HS MCC Technical Report March 2007 Office of Research, Evaluation and Assessment Metropolitan Community College 3200 Broadway Kansas City, MO 64111 Dual-Credit Students: An Analysis of Academic Performance -Technical Report- March 2007 Office of Research, Evaluation and Assessment Metropolitan Community College 3200 Broadway Kansas City, MO 64111 Prepared by: Melissa M. Giese And Jennifer R. Ebeling Preface This is the second dual-credit report produced by the Office of Research, Evaluation and Assessment. The present report examines dual credit students from three academic years; Summer 2003 to Spring 2004, Summer 2004 to Spring 2005, and Summer 2005 to Spring 2006. Students in each Academic Year are tracked for either two, five or eight semesters. This report examines demographics, academic success, and courses taken by dual-credit students. Additionally, further enrollment at MCC and the academic success of these students are examined. Comments regarding this project should be directed to its authors: Melissa M. Giese Research Analyst (816) 759-1300
[email protected] and Jennifer R. Ebeling Research Analyst (816) 759-1003
[email protected] Metropolitan Community College Office of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment 3200 Broadway Kansas City, MO 64111 Additional copies of this report can be obtained from our website: http://www.mcckc.edu/?qlinks=Research+Department Executive Summary ♦ Students comprising this study were obtained from three Dual-Credit Academic Years; 2003 to 2004, 2004 to 2005, and 2005 to 2006. Each group of students were tracked from two to eight semesters for each academic year. ♦ There averaged, 2,240 dual-credit students enrolled for each Academic Year.