driven guidance and support services and identification of students who may be at risk. The reports provide a rationale and justification for program development, promote improved advising and retention efforts, and enable users to document the effects of support services and programmatic interventions.
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College Access
Community Colleges
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Financial Aid, Affordability, Tuition, and Costs
Guidance Assessments/On-track Indicators/Early Warning Systems
High School
Improving Postsecondary Student Success
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APSCU's five tenents of veteran education
Trends in college spending, 1999-2009
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
Bridging the gap: An impact study of eight developmental summer bridge programs in Texas
Housing wealth and higher education: Building a foundation for economic mobility
Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition
Financial awareness counseling
Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs
Student debt and the class of 2011
Employees in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011 and student financial aid, academic year 2010-11 - first look
Students with disabilities: Better federal coordination could lessen challenges in transition from high school
Development, discouragement, or diversion? New evidence on the effects of college remediation
Education at a glance 2012: OECD indicators
Freshman transition initiatives: Long term and comprehensive
Data for action 2011
Postsecondary education student outcomes vary at for-profit, non-profit, and public schools
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
For profit schools: Experiences of undercover students enrolled in online classes at selected institutions
Dropout recovery is national recovery: How federal policies can support the spread of Back on Track through College pathways
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Cohort default rates in context
Smart spending: Reforming federal financial aid for higher education
2011 National survey of school counselors: School counseling at a crossroads
Using data and inquiry to build equity-focused college-going cultures
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
The road ahead: A look at trends in the educational attainment of community college students
Student aid simplification: Looking back and looking ahead
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
SREB: State data exchange report: 42 Years and still counting: 2010-11 Indicators report
Does federal student aid raise tuition? New evidence on for-profit colleges
Predicting success in college: The importance of placement tests and high school transcripts
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
High debt, low information: A survey of student loan borrowers
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways and progress
Closing the door, increasing the gap: Who's not going to (community) college?
Paying for college: Cost comparison worksheet
Borrowers on hold: Student loan collection agency complaint systems need massive improvement
Beyond need and merit: Strengthening state grant programs
Survey of income and program participation data on educational attainment
Hiring and higher education: Business executives talk about the costs and benefits of college
Conducting a scan of your college access and success system: Why it matters, how to do it, how to use it
Getting students ready for college and careers: Transitional senior mathematics
HBCU distance learning 2010
Dollars for degrees: Financial aid and its impact on post-secondary degree completion in Texas
25 Ways to reduce the cost of college
Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
The heart of student success: Teaching, learning, and college completion
Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher-education institutions
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community: A guide for facilitators
State test score trends through 2008-09, Part 2: Slow and uneven progress in narrowing gaps
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
After the FAFSA: How red tape can prevent eligible students from receiving financial aid
For-profit colleges: Undercover testing finds colleges encouraged fraud and engaged in deceptive and questionable marketing practices
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries
New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
The new net price calculator for college website
CollegeMeasures.org
Web tables - student financing of undergraduate education: 2007-08
Web tables - trends in undergraduate stafford loan borrowing: 1989-90 to 2007-08
Partnerships between community colleges and prisons: Providing workforce education and training to reduce recidivism
College admissions tests as measures of accountability
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
Helping former foster youth graduate from college: Campus support programs in California and Washington state
Trends in college spending: 1998-2008: Where does the money come from? Where does it go? What does it buy?
