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Brown, Chanda Denea – Online Submission, 2015
This study explored whether a predictive model of student loan default could be developed with data from an institution's three-year cohort default rate report. The study used borrower data provided by a large two-year community college. Independent variables under investigation included total undergraduate Stafford student loan debt, total number…
Descriptors: Models, Loan Default, Community Colleges, Undergraduate Students
Chaney, Bradford W. – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2010
This is the final report of the National Evaluation of Student Support Services (SSS). SSS is one of eight federally funded grant programs that are administered as part of the Federal TRIO Programs within the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The SSS program, in particular, focuses on students while they are enrolled in college. In general, SSS…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grants, College Outcomes Assessment, Outcomes of Education
Nokelainen, Petri; Ruohotie, Pekka – 2000
This examination of data selection preceding multivariate analysis compares results grained with "gentle" and "draconian" variable elimination. To acquire comparable results, two stages of statistical exploration into an integrated model of motivation, learning strategies, and quality of teaching were used. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Data Collection, Employees, Foreign Countries
Jarjoura, David; Brennan, Robert L. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1983
Multivariate generalizability techniques are used to bridge the gap between psychometric constraints and the tables of specifications needed in test development. Techniques are illustrated with results from the American College Testing Assessment Program. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Mathematical Models, Multivariate Analysis, Test Construction
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Baker, Bruce D.; Richards, Craig E. – Economics of Education Review, 1999
Applies neural network methods for forecasting 1991-95 per-pupil expenditures in U.S. public elementary and secondary schools. Forecasting models included the National Center for Education Statistics' multivariate regression model and three neural architectures. Regarding prediction accuracy, neural network results were comparable or superior to…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Econometrics, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
Kang, Sang-Jin – 1997
Over the past 15 years a body of research has investigated organizational transitions in adolescent development. Researchers studying school transitions exclusively ask whether significant transition affects students' social and psychological development. To test the presence of transition effects, researchers have typically observed mean…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Equations (Mathematics), Factor Analysis, Grade 10