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Peer reviewedShaw, Robert C.; Alspaugh, John; Wat-Aksorn, Patchara – ERS Spectrum, 1997
Reviews three special-purpose forecasting methods (population-ratio techniques, Bell Telephone method, method of analogy, and multiple-factor method) and three methods of universal applicability (the cohort-survival, percentage- survival, and law-of-growth methods) to help administrators grasp enrollment forecasting technicalities. A comparison…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Projections, Measurement Techniques
