TY - JOUR A1 - Pace Miles, Katharine AU - Craigo, Leslie AU - Gonzalez-Frey, Selenid T1 - Investigating Writing Performance and Institutional Supports Among Teacher Candidates Who Transferred from Community Colleges Y1 - 2018 SN - 2157-6254 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/7778 AB - To provide a snapshot of the skills of community college students as compared to senior college students, this study investigated writing performance and college experience of initial two-year enrolled (community college transfer students, n = 17) versus initial four-year enrolled students (n = 12) in a teacher preparation program. Results of independent samples t-tests on in-class writing, research paper, and final score were non-significant (p =.28, p = .54, p = .15, respectively) indicating that two-year and four-year start teacher candidates did not differ in their performance on these assignments nor overall in the course. Qualitative data indicated that while both two- and four-year start teacher candidates had a positive writing identity during their first two years of college, the personal support that two-year starts had may be what enabled them to succeed and have a positive writing identity once they transferred to a four-year college. Implications regarding how to coordinate supports for transfer student teacher candidates will be discussed, as this is the very population of diverse students needed as PreK-12 teachers. KW - Alfabetización KW - Formación profesional KW - Alfabetización KW - Formación de docentes LA - eng ER -