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Resources
Conference Papers and Presentations
Special Reports & Publications
Related Work by the Project on Academic Success
Conference Papers and PresentationsAIR 2010This presentation provides results from a national survey on how colleges and universities organize themselves to improve student retention. The study covers a broad-scale descriptive view of campus retention efforts while exploring how these efforts influence student persistence across multiple institutional contexts. Survey results reflect the scope and form of the resources and programs four-year colleges and universities devote to improving student retention and also provide evidence on the association of institutional policies and practices with important student success outcomes at the institution level. Special Reports & Publications
Published in the journal About Campus and available at the website of Wiley InterScience at:
Drawing on their experiences in and findings from two distinct but complementary research projects that focus on institutional efforts to enhance student persistence and graduation, the Indiana Project on Academic Success and the College Board Study on Student Retention, the authors share their growing understanding of how institutions organize themselves to enhance student persistence and the extent and effectiveness of those efforts. This article can contribute to the ongoing discussion among scholars and practitioners around the country about how to increase persistence and graduation and, by extension, to improve student learning.
Published by the College Board and available at the College Board Advocacy website at:
http://professionals.collegeboard.com/policy-advocacy/access/retention Most of the relevant research on this crucial issue has focused on the role of student characteristics and experience in persistence and graduation. This study examines the critical role of institutional policies and practices in student persistence and graduation and how that role develops and is enacted in institutions’ efforts to boost these measures of student success.
Published in the NASFAA Journal of Student Financial Aid and available at the website of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators at: http://www.nasfaa.org/Annualpubs/Journal/Vol37N1/GrossHosslerandZiskin.PDF Although billions of dollars are disbursed each year in institutional aid, much of the research to date on student persistence does not consider such aid. The authors of this study used a statewide student unit record database to examine the effects of institutional financial aid on year-to-year persistence among first-time, first-year students at three large doctorate-granting public universities. Related Work by the Project on Academic SuccessThe following reports and papers are not based on data collected through the College Board Pilot Study on Student Retention. They represent research on student retention that the Project on Academic Success has conducted using a statewide student unit record database.
with commentary from series editor, Edward P. St. John, who developed the IPAS model and was the project’s founding director.
Available for order from AMS Press, Inc., at http://www.amspressinc.com/ree.html This volume in the Readings on Equal Education series discusses the research and program evaluation activities of the Indiana Project on Academic Success (IPAS), a collaborative effort with postsecondary institutions that used action research to identify and evaluate interventions to enhance student success and that developed and employed a state student information database to facilitate education research and to inform campus- and state-level decision making. The authors reflect on lessons learned from the IPAS initiative and examine its impact on participating institutions and individuals.
2009 AIR Annual Forum, Atlanta, GA Following a discussion of the persistent issues related to missing data in statistical research, the various types of missing data, and the strategies for dealing with missing data, this presentation outlines the design, results, recommendations, and statistical implications of a study that used expectation maximization (EM) algorithm imputation as a strategy for addressing missing data.
Published in the NASFAA Journal of Student Financial Aid and available at the website of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators at: http://www.nasfaa.org/Annualpubs/Journal/Vol37N1/GrossHosslerandZiskin.PDF Although billions of dollars are disbursed each year in institutional aid, much of the research to date on student persistence does not consider such aid. The authors of this study used a statewide student unit record database to examine the effects of institutional financial aid on year-to-year persistence among first-time, first-year students at three large doctorate-granting public universities.
Published by Springer in Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Vol. 24, and available at the SpringerLink online database at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/hl22841kk213m1p1/fulltext.pdf To synthesize current understandings of how financial aid affects undergraduate persistence and graduation, the authors conducted an extensive review of studies published since 1990 in this area. They identify how the studies were conducted as well as the summative knowledge from them of the effects of grants and loans on persistence and graduation; the specific effects on persistence and graduation of merit aid, loans, and programmatic elements; and the effects of debt on student success outcomes.
Published in the Journal of College Student Retention and available at the website of the Baywood Publishing Company at:
http://baywood.metapress.com/app/home/main.asp?referrer=default Using literature and illustrations drawn from a pilot study of institutional policies and practices surrounding student retention, the authors explore the theoretical and methodological challenges entailed in the study of student retention. The discussion centers on two efforts to expand the theoretical base and scope for research in this area: one argues that colleges and universities are optimizers of cultural capital and the other critiques the narrowness of the frames that predominate student retention research. |
Contact UsE-mail is likely to be the most efficient way to reach us, and we can use e-mail to arrange follow-up phone conversations. Don Hossler Director hossler@indiana.edu 812.856.8391 Phoebe Khasiala Wakhungu Project Manager pwakhung@indiana.edu 812.856.1506 Project on Academic Success 1900 E. Tenth Street Eigenmann Hall, Suite 630 Bloomington, IN 47406-7512 
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