Author: Bahr Peter
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 0361-0365
Source: Research in Higher Education, Vol.51, Iss.8, 2010-12, pp. : 724-749
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Abstract
The development of a typology of community college students is a topic of long-standing and growing interest among educational researchers, policy-makers, administrators, and other stakeholders, but prior work on this topic has been limited in a number of important ways. In this paper, I develop a behavioral typology based on students’ course-taking and other enrollment patterns during a seven-year observation period. Drawing on data for a population of 165,921 first-time college students, I identify six clusters of behaviors:
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