Persistence in University Continuing Education Online Classes

By J. Frydenberg. 2007

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This study presents persistence and attrition data from two years of data collection. Over the eight quarters studied, the persistence rate in online courses was 79 percent. The persistence rate for similar onground courses was 84 percent. The drops for both course modalities were disaggregated by the time of the request for withdrawal: before course start, during the initial week, and during instruction. There was a significant difference between online and onground requests for withdrawals during the initial week. There was no significant difference between online and onground drop rates after the start of instruction, leading to the conclusion that differences in instruction online and onground was unlikely to be a major influencing factor in the student’s decision to drop.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Education

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Citations in the corpus

• A review of online course dropout research: implications for practice and future research (2011, background): “If students faced life challenges and unexpected life events without sufficient support from others, their likelihood of dropping out increased (Castles 2004; Frydenberg 2007; Perry et al. 2008).”