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Download full textBailey, Thomas; Calcagno, Juan Carlos; Jenkins, Davis; Leinbach, Timothy; Kienzl, Gregory – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2005
Policymakers, educators, and researchers recognize the importance of community colleges as open door institutions that provide a wide range of students with access to college. At the same time, competing demands for the state funds that would support community colleges have resulted in reduced public allocations and higher student tuition fees.…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Graduation Rate, Educational Policy, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedDouglas, Stratford; Sulock, Joseph – Journal of Economic Education, 1995
Discusses problems of sample selection in explaining student performance in economics classes. Reports on a study of student performance correlated with class attendance, course dropouts, and homework. Concludes that any researcher gathering data about instructional effectiveness must account for students who drop the class. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Attendance Patterns, Dropouts
