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Encouraging engagement in enabling programs: The students’ perspective

Student Success, 2017
Student retention is a key concern in tertiary education enabling programs with research showing that early engagement leads to higher completion rates (Hodges et al., 2013). But how do students new to university education learn how to engage effectively?
Suzi Hellmundt, Dallas Baker
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Use of machine learning to assess factors affecting progression, retention, and graduation in first-year health professions students in Qatar: a longitudinal study

BMC Medical Education, 2023
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.
Dalal Hammoudi Halat, Abdel-Salam G. Abdel-Salam, Ahmed Bensaid, Abderrezzaq Soltani, Lama Alsarraj, Roua Dalli, Ahmed Malki   +6 more
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Prediction of early dropout in higher education using the SCPQ

Cogent Psychology, 2022
There is enormous concern at the international level vis-à-vis the retention of students in universities. Given that dropout rates and their social repercussions are causing great concern worldwide, researchers have been examining this issue to establish
Emilio Jesús Lizarte Simón, José Gijón Puerta   +1 more
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Enhancing the early student experience [PDF]

, 2006
This paper is concerned with identifying how the early student experience can be enhanced in order to improve levels of student retention and achievement.
Astin A. W., Becher T., Biggs J., Blythman M., Boud D., Brown G., Carole A. Roberts, Cowan J., Earwaker J., Eileen Trotter, Fitzgibbon K., Floud R., George J., Glesne C., Gutteridge R., Heywood J., Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Hudson B., Jaques D., Johnson G. M., Johnston V., Jones P. C., Kolb D. A., Krause K.‐L., Light G., Martinez P., McInnis C., McInnis C., Mortiboys A., Neumann R., Pascarella E. T., Raaheim K., Tinto V., Tinto V., Yorke M., Yorke M.   +35 more
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Predicting Engineering Student Retention [PDF]

2004 Annual Conference Proceedings, 2020
Comment: 10 ...
Eugene P. Deess, Kamal Joshi, Vladimir Briller, Raymond Calluori   +3 more
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Factors Contributing to Student Retention in Online Learning and Recommended Strategies for Improvement: A Systematic Literature Review

J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Res., 2019
Aim/Purpose: This systematic literature review investigates the underlying factors that influence the gap between the popularity of online learning and its completion rate.
P. Muljana, Tian Luo
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Tutoring support as a predictor of student retention in distance learning: The case of a University in Ghana

Open Praxis, 2020
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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Understanding the Synergistic Relationship between Student Retention and Student Development Theories

Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2022
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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Pre-commencement interviews to support transition and retention of first year undergraduate students

Student Success, 2016
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, Gillian Gray-Ganter, Robyn Bailey   +2 more
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Using a maturity model to move student engagement practices beyond the generational approach [PDF]

, 2013
This paper proposes that the generational approach to conceptualising first year student learning behaviour, while it has made a very useful contribution to understanding that behaviour, can be expanded upon.
Clarke, John, Creagh, Tracy, Nelson, Karen, Stoodley, Ian   +3 more
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