The student departure puzzle: do some faculties and programs have answers?
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Article Title | The student departure puzzle: do some faculties and programs have answers? |
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ERA Journal ID | 20348 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Danaher, P. A. (Author), Bowser, Don (Author) and Somasundaram, Jay (Author) |
Journal Title | Higher Education Research and Development |
Journal Citation | 27 (3), pp. 271-280 |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2008 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of Publication | London, United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0729-4360 |
1469-8366 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360802183820 |
Abstract | University attrition prevention strategies are typically generic, centrally managed, whole of university strategies that have emerged from an examination of whole of university attrition data. This paper takes an intra-organisational comparative approach, through the examination of faculty and program attrition rates of students who joined an Australian university in the first term of 2004. The faculty with the highest attrition had a rate two- and-a-half times that of the faculty with the lowest rate, and in programs with 40 or more students enrolled the program with the highest attrition had a rate over five times that of the program with the lowest rate. The paper identifies five practical implications of these findings and concludes that investigating the causes of these differences will help in understanding student attrition. It also suggests that universities wishing to reduce student attrition may benefit from adopting integrated and situated strategies that take into account faculty and program differences. |
Keywords | attrition; Australia; retention; student administration; university policy |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520102. Educational psychology |
390303. Higher education | |
390402. Education assessment and evaluation | |
Public Notes | © 2008 HERDSA. Permanent restricted access to published version in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
Central Queensland University |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9z89q/the-student-departure-puzzle-do-some-faculties-and-programs-have-answers
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