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Thomas Mgonja; Francisco Robles – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2024
Completion of remedial mathematics has been identified as one of the keys to college success. However, completion rates in remedial mathematics have been low and are of much debate across America. This study leverages machine learning techniques in trying to predict and understand completion rates in remedial mathematics. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Remedial Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement, Graduation Rate
Glazer, Randy – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Employee turnover continues to be discussed as an outcome in Human Resources (HR), but comparatively few studies have examined the relationship between turnover as the independent variable and institutional outcomes. Although the call to HR practitioners has often been made over the past 20 years regarding the importance of tying HR programs and…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Employees, Correlation, Human Resources
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Chatterjee, Ayona; Marachi, Christine; Natekar, Shruti; Rai, Chinki; Yeung, Fanny – College Student Journal, 2018
Improving graduation rates is one of the biggest missions in many universities across the country and it is surely the case on the campus of this institution. The work here presents a statistical tool box to use early academic performance as a predictor for graduation with logistic regression and machine learning techniques. The methods described…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Student Characteristics, Graduation, Probability
Ong, Adrian; Circelli, Michelle – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2018
People participate in vocational education and training (VET) for a variety of reasons and at different stages of their life. Some undertake VET to gain the vocational skills necessary to enter the labour market for the first time, while others enter in order to upgrade existing skills, learn new ones, or simply for personal interest. Successful…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Vocational Education, Graduation Rate, Performance Factors
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Pursel, B. K.; Zhang, L.; Jablokow, K. W.; Choi, G. W.; Velegol, D. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2016
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) continue to appear across the higher education landscape, originating from many institutions in the USA and around the world. MOOCs typically have low completion rates, at least when compared with traditional courses, as this course delivery model is very different from traditional, fee-based models, such as…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Graduation Rate, Delivery Systems, Models
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Zwolak, Justyna P.; Dou, Remy; Williams, Eric A.; Brewe, Eric – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Increasing student retention (successfully finishing a particular course) and persistence (continuing through a sequence of courses or the major area of study) is currently a major challenge for universities. While students' academic and social integration into an institution seems to be vital for student retention, research into the effect of…
Descriptors: Physics, Introductory Courses, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
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Coleman, Chad; Baker, Ryan S.; Stephenson, Shonte – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
Determining which students are at risk of poorer outcomes -- such as dropping out, failing classes, or decreasing standardized examination scores -- has become an important area of research and practice in both K-12 and higher education. The detectors produced from this type of predictive modeling research are increasingly used in early warning…
Descriptors: Prediction, At Risk Students, Predictor Variables, Elementary Secondary Education
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Huang, Liuli; Roche, Lahna R.; Kennedy, Eugene; Brocato, Melissa B. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Many researchers have explored the relationships between the likelihood of graduating from college and demographic and pre-college factors such as gender, race/ethnicity, high school grade point average (GPA), and standardized test scores. However, additional factors such as a student's college major, home address, or use of learning support in…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Predictor Variables, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
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Izumi, Masashi; Shen, Jianping; Xia, Jiangang – Education and Urban Society, 2015
In this study we investigated determinants of the graduation rate of public alternative schools by analyzing the most recent, nationally representative data from Schools and Staffing Survey 2007-2008. Based on the literature, we built a series of three regression models via successive block entry, predicting the graduate rate first by (a) student…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Public Schools, Graduation Rate, Predictor Variables
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Dorius, Shawn F.; Tandberg, David A.; Cram, Bridgette – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
This study leverages human capital theory to identify the correlates of expected returns on investment in higher education at the level of institutions. We leverage estimates of average ROI in post-secondary education among more than 400 baccalaureate degree conferring colleges and universities to understand the correlates of a relatively new…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Institutional Characteristics, Human Capital
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Stevenson, Adam – Education Economics, 2016
This paper estimates the monetary return to quality in US graduate education, controlling for cognitive ability and self-selection across award level, program quality, and field-of-study. In most program types, I cannot reject the hypothesis of no returns to either degree completion or program quality. Important exceptions include master's…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Educational Quality, Cognitive Ability, Specialization
Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2021
This year's study is the 35th in a series of annual reports on trends in dropout and attrition rates in Texas public schools. The 2019-20 study builds on a series of studies by the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) that track the number and percent of students in Texas who are lost from public school enrollment prior to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Student Attrition, Dropout Rate, Educational Trends
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Savage, Hallie; Raehsler, Rod D.; Fiedor, Joseph – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2014
One of the most important issues in any educational environment is identifying factors that promote academic success. A plethora of research on such factors exists across most academic fields, involving a wide range of student demographics, and the definition of student success varies across the range of studies published. The analysis in this…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Performance Factors, Graduation Rate, Regression (Statistics)
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Mertes, Scott J.; Hoover, Richard E. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Retention is a complex issue of great importance to community colleges. Several retention models have been developed to help explain this phenomenon. However, these models typically have used four-year college and university environments to build their foundations. Several researchers have attempted to identify predictor variables using…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Predictor Variables, College Freshmen, Academic Persistence
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Raju, Dheeraj; Schumacker, Randall – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2015
The study used earliest available student data from a flagship university in the southeast United States to build data mining models like logistic regression with different variable selection methods, decision trees, and neural networks to explore important student characteristics associated with retention leading to graduation. The decision tree…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Higher Education, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence
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