Quantifying the relationship between student enrollment patterns and student performance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10874v4
• Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2020 00:33:55 GMT
• Title: Quantifying the relationship between student enrollment patterns and student performance
• Abstract summary: It is not uncommon for students to alternate between full-time and part-time enrollment each semester based on finances, scheduling, or family needs. While prior research has established full-time students maintain better outcomes then their part-time counterparts, limited study has examined the impact of enrollment patterns or strategies on academic outcomes. Analysis of data collected from the University of Central Florida from 2008 to 2017 indicates that first-time-in-college students that apply a mixed enrollment strategy are closer in performance to full-time students.
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• Abstract: Simplified categorizations have often led to college students being labeled as full-time or part-time students. However, at many universities student enrollment patterns can be much more complicated, as it is not uncommon for students to alternate between full-time and part-time enrollment each semester based on finances, scheduling, or family needs. While prior research has established full-time students maintain better outcomes then their part-time counterparts, limited study has examined the impact of enrollment patterns or strategies on academic outcomes. In this paper, we applying a Hidden Markov Model to identify and cluster students' enrollment strategies into three different categorizes: full-time, part-time, and mixed-enrollment strategies. Based the enrollment strategies we investigate and compare the academic performance outcomes of each group, taking into account differences between first-time-in-college students and transfer students. Analysis of data collected from the University of Central Florida from 2008 to 2017 indicates that first-time-in-college students that apply a mixed enrollment strategy are closer in performance to full-time students, as compared to part-time students. More importantly, during their part-time semesters, mixed-enrollment students significantly outperform part-time students. Similarly, analysis of transfer students shows that a mixed-enrollment strategy is correlated a similar graduation rates as the full-time enrollment strategy, and more than double the graduation rate associated with part-time enrollment. Such a finding suggests that increased engagement through the occasional full-time enrollment leads to better overall outcomes.

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