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Peer reviewedBean, John P.; Metzner, Barbara S. – Review of Educational Research, 1985
The purpose of this paper is to describe the rise in nontraditional enrollments, define the nontraditional undergraduate student, and develop a conceptual model of the attrition process for these students. Nontraditional students are more affected by the external environment than by the social integration variables affecting traditional student…
Descriptors: College Students, Dropout Research, Educational Environment, Environmental Influences
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
A causal model to explain student attrition was tested at a major midwestern land-grant university with a sample of 1,513 full-time, unmarried freshmen who were 21 years old or younger. The causal model was reduced from 23 to 10 variables: an intent variable, three attitudinal variables, and two each of organizational, personal, and environmental…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Environment, College Freshmen, Decision Making
Direct linkBean, John P. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1986
Attrition is defined and the importance of understanding factors affecting it at a particular institution are discussed. A retention model is presented, ways that each of the sets of variables affect attrition and methods to reduce attrition are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Admission, College Environment, College Students, Dropout Prevention
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
Bean, John P. – 1981
A model of student attrition was synthesized from psychological, sociological, and educational sources, and contains six sets of variables: background, organizational, personal, environmental, attitudinal, and intent to leave. The model was tested with 1,909 full-time and unmarried university freshmen at a major midwestern university. The sample…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Environment, College Freshmen, Decision Making
