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College Graduation Rates

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Diversity in Educational Outcomes

This concept highlights the examination of graduation rates and academic achievements among varied demographic groups. Analyzing diverse student outcomes is critical for understanding equity in higher education and ensuring that all groups—including those historically underserved—have the opportunity to succeed.

Data Transparency and Accountability in Higher Education

This concept encompasses the practice of making reliable, timely, and accessible data available about college performance. It promotes accountability among institutions by enabling the public, policymakers, and stakeholders to assess and compare colleges on metrics such as graduation rates and other indicators of student success.

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00:03 See that okay so i see that you need help with this problem and it wanted you to download a file 2 -2 -43 on that stat website for the text and so i did do that and it wanted you to make a what the problem is is look at how many numbers are here that is a lot of numbers so the other piece to this is the return on investment is very so it goes from it goes down to one it's there's 1302 because i have a title up at the top so that is the problem and so there's 1302 and it's not separated if if it would the return on investment wasn't in the same row then it would be fine things would be fine however it's not separated and so what i did was i took the first 150 but what i'm noticing is if we scroll up it look it appears that all the high numbers are at the top let me just scroll down to like the mid because now that i'm scrolling down to the bottom i'm seeing some negative numbers and so it's the second number the 4 .4 3 .7 um so i'm going to take some values that are down here because i do notice some negative numbers so like there's 0 .21 .8 so what i did was i'm just going to stick with my original i took the first 150 and um where i did 148 and so i made a frequency histogram based off of that but as i'm scrolling down i'm noticing that there's more there's numbers that are in the negatives for return on investment which makes sense so um for these actually if i just put these in order from least to greatest let me see i'm sorry not least to greatest alphabetical order let's do that and then if i take the first 150 and so if i sort a to z and if i do current select continue with current selection and let's try that again because we're going to delete that row and so sort a to z okay and let's get rid of this no fail okay so then i i'm going to do the first hundred so what i have to do is i have to take each one of these 5 .5 see negative 1 .8 negative 4 and then we have 5 .3 5 .7 okay so this is now more of a sample of the data 2 2 .3 negative 0 .2 3 .654 3 .1 1 .2 2 .3 4 .7 6 .21 .6 3 .7 6 .14 .26 .33 .4 negative 0 .5 3 8 .56 5 .43 .77 .46 6 .5 4 .8 4 .28 .33 3 .3 0 .3 um so 0 .3 i'm noticing that i'm off by a number somewhere so this is 3 8 .5 then i have 6 5 .4 3 .7 7 .46 6 .5 4 .8 4 .2 8 .3 5 .6 and then 3 .3 0 .3 4 .8 i mean these are so little these numbers i'm gonna make it a little bit bigger for my eyes anyways um see so then i have 4 um then i have 3 .7 3 .8 4 .9 3 .4 0 .8 2 .8 and 2 .7 7 .6 4 .9 3 .5 4 .5 1 .9 1 .5 3 .4 4 .1 2 .1 then 3 .9 4 .5 3 .5 2 .2 1 .1 2 .3 6 .6 6 .6 6 .5 2 5 .2 3 .9 2 .3 3 2 .7 2 .2 then we have 6 then 6 .5 4 .6 1 .5 5 .1 6 .6 4 .3 6 .1 5 .4 3 .7 6 .5 4 .2 5 .4 3 .9 6 .4 5 .7 3 .6 negative 1 .2 4 .1 5 .6 4 .3 10 .9 7 6 .6 6 .8 0 .9 3 i'm going to try to do as many as i can because you would be doing the same thing right now as me 10 .3 8 .1 9 .8 7 .3 6 .1 3 .7 8 .5 6 .3 5 .1 2 .9 7 .7 5 .5 7 .4 5 7 .7 5 .4 6 .9 4 .7 6 .7 4 .4 6 .9 4 .8 7 .1 4 .9 7 .7 5 .3 5 4 .1 5 .2 5 .6 3 .8 3 3 3 .8 4 4 .1 0 7 .25 3 4 .3 1 .7 2 .7 6 .5 1 .7 negative 0.

09:25 Negative 0 .5 2 .9 6 .1 2 .9 5 .8 alright so i'm going to stop actually at 150 so i'll get rid of these ones.

09:54 Alright so what i'm going to do is i'm going to highlight these numbers okay and i'm going to put them in order from smallest to largest and sometimes it takes me to do this twice for whatever reason.

10:11 Okay so i'm going to start at i'm going to go from negative 4 to negative 3...

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