Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle

John M Braxton

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Edité par Vanderbilt University Press, 2000

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More than a quarter of the students who enter four-year institutions and half of those who enter two-year schools depart at the end of their first year. This phenomenon is known as the ""departure puzzle,"" and for years, the most important body of work on student retention has come from sociologist Vincent Tinto. In Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle, leading scholars of the college student experience - including Tinto himself - reevaluate Tinto's interactionalist perspective, which holds that students unable to connect with either the academic or social subsystems of their institutions are likely to leave. Recent critiques of this theory have indicated the need for either its serious revision or the development of a new theory altogether. The contributors to this volume offer a variety of both theoretical and methodological perspectives on student departure, with additional chapters covering minority student retention, the link between college choice and student persistence, and the effect of the classroom experience on the student's choice. The recommendations made here will not only reinvigorate research on this important topic but will also lead administrators to better mana.…

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Titre
Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle
Auteur
John M Braxton
Éditeur
Vanderbilt University Press
Année de publication
2000
État de l'article
Good
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Hardback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0826513085
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780826513083

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