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Peer reviewedSweet, Robert – Distance Education, 1986
Describes a survey of 356 adult students enrolled in university-level courses at the Open Learning Institute which was conducted to assess the predictive validity of Tinto's theoretical model of student dropout. It was found that, overall, the Tinto model appears to be a useful framework for such investigations. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Correlation, Discriminant Analysis, Distance Education
