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February 2004 Volume 19, Number 1

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Table of Contents

Number of articles: 7

  1. Higher Education's Revolving Door: Confronting the Problem of Student Drop out in US Colleges and Universities

    Betsy O. Barefoot

    The high rate of student dropout between the first and second year of college is a major concern for the majority of US colleges and universities. But dropout (or stop out) from higher education... More

    pp. 9-18

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  2. Retention, Persistence and Success in On-Campus Higher Education, and Their Enhancement in Open and Distance Learning

    Mantz Yorke

    Terms such as retention and persistence reflect the interests of different parties. Much of the empirical and theoretical literature deals with retention from a "supply-side" perspective. This... More

    pp. 19-32

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  3. Understanding Persistence in Adult Learning

    Veronica McGivney

    The paper summarizes recent data on the retention and non-completion patterns of adult students, especially those over the age of 25 who have had a gap since completing full-time education. While... More

    pp. 33-46

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  4. Conceptualizing Student Dropout in Part-Time Distance Education: Pathologizing the Normal?

    Alan Woodley

    This paper reviews the development of thinking about student dropout in general and also how this thinking has been adapted in the field of open and distance learning. It looks critically at the... More

    pp. 47-63

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  5. Monitoring Student Retention in the Open University: Definition, Measurement, Interpretation and Action

    Alison Ashby

    Attempts to improve retention in conventional college settings in the United States (see Barefoot article in this issue) have emphasized the importance of institutions having good information... More

    pp. 65-77

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  6. The Impact on Retention of Interventions to Support Distance Learning Students

    Ormond Simpson

    There is increasing interest in student retention in open and distance learning. This article looks at the role of proactive interventions from the institution to its students and discusses... More

    pp. 79-95

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  7. The Tutor/Facilitator Role in Student Retention

    Jo Tait

    Open and distance learning provide particular (and sometimes overlapping) contexts for discussions of student retention. This paper argues that the environment for learning created by distance... More

    pp. 97-109

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