Predicting engineering student retention

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

10-25-2004

Abstract

Recent retention studies identify factors that exist beyond academic environment as the most critical for student withdrawal. This paper reviews the methodologies and findings of a cluster of studies on retention at NJIT, an urban, public university with large undergraduate and graduate engineering programs. The paper analyzed and compared the outcomes of the students who were successfully enrolled and those who dropped out from NJIT over the period of four years from 1999 to 2003 with the goal to identify early predictors of student success and failure. The study found that a certain combination of high school ranking, pre-calculus placement test results, cumulative grade point average complemented by student level of commitment, as defined by the Entering Student Survey are the best quantitative predictors for the first-year retention.

Identifier

5444220148 (Scopus)

Publication Title

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

ISSN

01901052

First Page

11201

Last Page

11210

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