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Rethinking college student retention /
"Drawing on studies funded by the Lumina Foundation, the nation's largest private foundation focused solely on increasing Americans' success in higher education, the authors revise current theories of college student departure, making the important distinction between residential and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco, CA :
Jossey-Bass,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Series; Preface; Organization of This Book; Intended Audience for the Book; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Rethinking College Student Retention; Current Status of Theory on College Student Persistence; Questions Pursued by This Book; Retention and Persistence; Part I: Recommendations for Policy and Practice; Chapter 2: State Policy and Student Success; Structural Constraints; Policy Levers; Conclusions and Questions for Policymakers; Endnotes; Chapter 3: Recommendations for Institutional Policy and Practice.
- Recommendations for Institutional Policy and ActionResidential Colleges and Universities: Multiple Levers for Institutional Action; Commuter Colleges and Universities: Multiple Levers for Institutional Action; In Summary; Part II: Theoretical and Research Context; Chapter 4: Explaining College Student Persistence; Economic Perspective; Organizational Perspective; Psychological Perspective; Sociological Perspective; Tinto's Interactionalist Theory; Chapter 5: The Revision of Tinto's Theory for Residential Colleges and Universities; The Revised Theory; Narrative Form of the Revised Theory.
- Analytical Cascading: Extensions of the Theory of Student Persistence in Residential Colleges and UniversitiesChapter Summary; Chapter 6: A Theory of Student Persistence in Commuter Colleges and Universities; The Theory and Its Derivation; Analytical Cascading: Extensions of the Theory of Student Persistence in Commuter Colleges and Universities; Chapter Summary; Chapter 7: Design of the Studies; The Residential College and University Study; The Commuter College and University Study; Part III: Key Factors in Student Persistence in Residential and Commuter Colleges and Universities.
- Chapter 8: Student Persistence in Residential Colleges and UniversitiesOur Test of the Revised Theory of Student Persistence in Residential Colleges and Universities; Overall Appraisal of Empirical Support for the Revised Theory of Student Persistence in Residential Colleges and Universities; Significant Influences on Psychosocial Engagement, Commitment of the Institution to Student Welfare, and Institutional Integrity; In Summary; Chapter 9: Student Persistence in Commuter Colleges and Universities; Our Test of the Theory of Student Persistence in Commuter Colleges and Universities.
- Significant Influences on Core FactorsIn Summary; Chapter 10: Conclusions and a Call for Further Research; Conclusions; Implications for Theory; A Call for Further Research; Closing Thoughts; Endnotes; Appendix A: Design of the Studies Tables; Appendix B: Technical Appendix for Statistical Procedures; Appendix C: Multivariate Analyses Results Tables; References; Index; Cross-Merchandising Advertisements.