This section on personal development is one of three that comprise a program entitled Related Instruction for Cooperative Part-Time Training. (Other sections are Basic Life Skills and Job-Related Instruction.) It contains six instructional units. Each unit includes the following basic components: unit and specific objectives, notes to the…

In an effort to identify the motivational factors contributing to student retention or attrition, 487 students at the Mansfield Campus of Ohio State University (MC-OSU), a two-year, commuter campus, were surveyed to determine their characteristics and reasons for choosing MC-OSU and to assess the variances between their perceptions of the real and…