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Lucas, John A. – 1983
A longitudinal study of full- and part-time credit students was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC), Palatine, Ill., to provide comparative information on student performance and achievement between 1967 and 1981. A random sample of 200 full-time and 200 part-time students entering WRHC each fall during this period was selected, and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attendance Patterns, Community Colleges, Continuing Education
Longitudinal Study of Performance of Students Entering Harper College, 1967-1980. Volume XI, No. 18.
Lucas, John A. – 1981
A longitudinal study of full- and part-time students was undertaken at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) to provide institutional data about student performance over time. Each fall from 1967 to 1980, transcripts of a random sample of 200 full-time and 200 part-time beginning credit students were analyzed to obtain data about students'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Community Colleges, Educational Attainment
Lucas, John A. – 1977
Analysis of the transcripts of 200 full-time and 200 part-time beginning traditional credit students randomly sampled from the population of students entering each fall from 1967 to 1975 at William Rainey Harper College indicated that: (1) overall student grade point average rose in direct relationship to changes in grading policy; (2) the grade…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Age, Community Colleges
Download full textLucas, John A.; Meltesen, Cal – 1994
A study conducted at William Rainey Harper College (Illinois) followed beginning full- and part-time traditional credit students over a 10-year period to observe their performance and achievement. Tabulations were made on various different fields and cross-tabulated by age, sex, race, and major programs. Study findings, based on the academic…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Graduates, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
PDF pending restorationLucas, John A.; Meltesen, Cal – 1991
A longitudinal study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College, in Palatine, Illinois, to observe the performance and achievement of all credit students entering the college from fall 1979 through fall 1989. Academic records were analyzed for 14,908 full-time and 30,082 part-time students. Study findings included the following: (1) over the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Age, College Transfer Students
Lucas, John A.; Meltesen, Cal – 1994
A longitudinal study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (Illinois) to observe the performance and achievement of all credit students entering the college from fall 1983 through fall 1993. Study findings included the following: (1) 77% of full-time students returned to school at a later date for 1 year or more; (2) the 77% retention…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Black Students
