Provides a simplified presentation of a LISREL analysis, a causal analysis technique, including an elementary discussion of the technique itself, and suggestions for useful applications of LISREL for research on college students. Presents analysis of students' commitment to a university. (Author/ABL)

A study demonstrated the use of logistic regression in conjunction with a new structural equations modeling technique for a university attrition study. The results and their methodological implications are discussed. (MSE)

Associations among background, commitment levels, institutional involvement, and student persistence were studied for 260 out of 323 early college dropouts. The model of attrition developed by V. Tinto (1975) was applied. Student persistence was found to vary by motivational type and student's psychosocial orientation to college. (SLD)

Relationships between constructs in the Tinto model of college student withdrawal were explored. Within the Tinto model, LISREL was used to examine: (1) the influence of academic integration on social integration and vice versa; and (2) the effect of goal commitment on institutional commitment and vice versa. Survey data were collected at a major…

The relationships among motivational orientations of entering university freshmen, their involvement in social and academic systems, and persistence/attrition were studied at Arizona State University. Also considered was the applicability of Tinto's theory, which suggests that if background and commitments are equal, the greater the integration of…