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

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 9245-9258

  Zhang, Guili ^a   Anderson, Tim ^b   Ohland, Matthew ^c   Carter, Rufus ^a   Thorndyke, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING STUDENTS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; POSITIVE PREDICTORS;

LOGISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8744318390     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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