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Direct linkBeck, Hall P.; Davidson, William B. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2015
This investigation sought to determine when colleges should conduct assessments to identify first-year students at risk of dropping out. Thirty-five variables were used to predict the persistence of 2,024 first-year students from four universities in the southeastern United States. The predictors were subdivided into groups according to when they…
Descriptors: College Students, College Freshmen, Higher Education, School Holding Power
Peer reviewedWhitney, Douglas R.; Leahy, Robert D. – College and University, 1975
At the University of Iowa, a project utilizing pre-admissions information about students has a potential for future recruitment of students. (PG)
Descriptors: Admission (School), College Applicants, College Freshmen, Educational Supply
Download full textReckase, Mark D. – 1997
This paper explores what a responsible test developer would do to support the consequential validity of a test early in the development process, and how the consequential validity of the program should be monitored and addressed during the life of the program. To illustrate the issues concretely, the validity of the American College Testing…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High School Students, High Schools, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPedrini, Bonnie C.; Pedrini, D. T. – College Student Journal, 1977
The study investigated effectiveness of an experimental program for disadvantaged students. It was contrasted to a control program and to the freshman population relating sex, race, financial aid, special instruction, general achievement/aptitude, and attrition/persistence with GPA. Experimental courses elevate GPAs; regular courses do not.…
Descriptors: College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade Point Average, Higher Education
Turner, James S.; Shelton, Aubrey W. – 1994
In 1948 the Mississippi State University College of Education underwent a major revamping of the undergraduate program. Prior to new reforms, data were gathered on elementary education majors to study the effects of the reforms. In order to compare a variety of data from two years prior to 1984 (before actual changes) with data of those graduating…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Education Majors, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Testa, Alec M. – DATAWave, 1996
The DATAWave is a bi-weekly publication of the Assessment Resource Office (ARO) at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU). Its purpose is to inform the campus community and broader constituencies on assessment issues and practices at ENMU. The seven issues of winter and spring 1996 cover the following topics: (1) a preview of ARO activities,…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Assessment, Educational Planning, Educational Research
