The Determinants of College Student Retention

Autor/in	Guerrero, Adam A.
Titel	The Determinants of College Student Retention
Quelle	(2010), (163 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Dallas
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-1240-9667-4
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Poverty; Private Colleges; Dropout Research; Academic Persistence; School Holding Power; Dropout Prevention; Student Characteristics; Social Influences; Educational Finance; Academic Achievement; Economic Factors; Socioeconomic Influences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Armut; Privathochschule; Sozialer Einfluss; Bildungsfonds; Schulleistung; Ökonomischer Faktor; Sozioökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	This study attempts to add to the college student dropout literature by examining persistence decisions at private, non-selective university using previously unstudied explanatory variables and advanced econometric methods. Three main contributions are provided. First, proprietary data obtained from a type of university that is underrepresented in the literature, a small, multi-campus private university with an open-enrollment admissions policy, are merged with United States census data to empirically examine the relationship between college student dropout and its determinants. While simultaneously controlling for student background, academic, social, financial, and economic characteristics, the researcher scrutinizes the relationship between college student dropout and a wide range of explanatory variables including but not limited to a direct measure of student social integration, zip-code-based poverty rates, the percent of the adult population with a bachelor's degree or higher, location, and major specificity. Finally, to account for the fact that college student departure is a multi-stage, longitudinal event, cross-sectional models are expanded to consider the temporal dimensions of persistence decisions. Emphasis is placed on a statistical approach new to the persistence literature, a discrete-time, multinomial logit event history model. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10