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Schmidt, Henk G.; Cohen-Schotanus, Janke; van der Molen, Henk T.; Splinter, Ted A. W.; Bulte, Jan; Holdrinet, Rob; van Rossum, Herman J. M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
In this article, an alternative for Tinto's integration theory of student persistence is proposed and tested. In the proposed theory, time available for individual study is considered a major determinant of both study duration and graduation rate of students in a particular curriculum. In this view, other activities in the curriculum, in…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Graduation Rate, Structural Equation Models, Lecture Method
Gijselaers, Wim H.; Schmidt, Henk G. – 1992
A study was done of the relation of time for individual study versus instruction time in a non-traditional, problem-based medical curriculum at the University of Limburg (Netherlands). The study collected data on 86 courses conducted in 5 consecutive academic years. In this problem-based approach, each curriculum year in the first 4 years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Independent Study, Medical Education