About 60 per cent of University of Texas freshmen withdrew permanently each year, based on student-history tracing of 1901–1908 freshman cohorts¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Roughly 60 per cent of entering freshmen withdrew permanently each year from the University of Texas. → E. D. Jennings 1911

Evidence¶

E. D. Jennings 1911¶

E. D. Jennings. (1911). The Elimination of Freshmen from the University of Texas. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=elimination+of+freshmen+from+the+university+of+texas

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Archival student-history analysis tracing each name in freshman catalogues for 1901 to 1908 through subsequent class lists, adjusting for retardation and acceleration. The conclusions state "About 60 per cent, of the freshmen withdraw perma- nently each year from the university."

"1. About 60 per cent, of the freshmen withdraw perma- nently each year from the university."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Freshmen rank lack of money as the leading cause of elimination, followed by ill-health; the authors attribute about 34 per cent of elimination to lack of means and 28 per cent to ill-health — related
• Student-history computation yields appreciably lower elimination percentages than class-population computation — related
• University scholarship ratings ran about 16 per cent below high-school ratings for the same students, ranking them only two-thirds as high per hour of study, a gap the authors link to discouragement and withdrawal — related
• The large majority of freshmen scoring below 77.5 Alpha drop out before senior year — related