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ERIC Number: EJ458860
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0843-8854
Ethnography Penetrates the "I Didn't Have Time" Rationale to Elucidate Higher Order Reasons for Distance Education Withdrawal.
Garland, Maureen
Research in Distance Education, v5 n1-2 p6-10 Jan-Apr 1993
Ethnography was applied to investigate 47 students' ability to persist in distance education courses in resource management and environment-related subjects. Results have been useful in deriving a classification of situational, institutional, dispositional, and epistemological problems shared by withdrawers and persisters in a broader context. (JOW)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Distance Education, Dropout Characteristics, Ethnography, Higher Education, Thinking Skills, Withdrawal (Education)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Note: Available from Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University, P.O. Box 10,000, Athabasca, Alberta T0G 2R0, Canada.