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Download full textEaton, Shevawn Bogdan; Bean, John P. – 1993
This study developed and estimated a conceptual model of student retention incorporating approach/avoidance behavioral theory with 262 first and second year students at a major midwestern research university. The study applied a theoretical model focusing on the influence of coping behavior on academic and social integration, student intentions,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adjustment (to Environment), College Students, Dropout Research
Bean, John P. – 1982
A causal model of faculty research productivity was developed through a survey of the literature. Models of organizational behavior, organizational effectiveness, and motivation were synthesized into a causal model of productivity. Two general types of variables were assumed to affect individual research productivity: institutional variables and…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship, Goal Orientation
Bean, John P. – 1981
Models that have appeared in the student attrition literature in the past decade and behavioral models from the social sciences that may help explain the dropout process are examined, and an attempt is made to synthesize a causal model of student attrition. The models of Tinto, Spady, and Rootman in the area of student attrition, and models of…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Environment, College Students, Decision Making
