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Background Across higher education, student retention, progression, and graduation are considered essential elements of students’ academic success. However, there is scarce literature analyzing these attributes across health professions education.
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Reflections: Rethinking Engagement and Student Persistence
We are delighted to feature this timely reflective article on Rethinking Engagement and Student Persistence by Professor Vincent Tinto, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University, United States of America (USA).
Vincent Tinto
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The tutor’s role in enhancing student retention in distance learning is paramount. This study aims to predict retention and not actual retention by investigating how tutoring support predicts student retention in distance learning at the University of ...
Vera Arhin, John Ekow Laryea
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In a study I conducted in local private higher education institutions, it was observed that the most important reasons for student retention are outstanding personalized attention by tutors, school authorities, staff and professors, followed by the economic factor and academic achievement.
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Though theories about retention and student development have been in the literature for decades, they have mainly existed in silos with little exploration of how they could or should be used together.
Vasti Torres, Lucy LePeau
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This article unveils key variables identified by MIC MAC method (Matrix of Crossed Impacts Multiplication Applied to Classification) related to student dropout from the business administration program of the National Open and Distance University-UNAD ...
María Erika Narváez-Ferrín +1 more
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Pre-commencement interviews to support transition and retention of first year undergraduate students
This paper reports the findings of a pilot study conducted at a regional university in Australia involving a pre-commencement interview strategy that aimed to better support first-year students transitioning into an undergraduate nursing program. The aim
Denise Wood +2 more
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An evaluation of initiatives implemented to support undergraduate students’ transition into Higher Education at one post-1992 university [PDF]
Supporting students in the transition to Higher Education is crucial to improving retention. Set in a post-1992 university, admitting a high proportion of students from a widening participation background, this paper analyses first year undergraduate ...
Armstrong, Christine
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Student Retention Analytics: Modeling the Effect of Poverty on College Student Retention
ABSTRACT: Utility maximization theory is used to construct a rational choice model that examines the effects of the determinants of college student retention. The current research examines the impact that poverty has on year-to-year student persistence probabilities for freshmen students enrolled at a multicampus nonprofit private university that ...
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Commitment Threshold – On Student Retention in MOOCs
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Erkki Kaila +3 more
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