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Pre-entry characteristics of college students as predictors of persistence: Discriminant and Mahal analyses
Abstract
The pre-entry characteristics of age, gender, first-generation status, ACT composite, and high school class rank of approximately 1500 first-time, full-time college students enrolled in a rural, four-year state college were studied to determine whether student attrition or retention within or immediately following the first semester could be predicted by these attributes. Age, gender, first-generation status, ACT composite, and class rank were found to predict attrition/retention in a discriminant analysis. Gender was the only variable found not to be significant to attrition or retention in a Mahal analysis, with first-generation status found to have greater strength than the other variables in the prediction process.
Subject Area
Higher education
Recommended Citation
Murphy, Janet I. Karre, "Pre-entry characteristics of college students as predictors of persistence: Discriminant and Mahal analyses" (1996). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9637075.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9637075