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Direct linkPike, Gary R.; Graunke, Steven S. – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Despite being criticized as unrepresentative and misleading, retention and graduation rates are an important part of college-search web sites and accountability systems, and they frequently have been used as indicators of institutional quality and effectiveness in educational research. Retention and graduation rates are often compared over time…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Cohort Analysis, Student Characteristics, Graduation Rate
Download full textMao, Michael X.; And Others – 1997
The magnitude of student mobility was examined in the Texas public schools by reporting how many students are moving, when and where they are moving, and who is moving, and by clarifying the relationships between mobility and academic performance at the individual student, campus, and district levels. While the study's primary focus was on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Cohort Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged
Neblock, Carl S. – 1996
The use of the cohort-survival method for projecting student enrollments is widely known in educational finance literature; however, the limited information provided by the model impedes planners in making future operational decisions. The cohort-survival method employs historical rates of usage to predict future patterns of usage and produces a…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Bilingual Education, Cohort Analysis, Compensatory Education
Doolittle, Allen E. – 1981
Bayesian data analytic procedures were used to assess the effects of a new undergraudate advising program designed to focus on students who do not initially declare a major field of study. Past research has shown that these students tend to graduate at a low rate, relative to those who do declare majors. It was hypothesized that these students…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Bayesian Statistics
Gutierrez-Marquez, Antonio – 1994
In an effort to obtain a more complete picture of student outcomes, the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) undertook a 6-year study of the academic experiences of 10,777 students who entered in fall 1986 with no previous college experience. In addition to basic data on student characteristics, the study gathered information on student persistence in…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Cohort Analysis, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Ironside, Ellen M. – 1979
Factors that influence voluntary withdrawal from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are investigated. A survey based on a cohort of students admitted for the first time in fall 1977 was conducted with a response rate of approximately 50 percent. Major and minor reasons for not returning to the university are tabulated for males and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Blacks, Cohort Analysis, College Environment
