Students’ Persistence in a Distributed Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership in Higher Education: A Mixed Methods Study

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Doctoral students’ experiences leading to completion or attrition: a matter of sense, progress and distress (2017, methodology): “In a mixed-method research study, Ivankova and Stick (2007) stressed the importance of doctoral students’ “self-motivation” beyond social and program-related factors.”
A review of online course dropout research: implications for practice and future research (2011, methodology): “…factor Understanding of each student’s challenges and potentia Academic background • Provide high quality and responsiveness of academic advising (Ivankova and Stick 2007) Relevant experiences • No strategies currently mentioned in the studies reviewed Skills • Pre-assess students’ skills…”
Hearing their voices: Factors doctoral candidates attribute to their persistence (2012, background): “…an array of resilience mechanisms, and generated strategies for dissertation completion, these participants evaded becoming an attrition statistic, unlike presumably half of their peers (Ivankova & Stick, 2007; Nettles & Millet, 2006), and currently hold a terminal degree in their discipline.”