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Sorey, Kellie Crawford.

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Predictors of persistence among community college adult and traditional-aged students.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Predictors of persistence among community college adult and traditional-aged students./
Author:	Sorey, Kellie Crawford.
Description:	167 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3329.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Education, Community College. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3231729
ISBN:	9780542855474

Predictors of persistence among community college adult and traditional-aged students.
Sorey, Kellie Crawford.

Predictors of persistence among community college adult and traditional-aged students. - 167 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3329.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Old Dominion University, 2006.

Previous literature has documented the high attrition rates for community college students. Beyond raw data, research has demonstrated that predictors of higher education persistence may include a student's background characteristics, a student's external commitments, institutional influences, and a combination thereof. However, empirical research on the persistence of community college students is scarce, and even fewer studies address the differential predictors of persistence between adult and traditional-aged students. The present study examined the predictors of institutional persistence among adult and traditional-aged degree-seeking, first-time enrollees at a public, multi-campus two-year community college in southeast Virginia.

ISBN: 9780542855474Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018008
Education, Community College.

Predictors of persistence among community college adult and traditional-aged students.
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520 $a A random sample comprised of 350 traditional-aged and 350 adult students were encouraged to complete a survey questionnaire to measure the following major constructs under study: individual attributes; student enrollment characteristics; external commitments; goal support; intent and commitments; academic integration; and, social integration. The following semester, the previous semester's fall grade-point average was extracted. The enrollment status of each participant was also extracted to determine who had persisted at the institution.
520 $a Using descriptive discriminant function analysis and Independent-Samples t Tests, the predictors of persistence were examined to determine if there are identifiable predictors of institutional persistence for first-time, degree-seeking community college students. These statistical tests were also used to assess if there are differential predictors of institutional persistence between traditional-aged and adult first-time, degree-seeking community college students.
520 $a This study found that there are identifiable predictors of institutional persistence for first-time, degree-seeking community college students. Encouragement and support from friends and family in attending the college discriminated most powerfully between persisters and withdrawers, although social integration, degree utility, academic integration, and institutional commitment also contributed significantly to differentiating the two groups. The current study also found differential predictors of institutional persistence between the traditional-aged and adult students. For traditional-aged students, encouragement and support, academic integration, fall grade-point average, and an expressed intent to leave were most predictive of institutional persistence or withdrawal. Chief among the predictors of persistence for adult students were social integration, institutional commitment, degree utility, encouragement and support, finances, an expressed intent to leave, and academic integration.
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