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Research and Practice of Student Retention: What Next?:
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In this paper, the authors review the state of student retention research and practice, past and present, and look to the future and identify three areas of research, program implementation, and the continuing challenge of promoting the success of low-income students.Abstract:
After reviewing the state of student retention research and practice, past and present, the author looks to the future and identifies three areas of research and practice that call for further exploration. These concern issues of institutional action, program implementation, and the continuing challenge of promoting the success of low-income students.read more
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Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition
TL;DR: In the second edition of this text, Tinto synthesizes far-ranging research on student attrition and on actions institutions can and should take to reduce student attrition as mentioned in this paper, showing that effective retention is in a strong commitment to quality education and the building of a strong sense of inclusive educational and social community on campus.
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Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research
TL;DR: The failure of past research to delineate more clearly the multiple characteristics of dropout can be traced to two major shortcomings as mentioned in this paper, namely, inadequate attention given to questions of definition and to the development of theoretical models that seek to explain, not simply to describe, the processes that bring individuals to leave institutions of higher education.
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Student involvement: A developmental theory for higher education.
TL;DR: The theory of student involvement as mentioned in this paper can explain most of the empirical knowledge about environmental influences on student development that researchers have gained over the years, and it is capable of embracing principles from such widely divergent sources as psychoanalysis and classical learning theory.
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What matters in college? : four critical years revisited
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a study of how students change and develop in college and how colleges can enhance that development based on more than 20,000 students, 25,000 faculty members, and 200 institutions.