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Timely completion has been shown to mitigate financial burdens associated with prolonged enrollment, optimize institutional resource utilization, and enhance the socioeconomic mobility of students, particularly those from underrepresented groups (Bound et al., 2012, 2015; Ortagus et al., 2021; Al-Haddad et al., 2018) . By investigating early success indicators such as first-year GPA, credit completion ratios, credits earned, and second-year enrollment, this research seeks to understand the impact of early indicators of student success on timely completion across varying credential types and demographic profiles. These predictors have been analyzed through descriptive statistics and a regression model.  \nTimely completion is defined, in this report, as the student having earned the credential they initially sought, at any institution, within a specific time frame. For this report, completion at 100%, 150%, and 200% time were included. As timely completion varies depending on the credential sought, students were identified as either bachelor seeking or associate/certificate seeking (see Methodological Notes for more information) .  \nThe following early success indicators were analyzed for both groups of credential-seeking students:  \n• First-Year Credit Completion Ratio (CCR): the ratio of credits earned to credits attempted in a student’s first year of enrollment.  \n• First-Year Credits Earned: the total credit hours a student earned (passing the course) during their first year, regardless of the number attempted.  \n• First-Year Grade Point Average (GPA): a student’s GPA at the end of the first academic year based on the course data provided by the institutions.  \n• Second-Year Enrollment: a student is considered to have second-year enrollment if they completed a credential by the second year of enrollment or have continued enrollment into their second academic year, either at the same or different institution (retention and transfer, respectively) .  \nThe cohort examined in this report consists of credential-seeking (associate/certificate or bachelor’s degree), full-time starters who first enrolled during the fall semester of the 2016-17 academic year. Tobe included in the analysis, each student must have complete information reported on all early success indicators and completion status (see Methodological Notes for more information) . The final sample consists of 307,500 unique students—63% were Bachelor’s seeking students (194,400 students from 141 institutions) and 37% were associate/certificate seeking students (113,100 students from 191","cbCaicjuIkfzzQuD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicjuIkfzzQuD","pdf",714578,22,"English","# About this Report\n# Highlights\n# Section 1: Descriptive Analysis of Early Success Indicators by Completion Status\n# Section 2: Mixed Effects Logistic Regression Analysis\n# Section 3: Special Analysis of Bachelor’s Earning Associate/Certificate Seekers\n# Section 4: Summary\n# Methodological Notes","[{\"question\":\"How is “timely completion” defined in this report?\",\"answer\":\"Timely completion means students earned the credential they initially sought, at any institution, within a specified timeframe. 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