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Student Retention In Community College Engineering And Engineering Technology Programs, Harrison Orr
Student Retention In Community College Engineering And Engineering Technology Programs, Harrison Orr
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An ex-pos-facto non-experimental quantitative study was conducted to examine the academic, financial, and student background factors that influence first-to-second year retention of engineering and engineering technology students at U.S. community colleges. Analysis of the five research questions was done using a chi-square test and multiple logistic regressions. Data were obtained from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Beginning Postsecondary Students 2012/2014 (BPS: 12/14) study. Computations were performed using PowerStats, a web-based statistical tool provided by the NCES, as well as IBM SPSS 25.
The sample population consisted of students who entered postsecondary education for the first time in the …