Factors Influencing Nontraditional Student Attrition and Persistence Decisions in Four Fully Online Undergraduate Programs
Author | : George J. Kroeninger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : College dropouts |
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Author | : George J. Kroeninger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : College dropouts |
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Author | : Alfred Rovai |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2009-01-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1780631626 |
The purpose of this book is to increase understanding of the major theories, issues, challenges, and solutions related to online distance education. It balances practical advice with a description of the theoretical and research-based underpinnings for the culturally-responsive strategies presented. An important integrating theme is the impact of globalization and internationalization on all aspects of distance education. Consequently, the book examines the implications of global reach and cross-border education and promotes the integration of global learning in academic programs. - Addresses the global reach of distance education and associated cultural, linguistic, and accreditation issues - Describes the latest online learning technologies, e.g., blogs, wikis, podcasting, mobile learning, virtual worlds, etc. - Addresses the culture of higher education and forces that are moving higher education in new directions, e.g., academic capitalism, consumerism, and competition among non-profit, for-profit, and corporate universities
Author | : Jackie C. Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Educational psychology and individual differences |
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Retaining and graduating students has become an issue of widespread concern among today's colleges and universities. Current research suggests that, on average, four-year colleges and universities in the United States graduate approximately 58% of their students each year (National Center for Education Statistics, 2012). For the past forty years, faculty, staff, and administrators have been interested in identifying factors that may increase the number of students who persist and complete a college degree. The present study used a theoretical model of college student persistence and attrition to test background, contextual, and motivational factors that may influence college student persistence and attrition. Participants in this study were undergraduate men and women (N = 595) who attended a large, diverse, urban, four-year university in Texas. Participants were asked to complete an 84-item online survey that was used to assess the following factors: background characteristics, campus involvement, faculty mentoring, peer group interactions, sense of belonging, utility value, self-efficacy, residential status, enrollment status, transfer status, and financial concern. These factors were used to help predict institutional persistence attitudes, general persistence attitudes, and attrition. Institutional persistence attitudes describe a student's attitude about persisting at the current institution he or she is attending. General persistence attitudes refer to a student's overall attitude about persisting in college. Finally, attrition describes the process in which a student fails to reenroll from the fall 2011 semester to the spring 2012 semester. Results from a series of ANOVAs found that African-American students reported weaker persistence attitudes than White and Hispanic students. Differences in institutional persistence attitudes were also found among students who transferred from another institution and those who did not. More specifically, students who transferred from another institution reported stronger institutional persistence attitudes than those who did not. Interestingly, results of the ANOVAs indicated no differences in institutional persistence attitudes and general persistence attitudes between full-time and part-time students and students who lived on campus and off campus. A pair of hierarchical multiple linear regressions was conducted to evaluate the extent to which student background characteristics, contextual factors, and motivational factors were able to predict institutional persistence attitudes and general persistence attitudes. Results from these analyses indicated that faculty mentoring, parents' education level, socioeconomic status, race, campus involvement, peer group interactions, utility value, self-efficacy, and sense of belonging were all significant predictors of institutional persistence attitudes. In the second multiple regression, gender, race, parents' college expectations, financial concern, utility value and peer group interactions were significantly related to general persistence attitudes. Finally, a subset of the participants (N = 245) who provided the necessary data was used to conduct a hierarchical logistic regression that evaluated the extent to which student background characteristics, contextual factors, and motivational factors could be used to predict attrition. Results from the first step of the hierarchical logistic regression found that prior performance was negatively related to student attrition. The second step of the logistic regression failed to achieve significance. The findings from this study will be used to help educate students, parents, faculty, staff, and administrators about useful strategies and resources that can be utilized to better support and retain college students.
