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ERIC Number: EJ166278
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1977
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Patterns of Student-Faculty Informal Interaction Beyond the Classroom and Voluntary Freshman Attrition
Pascarella, Ernest T.; Terenzini, Patrick T.
Journal of Higher Education, 48, 5, 540-52, Sep/Oct 77
This study tested Tinto's theoretical model of attrition. After controlling for student sex, academic aptitude, and personality attributes, freshman persisters were found to have a significantly higher frequency of interactions along six dimensions than were voluntary leavers. (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts, Failure, Higher Education, Interaction, Student Motivation, Student Teacher Relationship, Success
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