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Aulck, Lovenoor; Nambi, Dev; Velagapudi, Nishant; Blumenstock, Joshua; West, Jevin – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
Each year, roughly 30% of first-year students at US baccalaureate institutions do not return for their second year and billions of dollars are spent educating these students. Yet, little quantitative research has analyzed the causes and possible remedies for student attrition. What's more, most of the previous attempts to model attrition at…
Descriptors: Student Records, Registrars (School), Predictor Variables, Undergraduate Students
DesJardins, Stephen L.; And Others – 1994
Rather than studying the structural paths through which variables affect student persistence in education, this paper offers a reduced form model that focuses on precollege, demographic, and certain current achievement and financial aid variables. This approach does not specify structural paths, but it does have the advantage of requiring only…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Causal Models, College Students, Dropouts
Knight, William E. – 1994
This study utilizes student enrollment data often available to institutional researchers in order to predict and explain time to degree. The population for the study included all 1992 bachelors degree graduates (n=868) of a state-supported comprehensive university in the Southeast. Block multiple regression based upon Astin's…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Bachelors Degrees, College Environment, College Graduates