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Peer reviewedBean, John P. – Research in Higher Education, 1980
The determinants of student attrition in higher education institutions are investigated using a causal model which synthesized research findings on job turnover and on student attrition. Many male/female differences were found but three surrogate measures for pay were found for both sexes to be related to intent to leave. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Dropout Characteristics, Females
Download full textThomas, Robert O.; Bean, John P. – 1988
Institutional variables are examined in an effort to account for the differences in retention rates at institutions classified as Liberal Arts Colleges II. The four study objectives were to: (1) develop a theoretical model to explain retention rates at different Liberal Arts Colleges II in which the institution is the unit of the analysis, (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Attendance, Colleges, Educational Finance
Peer reviewedBean, John P. – Review of Higher Education, 1983
Analysis of a survey of freshman women at a land-grant university included 12 possible determinants of student satisfaction, intent to leave the college, and dropout. The labor model seems applicable to colleges and universities, but is not sufficient to explain the dropout process. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Dropout Research, Females, Higher Education
Bean, John P. – 1981
A causal model to explain student attrition was tested at a major midwestern land-grant university with a sample of 1,513 full-time, unmarried freshmen who were 21 years old or younger. The causal model was reduced from 23 to 10 variables: an intent variable, three attitudinal variables, and two each of organizational, personal, and environmental…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Environment, College Freshmen, Decision Making
Direct linkBean, John P. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1986
Attrition is defined and the importance of understanding factors affecting it at a particular institution are discussed. A retention model is presented, ways that each of the sets of variables affect attrition and methods to reduce attrition are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Admission, College Environment, College Students, Dropout Prevention
Peer reviewedMetzner, Barbara S.; Bean, John P. – Research in Higher Education, 1987
Data were gathered from nontraditional (commuter, part-time) freshmen at a midwestern urban university. Dropout was a function of grade point average and credit hours enrolled, as well as the utility of education for future employment, satisfaction with the student role, opportunity to transfer, and age affecting dropout through intent to leave.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, Commuter Colleges, Commuting Students
Bean, John P. – 1981
A model of student attrition was synthesized from psychological, sociological, and educational sources, and contains six sets of variables: background, organizational, personal, environmental, attitudinal, and intent to leave. The model was tested with 1,909 full-time and unmarried university freshmen at a major midwestern university. The sample…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Environment, College Freshmen, Decision Making
