Tenacious Persisters: Returning Adult Students in Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Kinser, Kevin; Deitchman, Jay
Titel	Tenacious Persisters: Returning Adult Students in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 9 (2008) 1, S.75-94 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1521-0251
Schlagwörter	Attendance Patterns; Adult Students; Academic Persistence; Stopouts; Comparative Analysis; Community Colleges; Enrollment; Goal Orientation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Ausstieg; Community college; Community College; Einschulung; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung
Abstract	We identify "tenacious persisters" as returning students who have stopped out of college or who delayed their entry into college for more than three years after high school. Using a mixed method approach, we compare the experiences of tenacious persisters enrolled in a community college to students who followed more standard persistence paths. Both groups have similar motivations for attending college at this point in their lives, and similar expectations for achieving their goals. Tenacious persisters, however, attribute much more significance to barriers and personal deficiencies in explaining their past attendance patterns. We conclude that how students persist either as tenacious persisters or standard persisters seems to make a difference in how they view their current attempt at college and the obstacles they may have overcome to be there. (Contains 5 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10