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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Student Persistence"”.
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Multivariate approach to predicting student persistence, A
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Test optional admissions, student persistence, and equity in higher education
… of standardized testing requirements affects student persistence, particularly among historically underserved populations (Engle & Tinto, 2008; Goldrick-Rab, 2016). Guided by Astin’s Input–Environment–Outcome Model (1993) and Tinto’s Student Integration Model (2012), this dissertation examines …
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Improving Community College Student Persistence: An Investigation of Promising Practices
… understand more fully the factors that influence student persistence. The purpose of this study was to add to the understanding of community college practices and student persistence at the institution level. The study included survey responses and IPEDS data for a nationally representative sample …
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Understanding community college affordability and its impact on student persistence
… study conducted used six cycles to discover students' perceptions about tuition affordability, to understand the budget of the community college, examined staff experiences and opinions about students, and studied advisement strategies as a means to inform students of tuition payment options. …
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Teacher Matters: Teacher Normative Influence and Student Persistence in College
… extends the work on teacher immediacy (TI) and student persistence by using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) (Ajzen, 1985) to account for variability in college student persistence. Students provided perceptions of their teachers’ immediacy behaviors using modified versions of Gorham’s …
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More than Money Matters: An Integrated Model of Graduate Student Persistence
Graduate student persistence rarely has been studied, yet it is a very important issue for many higher education constituents—including senior administrators, academic deans, faculty members, students, and families. In light of an alarming statistic that approximately 50% of all graduate students …
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Non-Traditional Distance Learners: Student Persistence In A Rural Remote Community
… located in rural northeastern Minnesota, has student completion rates of 90% and higher. CCHE has attributed the student persistence to its external support services, such as mentoring, technology support, study skills, attitude, and financial resources. With the national call for increased …
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Relation of Student Persistence in College to Satisfaction With 'Environmental' Factors
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The Impact of cultural and social capital on FTIC student persistence
… literature to understand the differences in student persistence. Bourdieu's theories (1986, 1993, 1973), through their various applications, have provided evidence that the influence of social and cultural capital on student achievement varies based on the context of the study (Sternberg et …
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Two-Year College Faculty Perspectives On Developmental Student Persistence: A Case Study
… college composition faculty concerning the persistence of students in their developmental composition courses. Research has shown that developmental students are a population at risk for leaving college before completing their degree programs and that students are more likely to persist to …
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Why Did They Stay? A Mixed Methods Approach to Understand Student Persistence
… capital as a theoretical framework to understand student persistence. The research design is a mixed-methods approach, using data collected through the Social and Cultural Capital Questionnaire and interviews with select survey participants. The sample includes seniors who entered college in the …
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Analysis of University Personnel's Perception of Institutional Factors Impacting Student Persistence/Retention
… efforts are most directly impacting student attrition. This study identified important institutional factors impacting student attrition/retention using university personnel. It also measured personnel perception of how satisfactorily addressed were institutional factors impacting …
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Application of Systems Engineering Analysis Methods to Examine Engineering Transfer Student Persistence
… States continues to grow, yet the number of students entering post-secondary education is declining, and graduation rates have seen little to no change over the last several decades. Engineering transfer students are a growing population and can help meet the nation's needs, however, there is …
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AN EXAMINATION OF STUDENT FINANCIAL SECURITY AND STUDENT PERSISTENCE DECISION-MAKING IN COLLEGE
… purpose of this study is to ascertain whether a student’s sense of financial security can increase the degree of predictability of retention over and above the more traditional predictors typically found in the literature, and to get a better sense for how student financial security impacts …
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Relationship Of Grit, Volition, And Mindset To Undergraduate Student Persistence Of Nontraditional Students
… of grit, volition, and mindset to student persistence in undergraduate degree programs by students considered nontraditional and at-risk at three campuses of a for-profit university in New England. Nontraditional students are faced with barriers to success in education. Despite …
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Adult basic education student persistence: A case study approach in a Saskatchewan context
Understanding student persistence in Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs have been insufficiently researched. There has been quite a bit of research on challenges with which many ABE students struggle (i.e., financial, transportation, child-care, etc.), but there are minimal studies completed …
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¡Si se pudo! Exploring Mexican American college student persistence stories during COVID-19
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Poverty and the public school system: Student persistence from elementary school to college graduation
… and upper classes (Kim-Cohen et al., 2004). Students living in poverty generally have fewer opportunities in schools as schools are less likely to offer rigorous curriculum or advanced classes for poor children (Burney & Belike, 2008). ). Education can be a sufficient route out of poverty for …
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Priorities and student satisfaction as a function of student persistence for adult online learners
… research has focused on the relationship between persistence and attributes present in the undergraduate online adult learner population. One of the many factors that influences a student’s likelihood to persist is student satisfaction. Previous researchers who studied the relationship between …
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A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY OF STUDENT PERSISTENCE IN A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN FORESTRY PROGRAM
… challenges, leaders must shift their focus to student retention. By understanding the factors that influence student engagement and persistence, these leaders will be better positioned to support students in forestry programs, thus positively impacting retention. This qualitative case study …
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