ERIC Number: EJ1252345
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Nov
Pages: 19
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The Academic, Social, and Professional Integration Profiles of Information Technology Students
Kori, Külli; Pedaste, Margus; Must, Olev
ACM Transactions on Computing Education, v18 n4 Article 20 Nov 2018
Low retention rates in higher education Information Technology (IT) studies have led to an unmet demand for IT specialists. Therefore, universities need to apply interventions to increase retention rates and provide the labor market with more IT graduates. However, students with different characteristics may need different types of interventions. The current study applies a person-oriented approach and identifies the profiles of first-year IT students in order to design group-specific support. Tinto's integration model was used as a framework to analyze questionnaire data from 509 first-year IT students in Estonia. The students' response profiles were distinguished through latent profile analysis, and the students were divided into four profiles based on their responses to questions about academic integration, professional integration, and graduation-related self-efficacy. The difference in academic integration was smaller among the profiles than the difference in professional integration. Knowing these profiles helps universities to design interventions for each student group and apply the interventions to increase the number of IT graduates.
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Intervention, School Holding Power, College Freshmen, Social Support Groups, Identification, Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Individual Characteristics, Academic Persistence, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Profiles
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Estonia
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Academic Motivation Scale
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