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Download full textOwin, Brian R. – 2002
The purpose of this study was to examine the proportion of students in the cohort class of 2000 who completed Arizona high school graduation requirements within 4 years. The cohort class of 2000 comprises students who entered 9th grade in fall of the 1996-1997 school year, and were expected to graduate from 12th grade by the end of the 1999-2000…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Dropouts, Equivalency Tests, Graduation Rate
Owin, Brian R. – 2002
The purpose of this study was to examine the proportion of students in the cohort class of 2001 who completed Arizona high school graduation requirements within 4 years. The cohort class of 2001 comprises students who entered 9th grade in fall of the 1997-1998 school year, and were expected to graduate from 12th grade by the end of the 2000-2001…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Dropouts, Equivalency Tests, Graduation Rate
Brigman, S. Leellen; And Others – 1982
The graduation rates of the fall semester freshman classes that entered the Indiana University Bloomington (IU) campus between 1970-1977 (excluding 1973) were examined, and the results of a 1975 survey were extended. In addition, the current analysis examines the graduation rate of each class in relation to student race and sex, and new…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis
Smyth, Frederick L.; McArdle, John J. – 2002
Emphasizing graduation rate, W. Bowen and D. Bok (1998) argue that race-sensitive admission at selective colleges enhances the educational attainment of underrepresented minority students, and that the effect increases with college selectivity. Focusing on graduation in science, however, R. Elliott and colleagues (1995) conclude that: (1)…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Students, Ethnicity, Graduation Rate
Peer reviewedGoldman, Bert A.; Blackwell, Karen M.; Beach, Sonja S. – Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2003
Tracked five cohorts of first-year students for 6 years to determine how many, by gender and race, were academically suspended, how many of those returned, and of those who returned, how many graduated. Found that a greater percentage of males than females and Black than White students were academically suspended. Minority males were the most…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Black Students, College Freshmen, Graduation Rate
PDF pending restorationBattaglini, Janis K. – 2003
This report contains information on the retention and graduation patterns of full-time undergraduates at Maryland's public four-year colleges and universities from 1981 to 2001. It looks at the number and percentage of students who were retained at their original public four-year campus and those who graduated from any senior public college or…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Attendance, College Graduates, Ethnic Groups
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2003
In 1970, 55 percent of the US population over age 25 had completed high school or some college and 11 percent had completed 4 or more years of college; by 1999, those figures had reached 83 percent and 25 percent, respectively. A comparison between 1982 and 1992 high school seniors found more completing some postsecondary credits (from 53 percent…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees
