Success and Failure in College : A New Approach to Persistence in Undergraduate Programs / Andrew I. Kohen and Others.

Conceptualizing progress through college as a sequential process, the study examined factors that affect rates of persistence and dropping out, using longitudinal data for a national sample of young men attending college in the late 1960's. A principal conclusion was that factors important to unders...

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Main Author: Kohen, Andrew I.
Corporate Author: Ohio State University. Center for Human Resource Research
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1976.
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Physical Description:46 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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