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OCLC number
28016533
Author
Sheridan, Peter Michael.
Title
Effects of demographic, academic and financial variables on graduate-student persistence, withdrawal and degree progress at York University.
Degree
M.A. -- York University, 1990
Publisher
Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1991.
Description
4 microfiches.
Notes
University Microfilms order no. UMI00293994.
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
The present study investigated length of time to degree completion and attrition/retention patterns of 539 Master's and 159 Doctoral candidates at York University. Five demographic (sex, age, marital status, registration status and citizenship), five academic (undergraduate and graduate GPA, area of study, type of programme and ever having taken a leave of absence) and ten financial variables (the average amount of funding received from York scholarships, RAs, GAs, TAs, OGS, SSHRC, NSERC, MRC, a miscellaneous category, and the average amount of funding received from all sources) were utilized as independent variables in a multiple regression procedure to determine predictors of length of time to degree completion at the graduate level. Logistic regression procedure including the same demographic, academic and financial variables was utilized to determine predictors of attrition at the graduate level. Results are discussed in terms of current theoretical and empirical research on the questions of length of time to degree completion and student retention at the graduate level. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Subject
Graduate students Psychology.
Prediction of scholastic success.
Universities and colleges Graduate work.
Prédiction du succès scolaire.
Universités Études des 2e et 3e cycles.
ISBN
0315656662
9780315656666