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Direct linkLuo, Mingchu; Williams, James E. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2013
Enrollment practitioners commonly discuss the effect of geographic factors on retention at rural or small-city institutions. This study examined the correlations between geographic characteristics of first-year college students' home location and their retention to the second year at a university located in a small city. The dimension of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Academic Persistence, Small Schools
Download full textKim, YoungKoung Rachel – College Board, 2009
Presented at the national conference for AERA (American Educational Research Association) in April 2009. The large variability of SAT taker population across states makes state-by-state comparisons of the SAT scores challenging. Using a mixture modeling approach, therefore, the current study presents a method of identifying subpopulations in terms…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Scores, Comparative Analysis, College Entrance Examinations
Wang, Tianyou; Kolen, Michael J. – 1994
In this paper a quadratic curve equating method for different test forms under a random-group data-collection design is proposed. Procedures for implementing this method and related issues are described and discussed. The quadratic-curve method was evaluated with real test data (from two 30-item subtests for a professional licensure examination…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Equated Scores, Goodness of Fit