Author | : Mathew J. Bergman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Academic achievement |
ISBN | : |
For more than 100 years, nearly half of all undergraduate students have failed to persist to degree completion (ACT, 2010; Tinto, 1993; U.S. Department of Education, 2008). To make matters worse, adult students have consistently been victims of higher levels of attrition than their traditional student counterparts (Justice & Dornan, 2001; National Adult Attitudes Report, 2008). This study utilized the theoretical underpinnings from the Bean and Metzner (1985) Conceptual Model of Nontraditional Undergraduate Student Attrition and Braxton, Hirschy, and McClendon's (2004) Theory of Student Departure in Commuter College and Universities model to create a new model to examine variables that impact persistence among adult students over the age of twenty-five in a degree-completion program at the bachelor's level. An internet-based self-report survey was constructed to measure variables from three constructs including student entry variables, internal campus/academic variables, and external environment variables. The sample came from the Bachelor of Science in Workforce Leadership program at the University of Louisville which includes adults ranging from ages 25-67. Hypotheses were tested through correlational and logistic regression analytic procedures. Educational goal, finances, and active learning were all significant predictors of persistence, controlling for all other variables in the equation and accounted for 35.4% of the variance among all variables. Students who reported higher educational goals, sufficient finances to pay for school, and content relevant active learning were more likely to persist. Implications for theory, research, and practice are highlighted as possible strategic leverage points for creating policies and procedures that will aid in adult student retention in degree completion programs at four-year universities.
Author | : Wesley R. Habley |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2012-06-25 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1118234847 |
INCREASING PERSISTENCE "Of all the books addressing the puzzle of student success and persistence, I found this one to be the most helpful and believe it will be extremely useful to faculty and staff attempting to promote student success. The authors solidly ground their work in empirical research, and do a brilliant job providing both an overview of the relevant literature as well as research-based recommendations for intervention." GAIL HACKETT, PH.D., provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs; professor, counseling and educational psychology, University of Missouri, Kansas City Research indicates that approximately forty percent of all college students never earn a degree anywhere, any time in their lives. This fact has not changed since the middle of the 20th century. Written for practitioners and those who lead retention and persistence initiatives at both the institutional and public policy levels, Increasing Persistence offers a compendium on college student persistence that integrates concept, theory, and research with successful practice. It is anchored by the ACT's What Works in Student Retention (WWISR) survey of 1,100 colleges and universities, an important resource that contains insights on the causes of attrition and identifies retention interventions that are most likely to enhance student persistence.?? The authors focus on three essential conditions for student success: students must learn; students must be motivated, committed, engaged, and self-regulating; and students must connect with educational programs consistent with their interests and abilities. The authors offer a detailed discussion of the four interventions that research shows are the most effective for helping students persist and succeed: assessment and course placement, developmental education initiatives, academic advising, and student transition programming. Finally, they urge broadening the current retention construct, providing guidance to policy makers, campus leaders, and individuals on the contributions they can make to student success.
Author | : Scheg, Abigail G. |
Publisher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2017-08-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1522526838 |
Keeping students engaged and receptive to learning can, at times, be a challenge. However, by implementing new pedagogical methods and tools, instructors can strengthen the drive to learn among their students. Fostering Effective Student Communication in Online Graduate Courses is a pivotal reference source for the latest research findings on the novel techniques and strategies for nurturing communication between students and faculty in virtual learning environments. Featuring extensive coverage on relevant areas such as collaborative work, academic advising, and student retention, this publication is an ideal resource for educators across all disciplines and levels, as well as educational administrators.
Author | : David Boud |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2009-05-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1135265666 |
Postgraduate research has undergone unprecedented change in the past ten years, in response to major shifts in the role of the university and the disciplines in knowledge production and the management of intellectual work. New kinds of doctorates have been established that have expanded the scope and direction of doctoral education. A new audience of supervisors, academic managers and graduate school personnel is engaging in debates about the nature, purpose and future of doctoral education and how institutions and departments can best respond to the increasing demands that are being made. Discussion of the emerging issues and agendas is set within the context of the international policy shifts that are occurring and considers the implications of these shifts on the changing external environment. This engaging book acquaints the readers with new international trends in doctoral education identifies new practices in supervision, research, teaching and learning enables practitioners of doctoral education to contribute to the debates and help shape new understandings questions the purposes of doctoral study and how they are changing considers the balance between equipping students as researchers and the conduct of original research Including contributions from both those who have conducted formal research on research education and those whose own practice is breaking new ground within their universities, this thought-provoking book draws on the expertise of those currently making a stimulating contribution to the literature on doctoral education.
