Retention and student success in higher education
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Retention and student success in higher education
(SRHE and Open University Press imprint / general editor, Heather Eggins)
Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2004
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- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [150]-164) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
*What is the policy background to current interest in retention and student success?
*What causes students to leave institutions without completing their programmes?
*How can theory and research help institutions to encourage student success?Retention and completion rates are important measures of the performance of institutions and higher education systems. Understanding the causes of student non-completion is vital for an institution seeking to increase the chances of student success.The early chapters of this book discuss retention and student success from a public policy perspective. The later chapters concentrate on theory and research evidence, and on how these can inform institutional practices designed to enhance retention and success (particularly where students are enrolled from disadvantaged backgrounds). This book draws upon international experience, particularly from the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa and the United States.Retention and Student Success in Higher Education is essential reading for lecturers, support staff, and senior managers in higher education institutions, and for those with a wider policy interest in these matters.
Table of Contents
Prologue1 Setting the scene
2Student retention: a macro perspective from South Africa
3Access and Retention in Australian Higher Education
4Access and retention in English higher education: a parliamentary perspective
5Institutional performance
6Theory: a multiplicity of perspectives
7Reconceptualizing antecedents of social integration in student departure
8Why students leave their programmes
9Succeeding against the demographic odds
10Promoting student success
Epilogue
References
Indeces.
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