According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, aggregate student loans nationwide have almost quadrupled in the past ten years, from $253bn at the end of 2003 to $1.08tn at the end of 2013.
The decision was reinforced by the immediate availability of analytical data generated by the students' app use as well as the relative ease of accessing aggregate student data on retention and academic performance.
Aggregate student-loan debt has broken the trillion dollar barrier.
Taken as an aggregate, student loan indebtedness is now in excess of one trillion dollars, surpassing even credit cards.
Although "charter schools have become a rallying cry for education reformers," the report, by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, warned, "this study reveals in unmistakable terms that, in the aggregate, charter students are not faring as well" as students in traditional schools.
The third group is an aggregate of students from other non-western countries (ONW) which is a heterogeneous group.
(Performance Level 3 meets state standards, and Performance Level 4 exceeds them. The change from 2003 compares annual aggregates of students at Levels 3 and 4).
By aggregating the students' perceptions on who bullied whom, we were able to identify frequently named bully-victim dyads.
At the student level, we include one aggregate variable characterizing student reports of student-centered practices (e.g., holding whole class discussions, having students work together in groups, and having students present their work to the whole class).
In generalizing the predictors of academic performance to more medical majors, the HLM framework is useful for accounting for the variability due to student-level and aggregate measures of student-level predictors (major-level variables, e.g., percent female students).
