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Fordyce, Hugh – Research Report, 1988
Issues concerning the collection and uses of data about college student retention are considered. Some of the documented findings about student retention in U.S. colleges is summarized, with attention to both national data and data for colleges belonging to the United Negro College Fund. Difficulties in obtaining useful retention data are…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Colleges, College Students, Data Collection
Kraetsch, Gayla A. – 1979
Two quantitative enrollment projection techniques and the methods used by researchers at the Ohio Board of Regents (OBR) are discussed. Two quantitative approaches that are typically used for enrollment projections are curve-fitting techniques and causal models. Many state forecasters use curve-fitting techniques, a popular approach because only…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Collection, Demography, Enrollment Projections