The purpose of this study was to identify those factors that caused doctoral students to discontinue their enrollment in the Florida State University and The University of West Florida Cooperative External Doctoral Degree Program. This study proposed to answer the following questions: (1) What were the personal factors that caused students to withdraw?; (2) What were the institutional factors that caused students to withdraw?; and, (3) What other factors neither directly controlled by the students nor the institutions caused students to withdraw? Additionally, this study determined various demographic characteristics of the surveyed population. The population for this study consisted of sixty-five former students who enrolled but subsequently withdrew from the Florida State University and The University of West Florida Cooperative External Doctoral Degree Program. Thirty-four or 52%, of the former students responded to this study. A questionnaire was developed from previous research studies which were described in the review of literature. From the findings of this study, the following conclusions were determined: (1) Personal attrition factors were found to be most responsible for student attrition in the Florida State University and The University of West Florida Cooperative External Degree Program; (2) Personal, or family, illness was frequently cited by the former students as the cause of their withdrawal; (3) The vast majority of dropouts held full-time jobs; (4) Most former students began the program for greater job opportunity; (5) Institutional attrition factors contributed minimally to student attrition; (6) The majority of former students were satisfied with the institutional factors; (7) The former students' families supported their enrollment; (8) The vast majority of students have not re-enrolled in other doctoral programs; and (9) Only a few / students withdrew because of attrition factors that were neither personal nor institutional in nature. The major demographic findings were that most students withdrew from the program during the instructional stages; almost half of the students who withdrew had a master's degree in educational administration, and the majority of the students who withdrew were employed in the field of education. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-02, Section: A, page: 0383. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75775 |
| Contributors | WHITE, LEON LAMAR, JR., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 162 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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