A COMPARISON OF PERSISTING AND NONPERSISTING NURSING STUDENTS AT A JUNIOR COLLEGE (ATTRITION).
Contributors: University of Oklahoma.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Education, Higher.
Description: The study was designed to identify factors associated with nonpersisting students in the Nursing Program at Seminole Junior College. Accordingly, the following research hypotheses were tested for significance at (p < .05): No statistically significant differences exist between persisters and nonpersisters with regard to (1) demographically related characteristics; (2) student perceptions of employment, financial, personal circumstance, program-related, family-related, or commuter problems; (3) student perceptions of peer-group interactions, student interactions with faculty, faculty concern for student development and teaching, academic and intellectual development, or institutional and goal commitments; and (4) ACT scores, Nelson-Denny Reading levels, grades received in required science classes, or overall grade point averages (GPA).

The population for the study was eighty-five (85) graduates of the Nursing Program at Seminole Junior College between 1980 and 1983, and fifty-five (55) students who had dropped out of the Nursing Program between the Fall Semester of 1979 and the Spring Semester of 1983.

Frequency counts, percentages, Chi-squares, and t-tests were used in data analysis which resulted in the rejection of twenty-seven (27) of the 113 null hypotheses factors.

Strategies directed toward the reduction of attrition in the Nursing Program at Seminole Junior College were recommended.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-12, Section: A, page: 3562.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 1984.

School code: 0169.