The return on showing up
What is attendance data worth at your institution?
Built from the Credé, Roch & Kieszczynka study, then calculated with your enrollment, tuition, dropout rate, and recovery assumption.
Evidence base
ρ = .44attendance and class gradesStudy scale
21,195students across 69 samplesPlanning impact
5%default recovery case—not a study resultPlanning-case annual tuition revenue protected
$1,944,000
- Students lost each year
- 2,160
- Tuition revenue walking out the door
- $38,880,000
- Students retained in this scenario
- 108.0
- Five-year cumulative
- $9,720,000
Why attendance, and why now
The earliest warning sign is the one most campuses discard.
Across 69 samples and 21,195 students, attendance predicted grades better than SAT scores, high school GPA, study habits, or study skills.
The study supports attendance as an early signal. The selected recovery rate is your planning assumption.
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