College Student Retention: When Do We Losing Them?

What Do College Ranking Data Tell Us About StudentRetention : Causal Discovery In ActionMarek

We describe an application of the TETRAD II causal discovery program to the problem of search for causes of low student retention in U.S. universities. TETRAD II discovers a class of possible causal structures of a system from a data set containing measurements of the system variables. The signiicance of learning the causal structure of a system is that it allows for predicting the eeect of int...

Application of the TETRAD II Program to the Study of Student Retention in U.S. Colleges

We applied TETRAD II, a causal discovery program developed in Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Philosophy, to a database containing information on 204 U.S. colleges, collected by the US News and World Report magazine for the purpose of college ranking. Our analysis focuses on possible causes of low freshmen retention in U.S. colleges. TETRAD II finds a set of causal structures that ar...

The Effects of Student Coaching: An Evaluation of a Randomized Experiment in Student Advising

College completion and success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not succeed in college is that they lack key information about how to be successful or fail to act on the information that they have. We present evidence from a randomized experiment which tests the effectiveness of individualized student coaching. Over the course of two separate school years, I...

What Do College Ranking Data Tell Us About Student Retention?

An Ex Post Facto Study of First-year Student Orientation as an Indicator of Student Success at a Community College

“A great deal of research has focused on orientation at the four-year level, but a major deficit exists in examining orientation at the community college level. There is a lack of current research... to indicate whether orientation programs are achieving desired results.” hile community colleges do an excellent job of fulfilling their open W door mission, research shows that the completion rate...