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?Tressie McMillan Cottom on For-Profit Higher Ed, Purdue, and Dream Data Sets

Edsurge

It jumpstarted a moment in research for us. We actually have very bad data about for-profit college students, and that's part of the reason why our data instruments were not designed to oversample them. I would love a panel data similar to the High School and Beyond survey that just has for-profit college students. .

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Improve the precision of student enrollment forecasting

EAB

Hanover Research’s (2011) report mentions that several high school achievement factors (GPA, SAT/ACT test scores, high school rank) are among the most consistent predictors of retention. I also considered whether to include some form of measure of student quality.

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IGNITED 2023 sneak peek: Key trends shaping higher education today

EAB

To make matters worse, many students experienced significant disruptions in their high school education. The National Assessment of Educational Progress scores for both math and reading fell sharply in 2022 and 2023, erasing 40% of the test score gains made since the 1990s. Surgeon General Murthy.