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Bahr, Peter Riley; Bielby, Rob; House, Emily – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2011
One useful and increasingly popular method of classifying students is known commonly as cluster analysis. The variety of techniques that comprise the cluster analytic family are intended to sort observations (for example, students) within a data set into subsets (clusters) that share similar characteristics and differ in meaningful ways from other…
Descriptors: College Students, Classification, Multivariate Analysis, Community Colleges
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Saenz, Victor B.; Hatch, Deryl; Bukoski, Beth E.; Kim, Suyun; Lee, Kye-hyoung; Valdez, Patrick – Community College Review, 2011
This study employs survey data from the Center for Community College Student Engagement to examine the similarities and differences that exist across student-level domains in terms of student engagement in community colleges. In total, the sample used in the analysis pools data from 663 community colleges and includes more than 320,000 students.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Community Colleges, Classification, Multivariate Analysis