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ERIC Number: EJ645752
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-1066-8926
Developing and Implementing Local-Level Retention Studies: A Challenge for Community College Institutional Researchers.
Andreu, Mary Lu
Community College Journal of Research and Practice, v26 n4 p333-344 May 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, Demography, Dropout Research, Educational Research, Longitudinal Studies, Minority Groups, Models, Outcomes of Education, School Holding Power, Sex, Student Attrition, Two Year Colleges, Withdrawal (Education)
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Bean Metzner Model; Tinto Model