The purpose of this study was to examine the federal financial aid recipients in 1974-75 freshman class at the Florida State University, to determine if the factors of type of federal financial aid package received, amount of money awarded, socio-economic status (family income), ethnicity, age, sex, and academic ability were related to retention. A population of 615 federal financial aid recipients was used. Data were collected from the students' permanent records maintained by the Florida State University. Multiple regression analysis was the basic statistical technique used to analyze collected data. Basic correlations and descriptive statistics were also presented. / The major findings of the study were: (1) high school grade point average was significant in predicting persistence to graduation; (2) the undergraduate grade point average was the most important academic variable in predicting student retention; (3) recipients between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two persisted to graduation at a higher rate than older students; (4) more females persisted to graduation than males; (5) the ethnicity of a student did not exhibit any statistical significance in persistence to graduation; (6) students from higher family income brackets graduated more frequently than students from lower income families; (7) the grant package was the most important financial aid type in explaining student retention followed by the loan plus grant package, while recipients of loan package, and loan plus college work study program exhibit a higher attrition rate than recipients of other financial aid packages; (8) the findings of this research support the conclusion that grant should be a major proportion of any financial aid type if retention is a major part of the institution's policy; (9) the amount of aid awarded was statistically related to retention; (10) the rate of retention over a five academic year period was 38.54 percent. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-03, Section: A, page: 0684. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75083 |
| Contributors | ODUTOLA, ADENIJI A., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 137 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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