The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students
Data Quality Campaign: Data for action 2010: Executive summary
Early college graduates: Adapting, thriving, and leading in college
Get with the program: Accelerating community college students' entry into and completion of programs of study
Trends in for-profit postsecondary education: Enrollment, prices, student aid and outcomes
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Own the Turf: College and Career Readiness Counseling Campaign
Still denied: How community colleges shortchange students by not offering federal loans
Who wins? Who pays? The economic returns and costs of a Bachelor's degree
Promising practices supporting low-income, first-generation students at DeVry University
Is college worth it? College presidents, public assess value, quality and mission of higher education
Trends in college pricing 2010
GEAR UP Data: An information center of data, research, and analysis on GEAR UP
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
Teacher voices: Immigration, language and culture
Promoting full-time attendance among adults in community college: Early impacts from the performance-based scholarship demonstration in New York
Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits
You can go! Educator resources
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates
Resisters, rejectors, and ridas: How to make urban schools work for disengaged students and critically conscious teachers
Military service members and veterans: A profile of those enrolled in undergraduate and graduate education in 2007-08
Higher education reform: Next-generation models to increase success and control costs
Impacting college-going and completion rates in your community: Taking a systems approach
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
College Affordability and Transparency Center
2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)
Conditional cash transfers and college persistence: Evidence from a randomized need-based grant program
A step toward college success: Assessing attainment among Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars
U.S. Department of Education: The Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credit
Reorienting the HEA reauthorization to reflect what research-based knowledge says about what works
35th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2003-04 Academic year
A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access
Ready for tomorrow: Helping all students achieve secondary and postsecondary success
Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students
Easy money: How congress could increase federal student aid funding at no additional cost to taxpayers
Affordability of postsecondary education: Equity and adequacy across the 50 states
Global higher education rankings: Affordability and accessibility in comparative perspective
The student aid gauntlet: Making access to college simple and certain
Trends in student aid 2003
Pell Grant recipients in selective colleges and universities
Hope works: Student use of education tax credits.
Crisis at the core: Preparing all students for college and work
Annotated list of Pathways research, papers, reports, and other publications by focus area
Effects of students’ middle school and high school experiences on completion of the bachelor’s degree: How can school counselors make a difference?
The burden of borrowing: A report on the rising rates of student debt
Network news: Focus on finance policy, access, and affordability
The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality
Expanding college access: The impact of state finance strategies
It’s all relative: The role of parents in college financing and enrollment
Bridging the gap: Academic preparation and postsecondary success of first generation students
NCHEMS information center
Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty
Net price to family for dependent and independent undergraduate students by institutional type/control and parental income quartiles, 2004
Addressing student loan repayment burdens: Strengths and weaknesses of the current system
Missed opportunities revisited: New information on students who do not apply for financial aid
Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2004 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2003-04
Life after high school: Young people talk about their hopes and prospects
National college access network
CollegeCosts.info
Bridges to Success
College costs estimator service
Lumina Foundation focus
Profiles of Indiana and US colleges and universities
Do expenditures for student support services lead to demonstrable gains in student achievement
Family affiliation scholarships
Merit aid and college access
Involving parents
College guidance
Indiana family college savings program
Financial aid and postsecondary opportunity for nontraditional age pre-college students: The roles of information and education delivery systems
Taxing matters
Involving families in high school and college expectations
The impact of information and student aid on persistence: A review of research and discussion of experiments
Characteristics of undergraduate borrowers: 1999-2000
College Compass
The Education Network college planning site
Scholarship Help
Student financing of undergraduate education 2003-04, with a special analysis of the net price of attendance and federal education tax benefits
The Montgomery GI bill: Less than meets the eye
National association of state approving agencies
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- data and accountability systems
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- early outreach
Financial aid issues for students from low income families
Need versus merit: Focusing student financial aid for diversity
Changes in patterns of prices and financial aid
NDSFA: Recommendations for improving federal aid delivery
NDSFA: The financial aid partnership
2003-04 National postsecondary student aid study: Undergraduate financial aid estimates for twelve states
Early commitment financial aid programs - Do they increase college access?
