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Expanding the Student Persistence Puzzle to Minority Serving Institutions: The Residential Historically Black College and University Context
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Baker, Dominique J.; Arroyo, Andrew T.; Braxton, John M.; Gasman, Marybeth; Francis, Clay H. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2021
The prevailing theories of student persistence have been developed in Predominantly White Institutional (PWI) contexts. The extent to which these theories--in whole or in part--apply to Minority Serving Institutions such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) has not been studied in depth. This study tests a PWI-based theory of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Colleges, Residential Institutions, Educational Theories
Toward an Institutional Databases Audit to Improve College Student Persistence
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Ellison, Bert; Braxton, John M.; Lang, Melissa; Grant, Kelly – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2020
The "institutional databases audit" addresses common challenges of retention research by viewing existing databases and key surveys as resources for analyzing persistence rates. Such an audit helps verify whether student database elements have theoretically derived research referents. Positive results show that institutions can acquire…
Descriptors: Databases, Audits (Verification), College Students, Academic Persistence
The Fulfillment of Expectations for College and Student Departure Decisions.
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Helland, Patricia A.; Stallings, Hilary J.; Braxton, John M. – Journal of College Student Retention, 2002
Examined how the fulfillment of college expectations affects students' social integration. Path analysis showed that the fulfillment of social expectations for college positively affects both social integration and subsequent institutional commitment; the greater the degree of these, the more likely students will re-enroll in the university. (EV)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Attendance, College Students, Dropout Research
The Influence of Stress-Related Coping Strategies on College Student Departure Decisions.
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Bray, Nathaniel J.; Braxton, John M.; Sullivan, Anna Shaw – Journal of College Student Development, 1999
Study elaborates on Tinto's (1975) theory of student departure by focusing on the concept of social integration. Examining freshmen at a Research I institution using three quantitative instruments, study finds that how students deal with stress impacts their level of social integration, institutional commitment, and intent to reenroll. (Contains…
Descriptors: College Students, Coping, Dropout Research, Dropouts
The Role of Active Learning in College Student Persistence
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Braxton, John M.; Jones, Willis A.; Hirschy, Amy S.; Hartley, Harold V., III – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
Active learning, which entails any class activity that "involves students doing things and thinking about the things that they are doing," stands as an important pedagogical practice. Discussion, the types of questions faculty ask students in class, role playing, cooperative learning, debates, and the types of questions faculty ask on examinations…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Private Colleges, Role Playing, Cooperative Learning
Faculty Teaching Skills and Their Influence on the College Student Departure Process.
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Braxton, John M.; Bray, Nathaniel J.; Berger, Joseph B. – Journal of College Student Development, 2000
Examines the influence of student perceptions of faculty teaching skills on social integration, subsequent institutional commitment, and student departure decisions. Using path analysis to consider this link, the findings demonstrate a significant influence of faculty teaching skills on student persistence. Theoretical and practical implications…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Students, Enrollment Influences
Expectations for College and Student Persistence.
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Braxton, John M.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1995
A multi-institutional study of 263 first-time college freshmen investigated the effects on students' social and academic integration of having expectations for college remain unmet. Results are discussed in terms of implications for enrollment management and the linkage of theories concerning college choice and student departure. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Career Development, College Choice, College Environment
The Influence of Active Learning on the College Student Departure Process: Toward a Revision of Tinto's Theory.
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Braxton, John M.; Milem, Jeffrey F.; Sullivan, Anna Shaw – Journal of Higher Education, 2000
Examined the influence of faculty active-learning practices on student departure decisions in the context of Tinto's Theory of College Student Departure. Path analysis results of three surveys of 718 first-time, full-time, first-year students at a highly selective private research university found that active learning exerts statistically reliable…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Active Learning, College Faculty, College Freshmen