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A Predictive Model of Student Loan Default at a Two-Year Community College
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Brown, Chanda Denea – Online Submission, 2015
This study explored whether a predictive model of student loan default could be developed with data from an institution's three-year cohort default rate report. The study used borrower data provided by a large two-year community college. Independent variables under investigation included total undergraduate Stafford student loan debt, total number…
Descriptors: Models, Loan Default, Community Colleges, Undergraduate Students
Job Satisfaction, Performance and Tenure: A Predictive Study Based on a Model of an Organization and an Underutilized Statistical Technique
Saul, Peter N. – Organization and Administrative Sciences, 1977
Available from the Comparative Administration Research Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242; $15.00 annually. (IRT)
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Models, Multivariate Analysis, Organizational Effectiveness
Construing and Testing Explanations in a Complex Domain.
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Ramberg, Robert – Computers in Human Behavior, 1996
Discussion of explanations and knowledge representation within knowledge-based systems focuses on the development of an expert system for purification of proteins in a Swedish laboratory. Topics include domain conceptualization; a multiple-explanation construction model; a study of laboratory staff that investigated construed explanations; and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Expert Systems, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Representation
An Analysis of Electronic-Mail Usage.
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Fang, K. – Computers in Human Behavior, 1998
Describes a study that established a measure and model for use in predicting and explaining electronic mail systems as an example of computer-mediated communication technologies usage and choice. The results indicated that all of the eight hypotheses showed significant correlation between criterion and predictor variates, supported by different…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Correlation, Electronic Mail, Hypothesis Testing
Multilevel Models for Studying Organizational Transition Effects.
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Kang, Sang-Jin – 1997
Over the past 15 years a body of research has investigated organizational transitions in adolescent development. Researchers studying school transitions exclusively ask whether significant transition affects students' social and psychological development. To test the presence of transition effects, researchers have typically observed mean…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Equations (Mathematics), Factor Analysis, Grade 10
Perspectives on the Future of Educational Technology.
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Sullivan, Howard J.; And Others – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1993
Discusses a nationwide survey of university educational technology professionals and students that was conducted to determine their opinions about the future of the field. Areas addressed include educational technology and learning theory; instructional design models; technology and individualized instruction; technological advances; educational…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Opportunities, Futures (of Society)
Enterprise Return on a Training Investment.
Doucouliagos, Chris; Sgro, Pasquale – 2000
The return on investment (ROI) obtained by enterprises that invest in training was examined through case studies of seven Australian work organizations. The case study organizations included a government-owned transportation company, a privately owned company, a major nongovernmental charitable organization, a publicly listed corporation, and two…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Corporate Education, Corporations