suspect. Eliminating them from consideration does not alter the generalfindings. Finally, effect sizes were calculated (r values in Tables A3 to A8). These“measure…the closeness of association of the points in a scatter plot to a linear regression line”[27] and are associated with a scale categorizing the closeness of association (e.g., noassociation, very weak, weak, etc.) [27, 28]. While findings are discussed using p values, acommon practice in presentation of pre- and post-instruction measures of educationalinterventions, it is the r values that were used to interpret the patterns and arrive at the study’sconclusions.Persistence and graduation rates of native students and those who transferred to the institutionwho had completed one of the