The Effect of Freshmen's Perception of Liberal Arts Classes on Their Dropout Intention

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out whether freshmen's perception of liberal arts classes has a significant effect on their dropout intention. To this end, it was analyzed freshmen's perceptions of experience and satisfaction with liberal arts classes compared to other grades, and confirmed whether that affect their intention to drop out. As a result, first freshmen's perception of experience and satisfaction in liberal arts classes were more positive compared to other grades, and in particular, it was significantly higher than that of second graders. Second, unlike other grades, only in the case of freshmen, the perception of 'teaching-learning activities' among the liberal arts class experience affected to the dropout intention. This can be attributed to not only the ratio of freshmen taking liberal arts classes being higher than in other grades but also the teaching-learning activities of liberal arts classes, which they experience for the first time as university students, representing the experience of higher education. Third, it was found that satisfaction with liberal arts classes did not affect dropout in all grades. This seems to be because, even for freshmen, college satisfaction is greatly affected by factors outside of class, such as interpersonal experience and social experience, as well as class.