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Who Stays and Who Leaves? Predicting College Student Persistence Using Comprehensive Retention Models
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Adam C. Elder – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to use a comprehensive framework to examine academic, psychosocial, noncognitive, and other background factors that are related to retention at a large, public four-year institution in the southeastern United States. Specifically, the study examined what factors are most important in predicting first-to-second year…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, College Students, Academic Persistence, Models
Using Incoming Student Information to Identify Students At-Risk of Not Returning to Their Initial Institution in Year Two. ACT Research Report Series 2017-10
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Radunzel, Justine – ACT, Inc., 2017
As pushes for increased accountability in higher education continue, postsecondary institutions are interested in identifying early on students who are at-risk of leaving their institution. With this in mind, this study sought to identify incoming first-year student information (such as that available on the ACT student record) that postsecondary…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, At Risk Students, College Preparation, Dropouts
Using Incoming Student Information to Identify Students At-Risk of Not Returning to Their Initial Institution in Year Two. ACT Working Paper 2016 (04)
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Radunzel, Justine – ACT, Inc., 2016
As pushes for increased accountability in higher education continue, postsecondary institutions are interested in identifying early on students who are at risk of leaving their institution. With this in mind, this study sought to identify incoming first-year student information (such as that available on the ACT student record) that postsecondary…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, At Risk Students, College Preparation, Dropouts