Effects of Demographic Variables and Academic Performance on Student Retention

DOI

10.2991/amahs-16.2016.46How to use a DOI?

Keywords

academic performance, first-year persistence; student retention; logistic regression

Abstract

A model of the retention of first-year higher education students in Taiwan was created using logistic regression. The data used for creating the model consisted of the records of 955 first-year students who were enrolled in the academic year 2013 at a private institution in Taiwan. Six variables were found to be significant for determining student retention, namely: major field of study, age, residence, first-semester credit, second-semester grade and absenteeism. Seven logistic regression models were created using the six predictors obtained and the model with all the six predictors showed the best predictive power. Second-semester grade, residence and first-semester credits were all found to have a significant impact on first-year student retention.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Fumei Weng
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TI  - Effects of Demographic Variables and Academic Performance on Student Retention
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Advances in Management, Arts and Humanities Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
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