The Arizona College Access Network (AzCAN), a program of College Success Arizona, is proud to announce that 25
education leaders from across the state have
completed the College Access Professional (CAP) certificate program, designed to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to help Arizona students succeed
beyond high school.
The dropout rate and graduation rate do not total 100 percent because some students
complete high school through means other than a
high school diploma (e.g., students with a GED, students with disabilities who have participated in alternative assessment, or students who have transferred into
higher education or an applied technology college without graduating
high school) and some special
education students are retained in
high school beyond their senior year.
They will give families measures of
school performance that extend
beyond reading and math: telling them how students are doing in science and career and vocational
education, for example, and what percentage of
high -
schoolers are successfully
completing Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate coursework.
No significant differences between participants who
completed all interviews and those not present for at least one assessment were found for minority status (minority vs. majority), Χ 2 [1, N = 386] = 0.72, p = 0.40, φ = 0.04), gender, Χ 2 [1, N = 387] = 1.26, p = 0.26, φ = 0.06, age, F [1, 386] = 0.04, p = 0.84, d = 0.03, parental
education (some
high school or
high school graduate, technical
school or some college, college degree or
beyond), Χ 2 [2, N = 387] = 1.19, p = 0.55, φ = 0.05, marital status (caregiver married vs. not married), Χ 2 [1, N = 387] = 2.48, p = 0.12, φ = 0.08, family income, F [1, 361] = 1.29, p = 0.26, d = 0.18, lifetime alcohol, Χ 2 [1, N = 387] = 1.82, p = 0.18, φ = 0.07 or cigarette use Χ 2 [1, N = 387] = 0.35, p = 0.55, φ = 0.03, internalizing problems, F [1, 386] = 2.67, p = 0.10, d = 0.24, or externalizing problems, F [1, 386] = 3.74, p = 0.05, d = 0.27.