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- Title
Closing the gate: Part-Time faculty instruction in gatekeeper courses and first-year persistence.
- Authors
Eagan, M. Kevin; Jaeger, Audrey J.
- Abstract
This chapter reports the results of a large study on the effects of part-time faculty on student persistence and suggests that administrators give careful consideration when trying to reduce expenses through the use of such faculty in large beginning courses.
- Subjects
COLLEGE students; PERSISTENCE (Personality trait); UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; LEARNING; STUDENTS; EDUCATION
- Publication
New Directions for Teaching & Learning, 2008, Vol 2008, Issue 115, p39
- ISSN
0271-0633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/tl.324