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Yu, Hongwei; Campbell, Dale; Mendoza, Pilar – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Prior research studies associated the employment of part-time faculty with student degree and/or certificate completion (Benjamin, 2002; Ehrenberg & Zhang, 2005; Jacoby, 2006; Leslie & Gappa, 2002; Umbach, 2008; Umbach & Wawrzynski, 2005). To date, institutional-level data have been utilized to investigate whether such employment…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation, Associate Degrees, Certification
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Wu, Mei-Jiun – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: Recently emerged with the implementation of the California's Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 and the NCLB Act of 2001 is an increase in the number of education production function studies estimating the relationship between educational inputs and APIs. While the majority of past research on California school…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Student Characteristics, Demography, Educational Resources
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Cruce, Ty M. – Research in Higher Education, 2009
This methodological note illustrates how a commonly used calculation of the Delta-p statistic is inappropriate for categorical independent variables, and this note provides users of logistic regression with a revised calculation of the Delta-p statistic that is more meaningful when studying the differences in the predicted probability of an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Educational Research, Research Methodology
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Wang, Xueli – Research in Higher Education, 2009
Studying factors that predict bachelor's degree attainment has generated considerable empirical interest over the past few decades. Relatively few studies, however, have focused on community college transfer students and the unique factors that predict their educational outcomes. Utilizing the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 and…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Bachelors Degrees, Academic Persistence, Longitudinal Studies
Case, Kimberly Fay – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The theory of student involvement (Astin, 1984) acknowledges that as students devote sufficient time and energy to educationally purposeful activities, they can expect to make desirable gains throughout the college years. Participation in campus clubs and organizations is one form of involvement found to be associated with a host of learning and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Design, Gender Differences, College Athletics
Thomas, Emily; Reznik, Gayle; Dawes, William – 1999
This paper argues that a typical use of regression models to target student recruitment efforts is theoretically unsound and may therefore be operationally inefficient. It presents results from a study using a predictive model to identify the prospective students on whom recruitment efforts have the greatest impact. The model uses four kinds of…
Descriptors: College Choice, Decision Making, Higher Education, Institutional Research
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Astin, Alexander W. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2006
It has been more than a decade since the U.S. Congress enacted the "Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act," which requires colleges and universities to make public their six-year degree completion rates. Based on the "Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act," prospective students and their parents are being encouraged to make…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, School Holding Power, Regression (Statistics), Time to Degree
Brozovsky, Paul V.; McLaughlin, Gerald W. – 1995
Considerations in conducting a study of salary equity for administrative faculty are addressed. The focus is whether there is a systematic difference in salary of administrative faculty based on race, sex, or age after all legitimate factors are removed. After defining the study population, attention is directed to the study model and research…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, College Faculty, Comparable Worth
Gebel, Melinda A. – 1995
The academic progress of minority and nonminority community college transfer students toward baccalaureate degree completion was studied using term-by-term longitudinal files. The study sample consisted of 1,179 students entering community college in fall 1985 as first-time students and transferring to the university by 1991, and 990 students…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Bachelors Degrees, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Sadler, William E.; Cohen, Frederic L.; Kockesen, Levent – 1997
This paper describes a methodology used in an on-going retention study at New York University (NYU) to identify a series of easily measured factors affecting student departure decisions. Three logistic regression models for predicting student retention were developed, each containing data available at three distinct times during the first…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Dropouts, High Risk Students