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Variables Involved in Withdrawal During the First Two Years of College: Preliminary Findings from The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972
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Peng, Samuel S.; Fetters, William B. – American Educational Research Journal, 1978
Data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 indicate that women are more likely to withdraw only in two year colleges and that whites are more likely to withdraw than blacks. High school program, college grades, and educational aspiration are significantly related to withdrawal, but receipt of financial aid is not.…
Descriptors: Colleges, Dropout Characteristics, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies
Discontinuities in Schooling and Educational Attainment.
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Robertshaw, Dianne; Wolfle, Lee M. – Higher Education, 1983
Using a structural equation model of educational attainment, a study extends and supports previous investigations of educational discontinuities among American White and Black males and females by using data from a national longitudinal study. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Bound Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. Attrition from College: The Class of 1972 Two and One-Half Years After High School Graduation.
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Kolstad, Andrew – 1977
Some findings about attrition from two- and four-year colleges and universities based on the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) are presented. Attrition is defined as withdrawal from college without completing a degree. After 2 years, the four-year institutions had lost 23.5 percent of their entrants. More two-year…
Descriptors: College Students, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Trends, Followup Studies