Persistence among First Year Students
Persistence among First Year Students
There is no doubt that the subject of student persistence has permeated numerous academic debates in addition to being topics of discussion in diverse academic literature. Chang, Lerer, & Talley, (2010:347) defines retention, as “the enrollment of a number of a specific group of individuals compared to the official number during its census.” Speaking of persistence in the first year students, persistence defines the number of students who manage to persist from the first year to the second year or from the first semester to the second semester. Many a time, most students fail to persist from the ...
