Placement and Retention Linking to End of Fiscal Year or Student Exit

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Placement and RetentionLinking to End of Fiscal
Year or Student Exit

• Bryan Wilson
• Washington State

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Placement and RetentionLinking to End of Fiscal
Year or Student Exit

• If linked to End of Fiscal Year, Then Placement
  is Measured
• Students exiting Q1 Employment during Q5 after
  exit
• Students exiting Q2 Employment during Q4 after
  exit
• Students exiting Q3 Employment during Q3 after
  exit
• Students exiting Q4 Employment during Q2 after
  exit
• This makes no sense from a policy or research
  perspective. Policy-makers do not want a
  complicated mixed bag of follow-up periods.
  Researchers time follow-up periods to treatments
  not accounting periods.

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Placement and RetentionLinking to End of Fiscal
Year or Student Exit

• If linked to End of Fiscal Year, Then Retention
  may be Measured
• Students exiting Q1 Employment during Q7 after
  exit among those employed during Q5 after exit
• Students exiting Q2 Employment during Q6 after
  exit among those employed during Q4 after exit
• Students exiting Q3 Employment during Q5 after
  exit among those employed during Q3 after exit
• Students exiting Q4 Employment during Q4 among
  those employed during Q2 after exit
• Try explaining this to a busy policy-maker. Is
  this similar to how the results of any other
  public program is measured???

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Placement and RetentionLinking to End of Fiscal
Year or Student Exit

• If linked to student exit, then there can be
  consistent follow-periods for placement and
  retention, making it simpler for policy-makers to
  understand and logical from a research
  perspective.
• But wont this be difficult to implement?
• No! Linking to the Q of student exit can be done
  just once a year. It only requires a simple
  computer program code saying, in effect when
  student exit is ___ then match with quarter ___,
  when student exit is ___ then match with quarter
  ___, when student exit is ___ then match with
  quarter ____, and when student exit is ___ then
  match with quarter ___.