Dear all
I'm working my way through a paper (woo) on improving student retention and I keep coming across phrases such as
"student retention has become an increasingly important agenda recently". I'm having a slightly twitchy reaction to this (I think it's because I'm getting old) because it's just not true.
So
I reckon that the first significant studies into retention/ students success are:
UK - Yorke et al & Ozga & Sukhnandan (1997) Undergraduate non-completion in higher education in England
Australia
- McInnis,
C. and James, R., with McNaught, C. (1995) First year on Campus, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne/Australian Government Publishing Service.
USA
- Tinto (1975) (although I think most people have only read the 1993 book (miaow))
I've
blogged it, but am I miles out? Are there really important antecedents that I'm missing?
And
- Anyone from a country not mentioned got thoughts on early work in your
own national context?
- Any thoughts on significant studies/ reports/ edited books (published in 2010 or otherwise)?
Best wishes and happy new year
Ed
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