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Peer reviewedMallette, Bruce I.; Cabrera, Alberto F. – Research in Higher Education, 1991
A study investigated whether determinants of college students' decisions to withdraw from an institution are similar to those affecting decisions to transfer to other institutions. Subjects (n=2,954) were entering freshmen at a state university. Results indicated different factors discriminated between persisters and dropouts and between…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Dropout Characteristics, Higher Education
Peer reviewedEimers, Mardy T.; Pike, Gary R. – Research in Higher Education, 1997
A survey of 799 freshmen at a residential, public research university found perceived school quality had a significant effect on intent to persist for minorities but not for non-minorities, and academic achievement had a significant effect for non-minorities but not for minorities. However, similarities between the groups were more common than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedMurtaugh, Paul A.; Burns, Leslie D.; Schuster, Jill – Research in Higher Education, 1999
Survival analysis was used to model retention of 8,867 undergraduate students at Oregon State University from 1991 to 1996. Attrition increased with age and nonresident status; it decreased with higher high-school and first-quarter grades, and attendance in a freshman orientation course. Retention was also associated with race/ethnicity and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Age Differences, Case Studies
