Patterns of Integration, Commitment, and Student Characteristics and Retention among Younger and Older Students.

Grosset, Jane M.

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ERIC Number: EJ427416

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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Patterns of Integration, Commitment, and Student Characteristics and Retention among Younger and Older Students.

Grosset, Jane M.

Research in Higher Education, v32 n2 p159-78 Apr 1991

A study examined the differential impacts on college persistence of preentry attributes, initial goal and institutional commitments, academic and social integration, and subsequent goal and institutional commitments for younger (17-24 years) and older (25+ years) students. Significant age-related differences were found on some factors. (Author/MSE)

Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, College Students, Educational Attitudes, Goal Orientation, Higher Education, Individual Development, Social Integration, Socialization, Student Adjustment, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics, Study Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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