Identifying factors influencing engineering student graduation: A longitudinal and cross-institutional study

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 313-320

  Zhang, Guili ^a   Anderson, Timothy J ^a   Ohland, Matthew W ^b,d   Thorndyke, Brian R ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b South   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d 104 Holtzendorff Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Graduation; Logistic regression; Longitudinal study; Retention

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERS; EVALUATION; FEEDBACK; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

GRADUATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; RETENTION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 8644252009     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2004.tb00820.x     Document Type: Article

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