Author | : K. James Walsh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 69 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Academic achievement |
ISBN | : |
As the retention rate of college freshmen increases, Tinto's (1993) model of academic persistence conceptualizes several dimensions of students' voluntary dropout. This study examined both personal and parental factors that may impact the academic persistence decisions of freshmen college students: 1) parental educational attainment; 2) parental valuing of education; 3) high school grade point average (GPA); 4) residential status (on- versus off-campus); 5) educational self-efficacy; 6) self-esteem; 7) personal valuing of education; 8) perceived academic preparation; and 9) academic expectations. The study sample consisted of 378 freshmen college students at a large southwestern university who were recruited from 23 sections of a 100-level class intended to promote academic success. The participants in this cross-sectional study were restricted to freshman level students and 18 and 19 years old in accordance with Erikson's (1968) Identity stage of psychosocial development. A hierarchical regression analysis revealed that academic persistence decisions were predicted by residential status and self-beliefs, which consisted of: educational self-efficacy, self-esteem, personal valuing of education, perceived academic preparation, and academic expectations. Parental valuing of education was a significant predictor of academic persistence decisions until self-beliefs were added to construct the full model. Although self-beliefs were collectively the most powerful predictors of persistence decisions, accounting for 22.8% of the variance, examination of the beta weights revealed that self-esteem, educational self-efficacy, and personal valuing of education were the most powerful predictors, while academic expectations approached significance. Residential status was also a significant predictor and accounted for a small but significant variance (1.6%) in academic persistence decisions. A significant multivariate difference was found between students living on campus and those living off campus. Follow-up ANOVAs revealed differences in mother's education and in parental valuing of education. These findings suggest that researchers, counselors, and college policy-makers consider on-campus living variables as well as students' self-beliefs when considering academic persistence decisions in college freshmen.
Author | : Sharon M. Wavle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : College attendance |
ISBN | : |
Student retention and persistence toward degree completion is a critical concern in higher education. Rapid growth in online programs has raised concerns over lower retention rates demonstrated by online program students. Research suggests that traditional retention metrics are not accurate representations of online program student success. While newer retention models consider external influences on student decisions to persist, little existing retention research considers online program student perspectives regarding their decisions to re-enroll. This study used a mixed-methods approach to examine the long-term semester-to-semester persistence patterns of online program students and increase understanding of the students’ perspectives on their enrollment decisions.Study data included the enrollment histories of 1,940 fall 2020 returning undergraduate online program students at a large public university in the Midwestern United States. Quantitative analysis determined the number and length of enrollment breaks taken from the typical fall/spring pattern. A survey captured student perspectives regarding their decisions to take breaks and later return to their studies. Study findings showed that 47% of fall 2020 returning online students took off at least one semester. In addition, 54% of the students had originally enrolled in on-campus programs, with 75% of those students returning after a long break in enrollment. Survey respondents cited personal health, family responsibilities, and financial concerns as the top three reasons for taking a break. Respondents noted that course design/delivery changes, empathy for their situation, and increased financial assistance could have prevented their enrollment break. Reasons for coming back included improved goals/motivation, feeling ready/better prepared, and improved finances. This study’s findings suggest that traditional measures of student retention may not accurately reflect student success for online program students paving a non-traditional academic path toward a degree. Online programs may increase access to higher education for students balancing work/family responsibilities with academics, and students unable to attend class on-campus due to various physical, mental health or other concerns. This study’s findings also suggest that even though student enrollment decisions can be influenced by external pressures outside the control of the institution, there are instructional design/delivery considerations that can help online students deal with them.
Author | : Benjamin L. Castleman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2015-03-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1317664922 |
Each year, many students with affordable college options and the academic skills needed to succeed do not enroll at all, enroll at institutions where they are not well-positioned for success, or drop out of college before earning a credential. Efforts to address these challenges have included changes in financial aid policy, increased availability of information, and enhanced academic support. This volume argues that the efficacy of these strategies can be improved by taking account of contemporary research on how students make choices. In Decision Making for Student Success, scholars from the fields of behavioral economics, education, and public policy explore contemporary research on decision-making and highlight behavioral insights that can improve postsecondary access and success. This exciting volume will provide scholars, researchers, and higher education administrators with valuable perspectives and low-cost strategies that they can employ to improve outcomes for underserved populations.