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Michalski, Greg V. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Excessive course attrition is costly to both the student and the institution. While most institutions have systems to quantify and report the numbers, far less attention is typically paid to each student's reason(s) for withdrawal. In this case study, text analytics was used to analyze a large set of open-ended written comments in which students…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, Withdrawal (Education), Data Analysis, Models
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Andreu, Mary Lu – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2002
Lists and defines more than 20 variables that institutional researchers may choose when researching retention at community colleges, based on Tinto's and Bean's models of retention. States that independent variables can be used to develop and implement retention studies at researchers' own institutions. (Contains 23 references.) (AUTH/NB)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Age, Community Colleges, Data Analysis