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Kelley-Winstead, Deanna – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to use classification trees and logistic regression to identify subgroups of students more likely to be retained. The National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) was used to identify the sociodemographic, family background and school related factors associated with grade retention. The sample size for…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Family Characteristics, Questionnaires, School Holding Power
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Hertz, Judith E.; Douglass, Carolinda; Johnson, Angela; Richmond, Shirley S. – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2007
Little is known about the organization, characteristics or services offered by academic interdisciplinary gerontology centers located in higher education institutions. This article presents a description and an emerging typology of academic interdisciplinary gerontology centers based on information collected from the Websites of 47 centers. The…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Program Development, Web Sites, Data Analysis
Pfeifer, Gary W. – 1972
This research was undertaken to discover the relation among the objectives of various levels of a school district. The research was limited to the high school, school district staff, and board of education. A modification of the Delphi process was used to elicit objectives. Once the objectives were developed, they were classified by central theme…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrators, Boards of Education