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Answers in the Tool Box

Academic Intensity, Attendance Patterns, and
Bachelor's Degree Attainment

June 1999

Table of Contents

The short, web-based version of the full publication includes an executive summary, selected findings, and a selection of tables and supporting narrative.

• Title Page

• Acknowledgments

• Executive Summary

• On Reading Tables In This Study

• Introduction: Departing from Standard Accounts of Attainment

• I. Cultivating ACRES, the Academic Resources Index

• II. Touchstone Variables: Persistence, Completion, Aspirations, Parents, and Parenthood

• III. The Age of Multi-Institutional Attendance

• IV. Does It Make Any Difference? Common Sense and Multivariate Analysis

• Conclusion: the Tool Box Story

• Notes

• References

• Appendix A: Technical Notes and Guidance

• Appendix B: Inclusions and Exclusions in the Academic Resources Variable: a Demographic Portrait

• Appendix C: Gradations of Academic Intensity & Quality of H.S. Curriculum

• Appendix D: So They Got a Degree! Why Did It Take So Long? Or Did It?

• Appendix E: Example of a Customized National Long-Term Degree Completion Report

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