Retention and success in higher education / Mantz Yorke and Bernard Longden.
Material type: TextPublisher: Maidenhead : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2004Description: xv, 180 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0335212743
- 9780335212743
- 0335212751
- 9780335212750
- 378.1982 22
- 378.16913 21
- LC148.4.G7 V67 2004
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 378.16913 RET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A294150B |
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378.1671 OUT Outcomes assessment in higher education : views and perspectives / | 378.16720993 PUR Standards-based assessment in the university : a case study. | 378.1685 FAI Failing students in higher education / | 378.16913 RET Retention and success in higher education / | 378.17 CHA Challenging research in problem-based learning / | 378.17 ERR Creating learning scenarios : a planning guide for adult educators / | 378.17 GAW Power learning : a student's guide to success / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Setting the scene -- 2. Student retention : a macro perspective from South Africa / Ian A. Bunting -- 3. Access and retention in Australian higher education / Craig McInnes and Richard James -- 4. Access and retention in English higher education : a parliamentary perspective -- 5. Institutional performance -- 6. Theory : a multiplicity of perspectives -- 7. Reconceptualizing antecedents of social integration in student departure / John M. Braxton and Amy S. Hirschy -- 8. Why students leave their programmes -- 9. Succeeding against the demographic odds -- 10. Promoting student success.
"Retention and Student Success in Higher Education is essential reading for lecturers, support staff and senior managers in higher education institutions, and for those with a wider policy interest in these matters."--BOOK JACKET.
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