Analysis of Graduation Rates for Four-year Colleges: A Model of Institutional Performance Using IPEDS
Description:
Under the George W. Bush U.S. presidential administration, the federal government pushed for greater accountability among institutions of higher education for educational outcomes. Graduation rate is a key performance indicator of institutional accountability. Previous researchers of student attrition focused primarily on the effects of student level factors on student persistence/withdrawal behavior. Recently, researchers put more focus on the effects of institutional characteristics on gradua…
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Date:
May 2010
Creator:
Fung, Terence Yip-hung
Partner:
UNT Libraries