An Analysis of Factors Predicting Graduation of Students at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

Abstract

This thesis analyzes factors related to academic, military and personal backgrounds that affect graduation of students enrolled at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC). The data in this thesis were taken from DLIFLC and only students from the four principal services with valid DLAB scores were considered for this study. Also, as DLI is concerned with students who do not make the grade academically, entries having administrative attritions were not considered. four logistic regression models were analyzed for the purposes of this study: Graduation of students across all four categories of languages taught at DLIFLC, graduation of students in Category I languages, graduation of students in Category III languages and graduation of students in Category IV languages. The results of this study can assist DLIFLC in investing its resources in students with the best chances of success and assist the staff in identifying the weaker students from the onset of the course.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA429897

Entities

People

  • Chin H. Wang

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Attrition
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Descriptive Analytics
  • Foreign Languages
  • Goodness Of Fit Tests
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Military Personnel
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Operations Research
  • Personnel Management
  • Regression Analysis
  • Statistics
  • Students

Fields of Study

  • Education

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  • Strategic Security Studies