Project CEMAPRE internal
| Title | Higher Education Research: the relationship between prior achievement and degree completion on time |
| Participants | Maria Eugénia Ferrão (Principal Investigator), Marcel T Vieira |
| Summary | Stating that graduation and stopout/delay are either 'competing' or negatively correlated events, and proposing that they should be modeled deterministically, may jeopardize the validity of conclusions. Previous research has shown that factors influencing timely graduation (e.g., financial aid, prior achievement, motivation) often have varying effects (Ferrão, 2023a, 2023b; Ferrão et al., 2022; Ferrão & Almeida, 2019, 2021; Morais et al., 2021). Neglecting these varying effects could lead to misleading conclusions and potentially result in the implementation of inappropriate or inefficient policies. This project focuses on examining how the factors identified in previous research are institutionally related to timely graduation, which is defined as completing a degree without interruptions or delays. References: Ferrão, M. E. (2023a). Differential effect of university entrance scores on graduates’ performance: the case of degree completion on time in Portugal. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 48(1), 95–106. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2022.2052799 Ferrão, M. E. (2023b). Relationship between student financial aid and degree completion on time in Portugal. European Conference on Educational Research, ECER Network 09. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement, Glasgow. Ferrão, M. E., & Almeida, L. S. (2019). Differential effect of university entrance score on first-year students’ academic performance in Portugal. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 44(4), 610–622. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2018.1525602 Ferrão, M. E., & Almeida, L. S. (2021). Persistence and academic expectations in higher education students. Psicothema, 33(4), 587–594. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2020.68 Ferrão, M. E., Prata, P., & Fazendeiro, P. (2022). Utility-driven assessment of anonymized data via clustering. Scientific Data, 9(1), 456. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01561-6 Morais, A. M. de P., Betarelli, A. A., Vasconcelos, S. P., & Vieira, M. T. (2021). Universities, socioeconomic standards and inclusion policies: Assessing the effects on the performance of Brazilian undergraduates. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 70, 100996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2021.100996 |