Forecasting First-Term Collegiate Success from Pre-Enrollment Information

Admissions officials are asked to make decisions about individual students based upon the information that can be known prior to enrollment. In the present study we show that first-term success of previous students from a given high school can be a significant predictor of first-term success of individual students after accounting for other variables; such as standardized test scores and class standing; that are also known prior to initial enrollment.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Price, Donald I. ; Marsh, Gregory B.
Published in:	Journal for Economic Educators. - Economics and Finance Department. - 2014, 1
Publisher:	Economics and Finance Department
Subject:	student retention \| first-term GPA \| high school quality \| success adjusted student percentile

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	I2 - Education
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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