Factors Affecting Individual Persistence Rates in Undergraduate College Programs

American Educational Research Journal - Tập 15 Số 2 - Trang 233-252 - 1978
Andrew I. Kohen1, Gilbert Nestel2, Constantine Karmas3
1*James Madison University
2The Ohio State University
3Center of Planning and Research, Athens, Greece

Tóm tắt

This study uses a sample drawn from the National Longitudinal Surveys of young men attending college in the 1960’s. Some of the principal conclusions of the multivariate analyses are: (1) Factors determining persistence vary widely with the stage of the undergraduate career; (2) race and parental SES bear no net relation to dropping out; (3) the impact of ability declines with progress toward graduation; (4) entering college in a two-year institution is inversely associated with persistence. These and other findings demonstrate that much previous research has perpetuated erroneous inferences about dropping out of college, not the least of which is that the process can be modeled in a single equation representing the likelihood of graduation by any given group of freshmen.

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American Educational Research Journal

Tập 15 Số 2

233-252

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