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Seastrom, Marilyn M.; Chapman, Chris; Stillwell, Robert; McGrath, Daniel; Peltola, Pia; Dinkes, Rachel; Xu, Zeyu – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
The first volume of this report examines the existing measures of high school completion and the newly proposed proxy measures. This includes a description of the computational formulas, the data required for each indicator, the assumptions underlying each formula, the strengths and weaknesses of each indicator relative to a true cohort on-time…
Descriptors: Student Records, Graduation Rate, Educational Indicators, Well Being
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Seastrom, Marilyn; Hoffman, Lee; Chapman, Chris; Stillwell, Robert – National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
The averaged freshman graduation rate provides an estimate of the percentage of high school students who graduate on time. The rate uses aggregate student enrollment data to estimate the size of an incoming freshman class and aggregate counts of the number of diplomas awarded 4 years later. The incoming freshman class size is estimated by summing…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Graduation Rate, High School Graduates, Public Schools