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Towles, David E.; And Others – 1993
Student-faculty contact is widely accepted as influencing retention within campus-based programs. The difficulties of implementing such contact within a distance learning environment magnify its importance as a topic for investigation. This study sought to evaluate the effect of faculty initiated contacts on student persistence within a large…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Distance Education
Takalkar, Pradnya; And Others – 1993
This study compared 4,594 student responses from three different surveys of incoming students at the University of South Florida (USF) with data from Florida's State University System (SUS) admissions files to determine what proportion of error occurs in the survey responses. Specifically, the study investigated the amount of measurement error in…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, College Bound Students, Comparative Analysis