Predictors of first year retention rates at the university of the West Indies, Jamaica

Paterson, Nicola

doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.06.001

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“…Though research on student retention in the USA can be traced back to the 1960s (Tight, 2020), other countries, such as the Caribbean, are relatively new to investigating student retention (e.g. Cheesman et al, 2006;Paterson, 2017). This global research into student retention delineates it an important priority for universities.…”

Section: Foundations Of Attrition Researchmentioning

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Student Retention in Higher Education: Why Students Choose to Remain at University

Nieuwoudt

Pedler

2021

Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Pr

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This research captured the voices of 578 current university students investigating whether they have considered leaving university without completing their studies, what caused them to consider leaving their studies, and explored the reasons that led them to stay. The majority of participants had considered leaving university without completing their course. Multiple factors contributed to this consideration, with family commitments, financial strain, time management, expected study load, and work commitments cited most frequently. Similarly, multiple factors influenced participants’ decision to stay at university, with students’ commitment to achieving personal and career goals, and social support received cited most frequently. Thus, for the majority of participants there were multiple factors that caused them to consider leaving university and there were multiple factors contributing to their decision to stay. This novel research contributes to the limited amount of literature that explores the reasons students stay at university despite experiencing multiple challenges.

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Section: Foundations Of Attrition Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Student Retention in Higher Education: Why Students Choose to Remain at University

Nieuwoudt

Pedler

2021

Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Pr

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“…In looking at ways to improve full time status and residential access at the Caribbean regional university, we need to examine various models of access, retention and student involvement. Paterson and Stewart (2016) examining Astin's (2012) input-environment-output model found that older female students at the time of entry with higher number of courses passed in high school had a higher probability of being retained in university.…”

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“…While research exists on quality issues in tertiary education in the Caribbean (Alleyne, 2015; Gift, Moniquette & Perkins, 2010;Leo-Rhynie, 2005;Roberts, 2007), much of this research is focused on the effects of liberalization and increased competition or an overview of the accreditation process. A few studies have been published (Down, 2010;Edwards-Henry, 2015;Gift, 2015;Paterson & Stewart, 2016) which address assessment and student retention in higher education as it relates to the theory and praxis of teaching, learning and student development and the need to re-think current conceptions and practices.…”

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Bridging the Gap Between Access and Persistence in Higher Education in the Caribbean

Stewart

Paterson

Ferguson

2017

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Currently, Caribbean higher education institutions benefit from relatively high retention rates among students, however they have seen a rise in low on-time, graduation rates. Given this context, this study applies Tinto’s theoretical framework (1975) for understanding and identifying the causes of low student retention and graduation rates at a regional university in Jamaica. Within a United States context, this institution would be considered a predominantly minority-serving institution such as historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) given its large population of Black students. Analysing data from the university’s Student Experience Survey, the results indicate that, academic performance and financial issues were leading factors to non-returning students and low graduation rates. The findings reflect that full-time status is the strongest predictor of GPA and on-time graduation. To bridge the gap between access and persistence, we suggest strategies to improve issues of inequities and academic engagement at both the individual and institutional level.

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“…Third, studies examining trends of dropouts are looking at an intention to drop out rather than actual drop out. Fourth, existing studies insist there are several interplaying factors at play for such student dropouts [ 11 ]. There has also been a line of thought coming through from other reviews on research, which is, the predictive power of each risk antecedent rather than their cumulative effect on dropout over time.…”

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Is Job Shadowing a Panacea for Educational Drop Outs?

Chopra

Menon

2021

The Importance of New Technologies and Entrepreneurship in Business Development: In the Context of Economic Diversity in Develo

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A major concern that is griping the world over is the rise in the number of educational dropouts. This has resulted in impacting society, institutions, Government, and Students themselves. This paper investigates the issues relating to dropouts and also looks at how the pieces of evidence are co-related. It is observed through the findings of a research work carried out in USA and UAE (Sample of eighty five students at each location using multi variate tests analysis) that students without a strategic perspective as well as a non-commitment to education end up having a very poor academic performance. This has a knock-on impact, not only in terms of completion success rates but also demonstrating a high risk of discontinuing or abandoning the degree. Therefore academic performance along with the aspect of practical/experiential learning is a key variable in getting the students to decide their future course of action, which is either to stay or drop out. This paper has adopted a three steps approach in its methodology to identify factors leading to high educational dropouts. They being, student-oriented factors, institution oriented factors, family-oriented factors, community, and social media-oriented factors. Articles were examined based on open coding content analysis to further assess the quality of the facts and data provided. The study does finally extend to how practical approaches like job shadowing could be considered to reduce the dropout rates at every level by understanding the benefits it has to offer.

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Predictors of first year retention rates at the university of the West Indies, Jamaica

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Student Retention in Higher Education: Why Students Choose to Remain at University

Student Retention in Higher Education: Why Students Choose to Remain at University

Bridging the Gap Between Access and Persistence in Higher Education in the Caribbean

Is Job Shadowing a Panacea for Educational Drop Outs?

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