caa a22 4500 477138470 CHVBK 20180405111725.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19971201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1024907803718 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1024907803718 The Graduation Efficiency Index: Validity and Use as an Accountability and Research Measure [Elektronische Daten] [Gerald Gillmore, Phillip Hoffman] Legislatures and coordinating boards are looking for efficiency measures as greater numbers of students wish access to higher education. We propose the Graduation Efficiency Index (GEI) as an efficiency measure that is more valid and useful than elapsed time from matriculation to degree (time to degree). The index is computed by subtracting the number of transfer credits from the minimum credits required for the degree, then dividing the remainder by the sum of the enrollment census day credits in which the given student has enrolled while in college. Research is reported in which this index is applied to data from 1993-94 University of Washington bachelor-degree recipients. Among the results, nontransfers were found to graduate with more efficiency than transfers and B.A.-degree recipients with more efficiency that B.S. recipients. The GEI correlated only modestly with time to degree and part-time vs. full-time enrollment status, and correlations with admissions data were quite small. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1997 Gillmore Gerald Office of Educational Assessment, University of Washington, 98195-5837, Seattle, WA aut Hoffman Phillip University of Washington, USA aut Research in Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 38/6(1997-12-01), 677-697 0361-0365 38:6<677 1997 38 11162 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024907803718 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024907803718 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gillmore Gerald Office of Educational Assessment, University of Washington, 98195-5837, Seattle, WA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hoffman Phillip University of Washington, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Research in Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 38/6(1997-12-01), 677-697 0361-0365 38:6<677 1997 38 11162 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer