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ERIC Number: ED322809
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1989-Mar-10
Pages: 17
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Available Date: N/A
Retention and Attrition of Declared Freshman (Discussion Item).
Indiana State Commission for Higher Education, Indianapolis.
The study reported in this document tracked a cohort of Indiana freshmen (about 47,000) with reported majors and categorized them as associate and baccalaureate, resident and nonresident, and part-time and full-time students. The objective to determine how these students fared in the course of the 4 years examined (fiscal years 1985-88). Included in the findings for associate students were: 26 percent of associate students were full-time and only 12 percent had dropped out, half the part-time associates dropped out, and cumulative grade-point averages for part-time students were slightly higher than for full-time students. Findings for baccalaureate students included the facts that 61 percent were full-time, of whom only 8 percent dropped out, while nearly 40 percent of the part-time students dropped out. About half of the students in the study were still in school at the study's completion; thus it was determined that it was too early to make a final assessment on this class. (GLR)
Publication Type: Reports - General; Information Analyses
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Researchers; Administrators; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Indiana State Commission for Higher Education, Indianapolis.
Identifiers - Location: Indiana
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Author Affiliations: N/A