Completions-Contents

Occasional Paper Series

Completions

Undergraduate academic outcomes

for 1992 commencing students

Mark Urban
Emily Jones
Gregg Smith
Christine Evans
Maureen Maclachlan
Tom Karmel

August 1999

Occasional Paper Series
99G

Higher Education Division
Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs

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Contents

1. Introduction
	1.1 The main findings
2. Pathways to completion—an estimate of the final completion rate
	2.1 Discussion
3. Completions and student characteristics
	3.1 Outcomes by gender
	3.2 Outcomes by age
	3.3 Outcomes by mode of study
	3.4 Outcomes by methods of qualifying for entry to university
		Students with a TER
		Students without a TER
	3.5 Outcomes by field of study
	3.6 Outcomes for equity groups
		Indigenous students
		Outcomes for non-English speaking background
	3.7 Outcomes for socio-economic status
	3.8 Outcomes by location
4. Conclusion

Appendix A Completions data
Appendix B Modelling of data

Figures and tables

Figures

Figure 1 Undergraduate flows and completions

Figure 2 Undergraduate academic outcomes by gender

Figure 3 1992 commencing students completions by gender—crude and adjusted

Figure 4 1992 commencing undergraduate students: Completion by age and gender

Figure 5 1992 commencing students (with TER) completions by age—crude and adjusted

Figure 6 1992 Commencing students (without TER) completions by age—crude and adjusted

Figure 7 Undergraduate academic outcomes by mode of study

Figure 8 1992 commencing students (with TER) completions by mode of study—crude and adjusted

Figure 9 1992 commencing students (without TER) completions by mode of study—crude and adjusted

Figure 10 Undergraduate academic outcomes by basis for entry to university

Figure 11 Undergraduate academic outcomes by TER scores (grouped in deciles)

Figure 12 1992 commencing students (with TER) completions by TER score—crude and adjusted

Figure 13 1992 commencing students (without TER) completions by basis of entry—crude and adjusted

Figure 14 Undergraduate academic outcomes by field of study

Figure 15 1992 commencing students (with TER) completions by field of study—crude and adjusted

Figure 16 1992 commencing students (without TER) completions by field of study—crude and adjusted

Figure 17 Undergraduate academic outcomes by Indigenous status

Figure 18 1992 commencing students (with TER) completions by Indigenous background—crude and adjusted

Figure 19 1992 commencing students (without TER) completions by Indigenous background—crude and adjusted

Figure 20 Undergraduate academic outcomes by language background

Figure 21 1992 commencing students (with TER) completions by language background—crude and adjusted

Figure 22 1992 commencing students (without TER) completions by language background—crude and adjusted

Figure 23 Undergraduate academic outcomes by socio-economic status

Figure 24 1992 commencing students (without TER) completions by socio-economic background—crude and adjusted

Figure 25 Undergraduate academic outcomes by geographic location

Figure 26 1992 commencing students completions by geographic location—crude and adjusted

Tables

Table A1	Undergraduate academic outcome by gender
Table A2	Commencing undergraduate students: Completion by age and gender
Table A3	Undergraduate academic outcomes by mode of study
Table A4	Undergraduate academic outcomes by TER scores (grouped in deciles)
Table A5	Undergraduate academic outcomes by basis for entry to university
Table A6	Undergraduate academic outcomes by field of study
Table A7	Undergraduate academic outcomes by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status
Table A8	Undergraduate academic outcomes by non-English speaking background status
Table A9	Undergraduate academic outcomes by socioeconomic status
Table A10	Undergraduate academic outcomes by geographic location
Table B1a	Completion rates for certain characteristics (TER score)
Table B1b	Completion rates for certain characteristics (no TER score)
Table B2a	Binomial logit estimates of completion (TER)
Table B2b	Binomial logit estimates of completion (No TER)
Table B3	Weights for TER and no TER score

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