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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"institutional departure"”.
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Use of the College Student Inventory to Predict At-Risk Student Success and Persistence at a Metropolitan University
Using Tinto's longitudinal model of institutional departure as the theoretical basis for this research, the purpose was to determine what extent selected motivational factors measured by the College Student Inventory (CSI) predict academic success and persistence of at-risk students at the …
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Student Transition at a Residential STEM School
… STEM school. Factors from Tinto’s Model of Institutional Departure were used as the framework to capture the transition of gifted high school students from traditional high school to The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky, a statewide residential STEM school. …
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Nontraditional reentry women in community college
… reenter a community college after a prolonged departure. Experiences are examined through the lens of Tinto’s Theory of Institutional Departure, as well as Deci and Ryan’s Self Determination Theory. While there is strong desire for educational attainment, early college experiences lack the …
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The effectiveness of Student Support Services at a research extensive university in the South
… of 1997. Tinto’s (1987) longitudinal model of institutional departure was used as the conceptual framework for this study. Services provided by the SSS program were examined to determine whether they were academic (formal) and social (informal) and if student participation encouraged …
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Student success and geography: An analysis of contributing factors that determine college academic achievement and persistence of Black males
… by the theoretical frameworks of Tinto’s student institutional departure model and Astin’s Input-Environment-Output model to assess Black male decisions to stay or leave college.</p> <p>Descriptive statistics were used to calculate the means and percentages for all independent and dependent …
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Experiences Assisting or Hindering the Academic and Social Integration of African American Students at Southwestern Michigan College
… case study used Tinto’s longitudinal model of institutional departure to investigate the experiences of six African American students at a rural community college in southwestern Michigan. Analysis of the data from a series of semi-structured interviews revealed a variety of experiences that …
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Providing Co-Curricular Support: A Multi-Case Study of Engineering Student Support Centers
… (MCCS), which is a version of Tinto's Model of Institutional Departure that I repurposed to demonstrate the breadth of co-curricular assistance required to comprehensively support undergraduate engineering students. The MCCS illustrates how a student's interaction with the academic, social, and …
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Longitudinal exploration of student retention, pre-entry attributes, and institutional experiences
… sought to describe the pre-entry attributes and institutional experiences had by students in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas Tech University. The purposes of this study also included discovering the likelihood a student will or will not be retained by CASNR …