The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students
National College Access Program Directory
The relationship between career development and educational development: A selected review of the literature
Career development interventions and academic self-efficacy: A pilot study
The feasibility of delivering aid for college through the tax system
Bridging the gap between high school and college
The economic promise of investing in high-quality preschool: Using early education to improve economic growth and the fiscal sustainability of states and the nation
Policy indicators for higher education WICHE states
Feasibility of a student unit record system within the integrated postsecondary education data system
Improving educational opportunties for students who work
A multi-institution analysis of the effects of campus-based financial aid on student persistence at public four-year institutions
Financial aid letter.com
Improving college readiness and success for all students: A joint responsibility between K-12 and postsecondary education
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
Financial aid and scholarship information for undocumented students
Transfer students: Planning your successful college transfer
EPAS®: A system that works
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school
Relationships between EPAS scores and college preparatory course work in high school
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Accelerated learning for all
College grants on a postcard: A proposal for simple and predictable federal student aid
Paying back, not giving back: Student debt's negative influence on public service career opportunities
Federal Pell Grants: Implications of increasing the maximum reward
Student loan forgiveness programs
Federal student aid need analysis: Background and selected simplification issues
College scholarships for Latino students: Are opportunities being missed?
It's not what you tell them, it's what they hear: College access marketing in your community
Sallie Mae: First in my family scholarship
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (English Version)
Destination university: A guide to college for students and their families (Spanish Version)
Academic pathway inventories
Do merit scholarships promote college access? Evidence from two states
Trends in college pricing 2006
Position paper on the reauthorization of higher education act
Promoting college access and success: A review of credit-based transition programs
Promising practices: School to career and postsecondary education for foster care youth
Talent Development High Schools
Georgia's HOPE scholarship and minority and low-income students: Program effects and proposed reforms
Study of the effect of the Talent Search program on secondary and postsecondary outcomes in Florida, Indiana and Texas
From college access to college success: College preparation and persistence of BPS graduates
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Closing the gaps by 2015: The Texas higher education plan
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - English
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - Spanish Version
Chicago Public Schools Department of Postsecondary Education
Status and trends in the education of racial and ethnic minorities
Postsecondary success begins with high school preparation
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
State grant aid and it's effects on students' college choices
Learning in a new key
A supporting role: How accreditors can help promote the success of community college students
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Postsecondary education tuition and required fees in Indiana: 2007-09
Setting the stage for new high schools: Municipal leadership in supporting high school alternatives
New directions in enhancing educational results: Policymakers' guide to restructuring student support resources to address barriers to learning (guidebook)
Validity of high-school grades in predicting student success beyond the freshman year: High-school record vs. standardized tests as indicators of four-year college outcomes
Trends in student aid 2007
The family: America's smallest school
The national articulation and transfer network
Student debt and the class of 2006
Project on student debt: State by state data
Federal Student Aid (FSA)
The ASCA national model
Education watch Indiana: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
Adventures in Education - Middle School (English and Spanish Versions)
Addressing the needs of adult learners
Digest of Education Statistics
Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score
What helps or hinders students' chances of success in college?
Policy recommendations for reauthorization of NCLB and HEA
Is college right for your child?: How to weigh the pros and cons
Break down the bill: What's it going to cost?
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Reaching Higher: Strategic Directions for Higher Education in Indiana
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Executive summary
Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college
Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis
Community college student outcomes: Limitations of the Intergrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and recommendations for improvement
Growing What Works Database
Charting a necessary path: The baseline report of public higher education systems in the Access to Success initiative
Developing a college-going culture in a middle school: A toolkit
Early warning systems that support students at risk of dropping out of high school
A coherent approach to high school improvement: A district and school self-assessment tool
Indiana's guide to paying for college: Step-by-step tips to help high school seniors apply for financial aid
The high cost of low educational performance: The long-run economic impact of improving PISA outcomes
Using Achieving the Dream to meet accreditation requirements: Principles and practices of student success
Pathway to the baccalaureate: How one community college is helping underprepared students succeed
Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino students
Connected by 25: Effective policy solutions for vulnerable youth
High hopes, big debts (class of 2008)
Citizenship now! Information for undocumented students
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
College Savings Foundation
Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instruction
Leadership to enhance college access and success
Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations
Toward more inclusive college savings plans: Sample state legislation
Reducing dropout rates through expanded learning opportunities
Career and college planning needs of ninth graders: As reported by ninth graders
Federal student aid formula: Cost-of-living adjustment could increase aid to a small percentage of students in high-cost areas but could also further complicate aid process
A clear and present danger to institutional and student success: A training model for embedding student loan default aversion within strategic enrollment management
Immigrant parents' investments in their children's post-secondary education
Ten Things you need to know about financial support for post-secondary students in Canada
Do Perceptions Matter Regarding the Costs and Benefits of a Post-Secondary Education?
