ERIC Number: ED129362
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1976-Sep
Pages: 15
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Reference Count: 0
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Fall 1975 Entering Students at the End of Their Second Semester, Fall 1975 through Spring 1976: First Report. Student Flow Project, Report No. 12.
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Community Coll. System.
This document, one of a series of reports from a longitudinal study of student flow in the Hawaii Community College System, analyzes the progress of fall 1975 entering students at the end of their second semester. Among the findings reported are: (1) in spring 1976, 75% of new (4,939) and 65% of transfer students (1,564) continued their enrollment; (2) vocational education majors had higher continuation rates than liberal arts majors or other unclassified students, and males had higher continuation rates than females; (3) new students were found to have higher full-time rates than transfers; (4) transfers had slightly higher credit-completion ratios than new students, females had higher credit-completion ratios than males, and vocational education majors had higher credit-completion ratios than liberal arts majors or other unclassified students; (5) changes of major were made by 6% of the new and 5% of the transfer students; (6) at the end of two semesters, 1% of the new and 2% of the transfer students had graduated; (7) females had higher graduation rates than males, and vocational education majors had higher graduation rates than liberal arts students; and (8) fall 1974 and fall 1975 entering students were found to be quite similar in their student progression characteristics at the end of their second semester. Data is presented in tabular form throughout this report. (Author/JDS)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Sponsor: Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Community Coll. System.
Identifiers: Hawaii
Note: Appendix, computer printouts of detailed statistical data by individual campus, has been deleted from this version of the document due to marginal reproducibility


