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Billings, Diane M. – American Journal of Distance Education, 1988
Describes conceptual model that helps explain why students drop out of correspondence courses. Student background characteristics, organizational setting and the environment, attitudes about education, and course instruction are linked with behavioral intent and lesson submission activity to determine variables that influence completion of…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Assignments, Correspondence Study, Dropout Research