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Activity Number: 176
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 1, 2011 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract - #303320
Title: Dropout Factories and College Enrollment: How School-Level Rates of On-Time Grade Promotion Affect Matriculation
Author(s): Thomas Christopher West*+
Companies: University of Delaware
Address: 1015 Christina Mill Drive, Newark, DE, 19711,
Keywords: administrative data ; applied ; secondary education ; postsecondary education ; education ; grade retention
Abstract:

By utilizing Promoting Power as a school-level contextual variable, this study examines the relationship between school rates of on-time promotion and student matriculation. Specifically, this study uses a two-level hierarchical general linear model (HGLM) analytic design to identify significant student- and school-based factors that predict college enrollment behavior among U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics' Education Longitudinal Study (ELS) of 2002 participants. In both the two- and four-year enrollment HGLM models, Promoting Power was found to significantly increase the likelihood of student matriculation, with the effect more pronounced for two-year enrollment.


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