| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22629 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22629 |
| Thrivers and Divers: Using Non-Academic Measures to Predict College Success and Failure | |
| Graham Beattie; Jean-William P. Laliberté; Philip Oreopoulos | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-09-12 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We collect a comprehensive set of non-academic characteristics for a representative sample of incoming freshman to explore which measures best predict the wide variance in first-year college performance unaccounted for by past grades. We focus our attention on student outliers. Students whose first-year college average is far below expectations (divers) have a high propensity for procrastination – they self-report cramming for exams and wait longer before starting assignments. They are also considerably less conscientious than their peers. Divers are more likely to express superficial goals, hoping to 'get rich' quickly. In contrast, students who exceed expectations (thrivers) express more philanthropic goals, are purpose-driven, and are willing to study more hours per week to obtain the higher GPA they expect. A simple seven-variable average of these key non-academic variables does well in predicting college achievement relative to adding more variables or letting a machine-algorithm choose. Our results, descriptive in nature, warrant further research on the importance of non-linearities for the design and targeting of successful interventions in higher-education. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22629 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580302 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Graham Beattie,Jean-William P. Laliberté,Philip Oreopoulos. Thrivers and Divers: Using Non-Academic Measures to Predict College Success and Failure. 2016. |
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