Examining the Effects of Institutional and Cohort Characteristics on Retention Rates

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• 作者：Gary R. Pike (1)
  Steven S. Graunke (2)
  
  1. Higher Education and Student Affairs ; IU School of Education ; Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis ; 902聽W. New York Street ; ES 3125 ; Indianapolis ; IN ; 46202 ; USA
  2. Office of Student Data ; Analysis and Evaluation ; Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis ; 815聽W. Michigan Street ; UC 3147 ; Indianapolis ; IN ; 46202 ; USA
  
• 关键词：Retention rates ; Panel data ; Unobserved heterogeneity ; Fixed ; effect regression models
• 刊名：Research in Higher Education
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：March 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：56
• 期：2
• 页码：146-165
• 全文大小：289 KB
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Education
  Education
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-188X

文摘

Despite being criticized as unrepresentative and misleading, retention and graduation rates are an important part of college-search web sites and accountability systems, and they frequently have been used as indicators of institutional quality and effectiveness in educational research. Retention and graduation rates are often compared over time and across institutions. However, such comparisons can be confounded by differences in entering student cohorts and differences among the institutions being compared. This research examined the effects of institutional and cohort characteristics on one-year retention rates using random-effect and fixed-effect regression models for panel data. The use of a fixed-effect model allowed the researchers to account for omitted variables (unobserved heterogeneity) in the analyses. Results indicated that unobserved heterogeneity was a significant issue in the study, and that traditional regression methods may overstate the effects of institutional characteristics on retention rates. Results also indicated that the effects of institutional and cohort characteristics were essentially stable over time and across cohorts.