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Christine G. Casey, Editor – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2024
The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" ("MMWR") series of publications is published by the Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Articles included in this supplement are: (1) Overview and Methods for the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System --…
Descriptors: High School Students, At Risk Students, Health Behavior, National Surveys
D'Allegro, Mary Lou; Zhou, Kai – Association for Institutional Research, 2013
Peer selection based on the similarity of a couple of institutional parameters, by itself, is insufficient. Several other considerations, including clarity of purpose, alignment of institutional information to that purpose, identification of appropriate statistical procedures, review of preliminary peer sets, and the application of additional…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Case Studies, Mixed Methods Research, Institutional Characteristics
Holubeshen, Moufida; Cowin, Bob; Gaber, Devron – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2006
This 8-page document outlines the key findings of research conducted to assess the number and proportion of potential transfer students from Fall 2004 who subsequently registered at BC universities in 2005, as well as the mobility patterns of these students among all public post-secondary institutions in BC. The research was initiated to assist BC…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Transfer Students, Postsecondary Education, Statistical Data
Luan, Jing – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2006
This exploratory data mining project used distance-based clustering algorithms to study three indicators of student behavioral data collectively called AB-Index, and established a typology of six types of learners for a suburban community college. The study is based on the notion that student behavioral data are a good basis for new ways of doing…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Student Behavior, Cluster Grouping, Course Selection (Students)