Males who participated in intercollegiate athletics are estimated to receive 4% higher annual incomes than similar non-athletes. No such income premium associated with college athletics is revealed among females. Both male and female athletes who attended colleges and universities in the early 1970s had higher graduation rates than other students. Since the models used to estimate income and gr...

The error on a real quantity Y due to the graduation of the measuring instrument may be approximately represented, when the graduation is regular and fines down, by a Dirichlet form on R whose square field operator does not depend on the probability law of Y as soon as this law possesses a continuous density. This feature is related to the “arbitrary functions principle” (Poincaré, Hopf). We gi...

* Specialist in Clinical and Educational Audiology at the Craniofacial Anomalies Rehabilitation Hospital of the University of São Paulo (HRAC-USP) and Master’s Degree in “General Bases of Surgery” at the Medicine College of the Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP campus Botucatu SP). Clinical Phonoaudiologist. ** Doctor’s Degree. Head Professor of the Universidade Es...

This paper applies a unified methodology to multiple data sets to estimate both the levels and trends in U.S. high school graduation rates. We establish that (a) the true rate is substantially lower than widely used measures; (b) it peaked in the early 1970s; (c) majority/minority differentials are substantial and have not converged for 35 years; (d) lower post-1970 rates are not solely due to ...

Competency at graduation, in a variety of physical and attitudinal skills, is an essential outcome measure for courses training veterinary surgeons. The approach adopted by the Royal Veterinary College, London, to identify and define the expected skill competencies required of our veterinary undergraduates by the time of graduation is described. In addition, we demonstrate how this skill set wa...

The goal of an exit strategy is to ensure sustainability of program impacts after the program has ended. “Exit” refers to the withdrawal of all externally provided program resources from the entire program area. “Graduation” refers to the withdrawal of resources from selected communities, program sites or program activities. This technical note provides an overview of different approaches to gr...

The present study examined the utility of testing noncognitive aptitudes as a predictor of graduation from US Air Force air traffic controller (ATC) training. A total of 1,003 training candidates participated in the study. Results of logistic regression indicate that noncognitive areas of functioning at the start of training significantly predicted graduation beyond the effects of a measure of ...

The option to obtain a General Education Development (GED) certificate changes the incentives facing high school students. This paper evaluates the effect of three different GED policy innovations on high school graduation rates. A six point decrease in the GED pass rate due to an increase in passing standards produced a 1.3 point decline in overall dropout rates. The introduction of a GED cert...