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| Autor/inn/en | Terenzini, Patrick T.; Pascarella, Ernest T. |
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| Titel | The Role of Students' Backgrounds and Levels of Academic and Social Integration in College Attrition: A Test of A Model. |
| Quelle | (1978), (30 Seiten)
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| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Academic Persistence; College Freshmen; Dropout Attitudes; Dropout Characteristics; Dropout Research; Factor Analysis; Higher Education; Interaction; Models; Predictor Variables; Racial Factors; Sex Differences; Social Integration; Statistical Data; Student Attitudes; Student Attrition; Student Characteristics |
| Abstract | To test Tinto's theory of college attrition, a longitudinal study involving 766 students enrolled in Syracuse University in September 1975 was conducted to determine whether freshmen persisters and voluntary dropouts differed on certain attitudinal and behavioral measures of academic and social integration once selected background characteristics had been statistically controlled. Multiple regression was used to assess the relative importance of four sets of variables: pre-college characteristics; level of academic integration; level of social integration; and interactions between sex, major, and racial or ethnic origins and each of the social and academic integration variables. The results indicate that pre-college traits are not significantly related to attrition, but that the other three sets are, with the interactions explaining the largest proportion of the variance, followed by the academic and social integration sets in that order. These findings suggest that Tinto's theory may be conceptually useful in studying attrition, but also that certain revisions in the model may be needed. (Author/SPG) |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
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