RE: Survey on prerequisites vs. DWF rate [HAPP-L]

["Carl Shuster" <CShuster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The reason I thought "state" and "country" might be a good idea is
because--believe it or not--there are administrators out there that
believe that only institutions within their own state are pertinent
while comparing these sorts of data.  However, whatever you'all think is
best...... :)

 
> > > mweck@xxxxxxxxxx 11/11/03 08:34AM >>>
Different states have different entrance requirements for their 2 and 4
year institutions.  Some states require that all state schools admit
anyone (even to the 4-yr schools and professional programs) with a valid
high school diploma from that state, while other states have ACT and GPA
admissions requirements for some state schools and not others.  One
would presume that the fail and drop-out rates might be correlated to
the admissions criteria in some way.  So maybe the admissions criteria
would be the more pertinant data, rather than just the State.
Margaret W.

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Subject: Survey on prerequisites vs. DWF rate [HAPP-L] 

CARL: I would suggest that "State" and "Country" be a mandatory entry.


Why? Are we intending to analyze differences between the U.S. and
Canada? Or differences from one state to another? Unless we have a
clearly preconceived use for certain data or comparisons, or a
hypothesis in mind that requires information on the state or country, I
don't see what the purpose of this information would be. I don't want to
collect data just for the sake of data, but only data that would be
directly relevant to some sort of hypothesis testing. That said,
however, I will tabulate whatever it is the consensus of the listserv
members to collect.


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