ERIC Number: EJ1442842
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Nov
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-1521-0251
EISSN: EISSN-1541-4167
Profiles of Undergraduate Completers: Deconstructing the Heterogeneity
Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, v26 n3 p794-815 2024
A person-centered approach identified five empirically unobserved student profiles of first-time full-time university students who shared similar academic patterns, performance measures, and demographic characteristics. "Honors" and "Flourishing" classes tended to graduate within 6 years of attempting their first-college mathematics course, earned a high grade in that course, and made continued degree progress. The "Flourishing" class had lower semester and first-college mathematics GPAs than the "Honors" class but higher GPAs than the "Tenacious" class. Placement in remedial mathematics alone did not determine class membership. The "Honors" class had an overrepresentation of White women, and an underrepresentation of Black men. Hispanic students were most prevalent in the "Flourishing" group while Black men were more prevalent in the "Tenacious" group. As a whole, men fared worse on outcomes than women.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Profiles, Full Time Students, Student Characteristics, Demography, Educational Attainment, Public Colleges, Research Universities, Academic Achievement
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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