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Beginning To Understand Why Older Students Drop Out of College: A Path Analytic Test of the Bean/Metzner Model of Nontraditional Student Attrition.
Farabaugh-Dorkins, Cheryl – Association for Institutional Research, 1991
The study presented in this document was designed to test, through path analysis, a modified version of the Bean and Metzner (1985) model of nontraditional student attrition in an effort to understand why older students frequently dropped out of a large public university in the Midwest. Four variables from Bean and Metzner's model were deleted and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Dropouts, Higher Education, Models
Participation and Persistence in American Adult Education. Implications for Public Policy and Future Research from a Multivariate Analysis of a National Data Base. Direction Papers in Lifelong Learning.
Anderson, Richard E.; Darkenwald, Gordon G. – 1979
A study was conducted to analyze the sociodemographic determinants of participation, satisfaction, and persistence in American adult education in order to formulate recommendations for public policy regarding access to lifelong learning opportunities. Data were collected from questionnaire responses by a sample of 79,631 adults. Of the total…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Adult Students
9,000 Voices: Student Persistence and Drop-out in Further Education.
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Martinez, Paul; Munday, Felicity – FEDA Report, 1998
Reasons why some students complete further education (FE) and others drop-out were examined in a study involving a sample of 9,000 students and staff from 31 inner city, urban, and rural FE colleges throughout the United Kingdom. Data were collected from the following sources: interviews with FE college managers, staff, and students; review of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Adult Learning, College Role