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Patrick, William J. – 2000
This study examined first-year attrition at a large, urban university in the United Kingdom, demonstrating the application of multilevel modeling to the issue of student attrition. A sample of 2,679 full-time, first-year students studying the 20 most common subject areas was identified. Students were divided into four groups depending on their…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Admission, College Freshmen, Dropout Rate
Geisinger, Kurt F. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1979
Results of a study of the relationship between students' propensities to withdraw from a course and the faculty member's grading in that course show that students do use the option to withdraw from courses when grades tend to be low in order to protect their grade point averages. (JMD)
Descriptors: Academic Records, College Students, Grade Inflation, Grade Point Average

Schaufeli, Wilmar B. – Journal of Adolescence, 1997
Investigated the causation hypothesis (unemployment leads to poor mental health), and the selection hypothesis (poor mental health reduces employment) in a longitudinal study of 635 college graduates and 767 school leavers. Results confirmed the causation hypothesis for school-leavers but not college graduates. Employment and further education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis
Sharma, Raj; Burgess, Zena – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1994
A study of 377 students in an Australian technological institution of higher education investigated the personal, demographic, institutional, and environmental factors associated with dropping out before program completion. Based on the findings, recommendations are made for program adjustments and improved services to accommodate student needs…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Environment, College Students, Colleges

Tierney, William – Journal of Higher Education, 1992
The widely accepted theory that college participation is a "rite of passage," where academic and social integration is required for student persistence, is criticized as misinterpreting anthropological notions of ritual and holding consequences harmful for racial and ethnic minorities. An approach focusing on emancipation and empowerment is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Anthropology, College Students

Kennett, Deborah J. – Studies in Higher Education, 1994
A study investigated how persistence in an academic self-management course related to self-control. Results indicate that the students dropping out had a limited repertoire of general learned resourcefulness skills. However, both high- and low-resourceful students who completed the course used the skills they learned and achieved comparable final…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, High Risk Students, Higher Education

Blackorby, Jose; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1991
This study analyzed demographic characteristics, referral to special education, and high-school history of students with mild disabilities, including 462 dropouts and 291 graduates. Results indicated that many "dropouts" actually returned to school and sometimes graduated, overall dropout rate was alarmingly high, and school interruptions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Comparative Analysis, Dropout Characteristics

Peterson, Shari L. – Research in Higher Education, 1993
A study of 418 academically underprepared college students found a positive correlation between students' perceptions of their career decision-making self-efficacy and their overall social and academic adjustment to the academic environment. Further research into career decision-making self-efficacy is recommended, particularly for intervention to…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Career Development, College Students, Decision Making

Helm, Edward; Sedlacek, William; Prieto, Dario – Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 1998
A study of 343 African-American university freshmen showed interest in various career issues useful to advisors. Students most often reported attending college for job-related reasons, with males more likely than females to leave college to take a job. However, females were less sure of getting a job after graduation. A career advising model based…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Black Students, Career Counseling, College Attendance
Golde, Chris M. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1998
A study of 58 doctoral students in four departments notes four general tasks of transition and initial socialization into graduate student life and future career: intellectual mastery; learning realities of graduate student life; learning about the profession; and integrating into the department. Some reasons for leaving a doctoral program are…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Departments, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students

Eaton, Shevawn Bogdan; Bean, John P. – Research in Higher Education, 1995
A model of attrition based on theory of approach/avoidance behavior was developed and tested with 262 university students, mostly in their first and second years. The study demonstrated that certain approach/avoidance behaviors affected certain types of academic and social integration more than others, and that integration may be more complex than…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Dropout Characteristics
Wilcox, Paula; Winn, Sandra; Fyvie-Gauld, Marylynn – Studies in Higher Education, 2005
This article argues that to understand higher education student retention, equal emphasis needs to be placed on successful integration into the social world of the university as into the academic world. To date, sociological research reflecting first-year students' perceptions of the processes involved in developing social lives at university is…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Student Experience
Caison, Amy L. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2005
Drawing on Tinto's (1987, 1993) theory of student integration, this research examines students who withdrew from their original institution prior to graduation. Of this group, some of the students who withdraw do so to transfer to another institution, and it is reasonable to assume that these students are different in many ways from students who…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Higher Education
Brawer, Florence B. – 1996
Concern about retention and attrition rates in higher education have increased over the years and efforts to identify and treat potential dropouts have grown considerably. Studies investigating the retention and attrition of community college students have found specific characteristics related to outcomes, including full- or part-time attendance,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Dropout Research, Dropouts
McGivney, Veronica – 1996
This book combines findings of existing research with fresh evidence supplied from a sample of institutions regarding noncompletion rates of mature students in postcompulsory education. Chapter 1 considers the changes that have taken place in postcompulsory education and the implications of having an expanded and more diverse student population.…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Students, Age Differences, Ancillary School Services