Mind the access gap: Breaking down barriers to post-secondary education
The class of 2003 high school follow-up survey
Assessing Canada’s student aid need assessment policies
Deciding about post-secondary education: Hearing the voices of non-attendees
Showing them the money: The role of institutional financial aid policies and communication strategies in attracting low-income students
Report on student debt: Canadian college student survey and Canadian undergraduate survey consortium
The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada
The 2003 Ontario College Applicant Survey
Hopes & hurdles: California foster youth and college financial aid
FinAid: Income-based repayment
Summer Search
The public realities of private student loans
Financial aid in theory and practice
Selected states response to supporting high school English language learners
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
Helping students navigate the path to college: What high schools can do
What we must to do to create a system that prepares students for college success
The critical role of financial aid for first-time/full-time students enrolling at rural-serving community colleges
Loan forgiveness for public service employees
College Awareness Month: Resources for building a college-going culture
Parent and caregiver activities to create a college-going culture
The 2008 amendments to the Higher Education Act: Are we on the right track?
IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle
39th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid
Public institution and university system financial conditions survey
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
Transforming statewide high school assessment systems: A guide for state policymakers
Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards
Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't
Learning to reason and communicate in college: Initital report of findings from the CLA longitudinal study
The iron triangle: College presidents talk about costs, access and quality
Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
Montgomery GI bill - active duty
Trends in college spending: Where does the money come from? Where does it go?
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress
Community colleges: A route of upward economic mobility
Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today
Recent changes to eligibility requirements and additional efforts to promote awareness could increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant participation
Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10 (Spanish language version)
The feasibility of streamlining aid for college through the tax system
Grad nation: A guidebook to help cities tackle the dropout crisis
The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis
Official cohort default rates for schools
How America pays for college: Sallie Mae's national study of college students and parents
Test drive: Six states pilot better ways to measure and compare community college performance
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
What are they and how do I use them? Strategies and tools to increase and improve filing of the federal Hope and Lifetime Learning education tax credits by low-income filers
Back to College (Back2College)
An early alert system for remediation needs of entering community college students: Leveraging the California standards test
Financial aid myths
I-STEM Resource Network
Trends in student aid 2008
College tools for schools
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Student debt and the class of 2007
Response to Intervention: Resources for student service professionals
Access to success: Patterns of advanced placement participation in U.S. high schools
Loan forgivness for public service employees
Becoming credit-wise: What students (and you!) should know
Parent and student guide to federal tax benefits for tuition and fees for tax year 2007
Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10
Despite surging endowments, high-ranking universities and colleges show disappointing results in enrolling low-income students
Going2College.org
HomeworkSpot
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Denied: Community college students lack access to affordable loans
A profile of the Talent Search program: 1998-99
Best practices in student support services: A study of five exemplary sites
All Kinds of Minds
United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Scholarships
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
Out before the game begins: Hispanic leaders talk about what's needed to bring more Hispanic youngsters into science, technology and math professions
Science and mathematics education indicators
GEAR UP Resources Clearinghouse Homepage
Moving into students' spaces: The impact of academic advising on student engagement among undecided students
Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Award Program
Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Program
Ron Brown Scholar Program
In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
College bound? Don't get hooked by misleading financial aid offers
The Sallie Mae Fund
From aspirations to action: The role of middle school parents in making the dream of college a reality
Remediation in the community college: An evaluator's perspective
Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions
2007-08 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
Parent primer on career exploration
2006-2007 National directory of scholarships, internships, and fellowships for Latino youth
Financial aid pledges to reduce student debt (list of colleges and universities reducing or eliminating student loans for low-income families)
College planning resource directory