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Mattern, Krista D.; Marini, Jessica P.; Shaw, Emily J. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2015
Throughout the college retention literature, there is a recurring theme that students leave college for a variety of reasons making retention a difficult phenomenon to model. In the current study, cluster analysis techniques were employed to investigate whether multiple empirically based profiles of nonreturning students existed to more fully…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Multivariate Analysis, Student Characteristics
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McArdle, John J.; Paskus, Thomas S.; Boker, Steven M. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2013
This is an application of contemporary multilevel regression modeling to the prediction of academic performances of 1st-year college students. At a first level of analysis, the data come from N greater than 16,000 students who were college freshman in 1994-1995 and who were also participants in high-level college athletics. At a second level of…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, College Athletics
Sue, Stanley; Abe, Jennifer – 1988
This study examined the following predictors of academic success for 4,113 Asian American students and 1,000 White students who enrolled as freshmen on any of the eight University of California campuses during fall 1984: (1) high school grade point average (GPA); (2) Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)--verbal score; (3) SAT--mathematical score; (4)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Asian American Students, Asian Americans