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Predicting Graduation Rates at 4-Year Broad Access Institutions Using a Bayesian Modeling Approach
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Crisp, Gloria; Doran, Erin; Salis Reyes, Nicole A. – Research in Higher Education, 2018
This study models graduation rates at 4-year broad access institutions (BAIs). We examine the student body, structural-demographic, and financial characteristics that best predict 6-year graduation rates across two time periods (2008-2009 and 2014-2015). A Bayesian model averaging approach is utilized to account for uncertainty in variable…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Predictor Variables, Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics
When Do Honors Programs Make the Grade? Conditional Effects on College Satisfaction, Achievement, Retention, and Graduation
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Bowman, Nicholas A.; Culver, KC – Research in Higher Education, 2018
Many people within and outside of higher education view honors programs as providing meaningful academic experiences that promote learning and growth for high-achieving students. To date, the research exploring the link between honors participation and college grades and retention has obtained mixed results; some of the seemingly conflicting…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Academic Achievement, Probability, Undergraduate Students
Examining the Effects of Institutional and Cohort Characteristics on Retention Rates
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Pike, Gary R.; Graunke, Steven S. – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Despite being criticized as unrepresentative and misleading, retention and graduation rates are an important part of college-search web sites and accountability systems, and they frequently have been used as indicators of institutional quality and effectiveness in educational research. Retention and graduation rates are often compared over time…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Cohort Analysis, Student Characteristics, Graduation Rate
Roads to Success in the Belgian French Community's Higher Education System: Predictors of Dropout and Degree Completion at the Université Libre De Bruxelles
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Arias Ortiz, Elena; Dehon, Catherine – Research in Higher Education, 2013
In this paper we study the factors that influence both dropout and (4-year) degree completion throughout university by applying the set of discrete-time methods for competing risks in event history analysis, as described in Scott and Kennedy (2005). In the French-speaking Belgian community, participation rates are very high given that higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Predictor Variables, Dropouts
The Interaction of Student and Program Variables for the Purpose of Developing a Model for Predicting Graduation from Graduate Programs Over a 10-Year Period
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Cook, Marlene M.; Swanson, Austin – Research in Higher Education, 1978
Focus is on two areas: (1) the factors available to the selection committee when students apply for admission into graduate programs, and (2) those factors emerging after admission, resulting from students' meeting program-imposed requirements for graduation. Program variables are shown to be more important than admission variables. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Doctoral Programs, Factor Analysis, Graduate Students
Model Mis-Specification in Assessing the Impact of Financial Aid on Academic Outcomes
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Alon, Sigal – Research in Higher Education, 2005
The focus of the paper is the development of a novel conceptual framework that aims to remedy a critical mis-specification in prior research on the impact of financial aid on academic outcomes: the blending of the effect of aid eligibility with the influence of aid amounts on academic outcomes. To assess the impact of aid amounts received on…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Outcomes of Education, Graduation, Predictor Variables