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Peer reviewedBarrow, John C. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1980
A potentially useful program-evaluation approach obtains information from program dropouts. This method was applied to university students who dropped out of four developmental programs. Results indicate many students recognize the value of the program for others, yet resist participating themselves. This approach was a useful supplementary…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Programs, Dropout Research, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedPedrini, Bonnie C.; Pedrini, D. T. – Reading Improvement, 1978
Examines the relation of race, sex, financial aid, grades, and American College Test composite scores to college freshman attrition/persistence (dropping out vs continued enrollment). (RL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Characteristics
Download full textSeago, Jean Ann; Spetz, Joanne – California Policy Research Center, University of California at Berkeley, 2003
California is experiencing a critical shortage of nurses -- a shortage that is likely to increase in the coming years (Coffman & Spetz, 1999). Although much of the nation is also experiencing similar shortages, California's shortage is more severe than that of any other state in the nation (Bureau of Health Professions, 2002). Most analyses of…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Health Occupations, Academic Achievement, Public Health
Nitzke, Joseph; Wacker, Mary Ellen – 2001
This paper reports on the first phase of a three-part study meant to provide information, in an expanded context, for decisions related to marketing communications at Western Iowa Tech Community College (WITCC). The Marketing Department proposed focus groups to examine dropouts, students who are admitted but do not enroll, and business persons in…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Dropout Research
Burley, Hansel – 1994
To obtain a quantitative meta-analysis of studies addressing the effects of community college Developmental Studies Programs (DSPs) on students enrolled in higher education, an analysis was undertaken of a sample of studies culled from journal articles, dissertations, unpublished works found in ERIC, and published and unpublished proceedings of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, College Preparation, College Students
Muffo, John A., Ed.; McLaughlin, Gerald W., Ed. – 1987
The state-of-the-art in 10 areas of institutional research is considered in this collection of 10 articles. Of concern are: student attrition and retention, academic program evaluation, financial issues and economic impacts of higher education, institutional self-study and regional accreditation, peer studies of institutions, statistical packages…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Budgeting, College Programs, Comparative Analysis
Garber, Herbert; Schell, Robert E. – 1977
Attrition rates at the State University of New York at Oswego are investigated in this paper. In 1975-76 51 percent of the students who entered as freshmen failed to graduate. The major objective of the study was to isolate and describe the differences that exist in the rates and modes of attrition among students who entered the college as…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Brown, Charles I., Ed. – 1980
Proceedings of the 1980 meeting of the North Carolina Association for Institutional Research, which focused on the role of institutional research in institutional governance, are presented. Contents are as follows: "The Role of Institutional Research in Academic Program Evaluation: An Overview" (Dennis R. Hengstler); "The Role of Institutional…
Descriptors: Alumni, Budgeting, College Administration, College Faculty
