A structural model of engineering students success and persistence

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages T2A19-T2A24

  French, Brian F ^a   Immekus, Jason C ^a   Oakes, William ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Path analysis; Persistence; Retention; Student success

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION COMPUTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS;

PATH ANALYSIS; PERSISTENCE; RETENTION; SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE SCORES; STRUCTURAL MODELING; STUDENT INTEGRATIONS; STUDENT INTERACTIONS; STUDENT SUCCESS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77951470256     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2003.1263286     Document Type: Conference Paper

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