Outcomes of Increased Access to Postsecondary Education by Deaf Persons [electronic resource] / Gerard G. Walter.
This assessment of the outcomes of increased access to postsecondary education for hearing-impaired students focuses on attrition levels and earnings levels. To analyze attrition from postsecondary programs serving the deaf, information from 95 programs was gathered. Using an algorithm to estimate c...
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| Summary: | This assessment of the outcomes of increased access to postsecondary education for hearing-impaired students focuses on attrition levels and earnings levels. To analyze attrition from postsecondary programs serving the deaf, information from 95 programs was gathered. Using an algorithm to estimate cohort survival rates and taking into account increased enrollments due to a rubella epidemic, attrition rates for deaf students were estimated to be about 70 percent of an entering class of hearing-impaired students, which was an average of one-third higher than rates reported for a comparable group of hearing students. Attrition rates were lowest for the group of postsecondary programs primarily offering diplomas and highest for those offering associate degrees. To analyze earnings levels, wage and salary data for hearing-impaired students who had graduated or withdrawn from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf were acquired from the Internal Revenue Service. The analysis showed that salaries increased with degree level. Recipients of sub-baccalaureate degrees earned 43 percent more than non-graduating students. Baccalaureate recipients earned salaries an average of 27 percent higher than recipients of sub-baccalaureate degrees, and 83 percent higher than the average earnings of withdrawals. (Author/JDD) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED296522. Sponsoring Agency: Department of Education, Washington, DC. ERIC Note: For related documents, see EC 210 285-289. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association (Minneapolis, MN, May 1987). |
| Physical Description: | 18 p. |