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University student retention, sometimes referred to as persistence, is a process to improve student graduation rates and decrease a loss of tuition revenue via university programs. [ 1 ] In United States
Grade retention or grade repetition is the process of a student repeating a grade after failing the previous year. In the United States of America, grade retention can be used in kindergarten through to third grade; however, students in high school are usually only retained in the specific failed subject. For example, a student can be promoted ...
IPEDS collects data on postsecondary education in the United States in the following areas: institutional characteristics, institutional prices, admissions, enrollment, student financial aid, degrees and certificates conferred, student persistence and success (retention rates, graduation rates, and outcome measures), institutional human resources, fiscal resources, and academic libraries.
Student engagement occurs when "students make a psychological investment in learning. They try hard to learn what school offers. They take pride not simply in earning the formal indicators of success (grades and qualifications), but in understanding the material and incorporating or internalizing it in their lives."
The role of student involvement and perceptions of integration in a causal model of student persistence. Research in higher Education, 40(6), 641–664. Berger, J. B. (2000). Optimizing capital, social reproduction, and undergraduate persistence: A sociological perspective. Reworking the student departure puzzle, 95–124.
Acknowledged as a separate functional unit at some institutions, residence education focuses on the development and implementation of intentional learning experiences for students to engage in. [100] Residence education units focus on developing learning experiences that support the student life cycle and student retention/persistence to ...
The Common Data Set (CDS) is an annual product of the Common Data Set Initiative, "a collaborative effort among data providers in the higher education community and publishers as represented by the College Board, Peterson's, and U.S. News & World Report."
An at-risk student is a term used in the United States to describe a student who requires temporary or ongoing intervention in order to succeed academically. [1] At risk students, sometimes referred to as at-risk youth or at-promise youth, [2] are also adolescents who are less likely to transition successfully into adulthood and achieve economic self-sufficiency. [3]