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Download full textBozick, Robert; Gonzalez, Gabriella; Engberg, John – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2015
The Pittsburgh Promise is a scholarship program that provides $5,000 per year toward college tuition for public high school graduates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who earned a 2.5 GPA and a 90% attendance record. This study used a difference-in-difference design to assess whether the introduction of the Promise scholarship program directly…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, College Bound Students, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Management
Peer reviewedKapes, Jerome T. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1972
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, College Bound Students, Developmental Psychology
Levin, James; Wyckoff, John – 1990
This study developed predictive models on persistence and success in engineering at the end of the sophomore year by examining 11 intellective and 9 non-intellective variables. The project's long-term purpose was to contribute to the improvement of academic advising for students considering engineering majors and thus improve student retention.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, College Bound Students
PDF pending restorationKinard, Frank E.; Krech, Alan S. – 1977
Two methods were used to project college and university enrollment in South Carolina: the age ratio method, which correlates college attendance with the population of traditional college age; and the cohort survival method, using historical data on the progression of students from high school to and through college. The projections indicate that…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Students, Demography, Enrollment Projections
Webb, Melvin W., II – 1989
A preliminary model was developed for predicting mail survey response rates of college bound high school students using student demographic and academic ability data. Two samples of high school juniors and seniors who took the American College Testing (ACT) Assessment between October 1987 and February 1988 were selected. One sample (n=810)…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Bound Students, Demography, High School Students
Hoover, Donald R. – CACD Journal, 1990
An important element of school counseling is providing assessments on the collective future needs and activities of a graduating school class. The College Attendance Rate (CAR) is defined here as the proportion of seniors graduating from a given high school, during a given year, that will enroll full-time at an academic college sometime during the…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Bound Students, College Freshmen, Educational Attainment
Breland, Hunter M. – 1979
Published reports and papers pertaining to the validity of measures commonly used at college entrance are reviewed and summarized in this report. These measures consist of various types of academic quantitative indices used to describe the high school record and various types of academic tests. The data are categorized by sex and ethnic…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admission (School), College Bound Students, Comparative Analysis
Bridgeman, Brent – 1989
The Advanced Placement Program reports grades to students and colleges on a 1 to 5 point scale derived from combining the separate scores on the multiple-choice and free-response sections of Advanced Placement Examinations (ADPEs). In this study, predictions of grades in first-semester college biology courses were made based on students' separate…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Biology, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations
Schwartz, Susan M.; Wilbur, Franklin P. – 1981
The potential use of actual performance by high school students in college-level courses as a predictor of college achievement, rather than or in addition to Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores, was investigated. At Syracuse University Project Advance over 4,000 students a year in 80 high schools in four states participate in joint high school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement Programs, Aptitude, Articulation (Education)
PDF pending restorationWarrack, Barry J.; Russell, C. Neil – 1980
Indices of motivation and demand developed to forecast postsecondary enrollment in Manitoba, Canada, are described. The indices were tested with surveys of more than 14,000 high school students with respect to actual outcomes and validated by surveying more than 5,000 students. The theoretical basis of the indices, their use in enrollment…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Bound Students, Educational Demand, Enrollment Influences
Carroll, Stephen J.; And Others – 1977
An empirical approach is taken to the problem of predicting effects of student financial aid programs on postsecondary enrollment rates and patterns. A model of students' enrollment decisions is developed and used to estimate the likely effects of alternative award policies for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program. The analysis…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Bound Students, College Choice, Educational Economics
Maryland State Higher Education Commission, Annapolis. – 1997
This study examined the relationship between students' academic performance in high school vis-a-vis their performance in the first year at college. The study analyzed data on students who graduated from Maryland high schools in the 1994-95 academic year and who were enrolled in 2- and 4-year Maryland public institutions or in one of 11…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, College Freshmen, College Outcomes Assessment
Ford, Susan F.; Campos, Sandy – 1977
Validity data (prediction of first-year grade point average) for colleges participating in the Admissions Testing Program Validity Study Service (VSS) and based on students entering college in 1964 through 1974 are summarized for the following predictors: Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)--verbal score, SAT--mathematical score, high school record,…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, Colleges
