Retaining Interests: The Relationship between Student Interests and Student Retention
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ma14631398912021-08-03T06:36:39Z Retaining Interests: The Relationship between Student Interests and Student Retention Sabo, Melody Applied Mathematics Statistics Sociology School Administration Personality Mathematics Social network analysis student retention homophily Social network analysis is becoming increasingly popular in our world of ever-expanding user data sets. Surprising relationships have been found between seemingly unrelated attributes of human behavior. At Malone University all prospective students fill out admissions applications, including a section identifying future activities in which they are interested. Potential university students can be defined as belonging to network communities with other trait-sharing students. Perhaps these students do not actually become involved in the activities, but do their choices reveal something about their future retention status?This study looks at student interests data from admissions applications of the 477 incoming freshman at Malone University in 2009. The involvement interests marked are studied along with the retention rates of those students. The goal of this study is to use the analysis of social networks to determine if there is a relationship between retention rates and the interests chosen by incoming freshman. 2016-05-13 English text Malone University Undergraduate Honors Program / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ma1463139891 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ma1463139891 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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