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- Title
Institutional Characteristics and Student Retention: What Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Reveals About Online Learning.
- Authors
Chiyaka, Edward T.; Sithole, Alec; Manyanga, Fidelis; McCarthy, Peter; Bucklein, Brian K.
- Abstract
Online course delivery continues to grow as a viable means of providing increased educational access to more students, but low student retention rates remain a major challenge. In this study, key institutional characteristics that influence student retention in postsecondary education are analyzed. These are studentfaculty ratio, graduation rate, acceptance rate, enrollment rate, institutional aid rate, default rate, and institution type. Using multivariable regression analysis, our findings show that graduation rate, default rate, and college type were significantly associated with retention rate among online degreegranting institutions. Furthermore, graduation rate was found to be strongly positively linearly related with retention rate, while default rate was strongly negatively linearly related with retention rate. Overall these findings have direct implications on the planning and management of online instruction.
- Subjects
SCHOOL dropouts; POSTSECONDARY education; ONLINE education
- Publication
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2016, Vol 19, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1556-3847
- Publication type
Article