Student dropout in distance education: An application of Tinto's model

Sweet, Robert

doi:10.1080/0158791860070204

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“…Tinto (1975) proposed a model for explaining student dropout that includes a combination of individual and organizational variables that influence dropout. Sweet (1986) used this theoretical model and applied it in a study situated in a distance education context. Results of this study partially confirm the relations as proposed by Tinto (1975).…”

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Refining success and dropout in massive open online courses based on the intention–behavior gap

2017

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Welten institute -Research centre for Learning, teaching and technology, open university of the netherlands, Heerlen, the netherlands ABSTRACT In this paper we present an alternative typology for determining success and dropout in massive open online courses (MOOCs). This typology takes the perspectives of MOOC-takers into account and is based on the their intentions and subsequent behaviour. An explorative study using two MOOCs was carried out to test the applicability of the typology. Following the traditional approach based on course completion to identify educational success, success rates were 6.5 and 5.6%. The success rates from the perspectives of the MOOC-taker were 59 and 70%. These findings demonstrate that merely looking at course completion as a measure for success does not suffice in the context of MOOCs. This change in addressing MOOC success and dropout provides an alternative view and demonstrates the importance of MOOC-takers' perspectives.

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2017

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“…Some studies specially advocated for (Thompson, 1984) or used Tinto's attrition model in a distance education context (Bernard & Amundsen, 1989;Sweet, 1986;Taylor, et aI., 1986).…”

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“…In the 1979 study, which was noted by Sweet (1986), Terenzini and Pascarella used the "operational measure of student-faculty informal contact that was drawn from an instrument developed by Wilson, Graff, Dienst, Wood and Bavry" (p.215). Terezini and Pascarella (1979) asked the students six questions regarding informal (i.e.…”

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“…Sweet (1986) Students who dropped out earlier in the semester have a limited timeframe to accrue contacts with the institution. Therefore, the very nature of time that a student is emolled may determine the number of contacts made with the institution.…”

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“…Secondly, Sweet (1986) and Taylor, et al (1986) used phone contact between students and the institution. Sweet (1986) Students who dropped out earlier in the semester have a limited timeframe to accrue contacts with the institution.…”

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Measuring Students’ Perception of COVID-19 Impact on Higher Education Through the National Student Survey in Romania

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The article presents the first National Student Survey (NSS-RO) results. The questionnaire was opened to all Romanian students between November 2020 and January 2021 and involved 23,796 respondents from 76 higher education institutions. Initially designed to be a tool to improve the quality of higher education, given the epidemiological context created with the Covid-19 pandemic, it expanded with one section to measure students’ perception of its impact on higher education. This work intends to establish a correlation between student dropout intention during the Covid-19 pandemic and the direct support received from higher education institutions regarding material resources, such as tablets, laptops, or other similar tools. Secondly, it analyses the students’ perception of the transition into emergency remote education. We measured in this sense their opinion on how easily they accessed mainly online educational resources, the information received, and the teachers’ performance during classes. These results provide one of the first steps towards understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Romanian higher education system. The massive interference provoked a giant leap in digitalisation and significantly changed how universities apply Student-Centred Learning (SCL) practices. Also, this study contributes to the area of national student surveys.

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Student dropout in distance education: An application of Tinto's model

Cited by 102 publications

References 21 publications

Refining success and dropout in massive open online courses based on the intention–behavior gap

Refining success and dropout in massive open online courses based on the intention–behavior gap

The collective affiliation of community college, commuter and distance education students : developmental math and dropout.

Measuring Students’ Perception of COVID-19 Impact on Higher Education Through the National Student Survey in Romania

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