Posts Tagged ‘Completion’

Factors Associated With Student Persistence in an Online Program of Study: A Review of the Literature

Abstract This integrated literature review examined factors associated with the ability of students to persist in an online course. Lack of persistence in online education and its’ consequence of attrition, is an identified problem within the United States and internationally. Terminology has wavered between persistence and success, where each has been interchangeably used to characterize […]

Online Classes and College Completion

The latest buzzword in higher education is “completion.” It combines the idea of enrollment growth with what we used to call “retention”—that is, getting more students into college and then keeping them there long enough to graduate or (in the case of community-college students) transfer successfully to four-year institutions.Chronicle of Higher EducationFull Article