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Fanguy, Ronnie; Giguette, Ray; Richard, Lori – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2022
Higher education institutions face increased pressure from government and external funding sources to retain and graduate their students each year. Nationally, the federal government's IPEDS report defines the standard measure of an institution's retention and graduation success. When universities attempt to adapt this institutional standard to…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Majors (Students), Graduation Rate, Evaluation Methods
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2016
This work asks one simple question: "how reliable is the method used by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) to estimate projected rates of VET program completion?" In other words, how well do early projections align with actual completion rates some years later? Completion rates are simple to calculate with a…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Graduation Rate, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
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Hurtado, Sylvia; Pryor, John H. – College and University, 2011
The primary users of the current college ranking systems do not seem to be high-school students and families, but college presidents, board members, and development officers. As structured, the commercial ranking systems imply a precision that is not corroborated by research on what matters in college, nor can college quality be accurately summed…
Descriptors: College Choice, Educational Quality, Program Effectiveness, School Effectiveness
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Reynolds, Pauline J.; Gross, Jacob P. K.; Millard, Bill; Pattengale, Jerry – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
The vast amount of research conducted on student persistence over the past thirty years is indicative of the continuing and evolving interest in retention of students. Framed through multiple perspectives, this retention research is driven by the fact that more students leave institutions without graduating, year after year. Much more than an…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Graduation Rate, Persistence, School Holding Power
Chaplin, Duncan; Klasik, Daniel – Education Working Paper Archive, 2006
Each year our college system gives twice as many bachelor's degrees (BAs) to African American females as males. Large gender gaps favoring women also exist for other groups. Indeed, on average our college system gives 35% more BAs to females than males across all racial and ethnic groups. Traditional explanations for this pattern have focused on…
Descriptors: High Schools, Private Schools, Females, Graduation Rate
Hoagland, Steven R. – Online Submission, 2006
Institutional accountability for performance and quality is an evolving topic with immeasurable appeal. Data and sources are abundant, but validated measures and meaningful information are scarce. While pursuing an approach centered on construct validity, this study transforms complex data into useful information. Correlation analysis reveals…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Reputation, Consumer Education, Graduation