This study used data from five years of first-semester entering freshmen cohorts (1999-2003) from North Carolina State University to assess the effects of exposure to part-time faculty upon student retention. A logistic regression model containing high school gpa, total first year hours attempted, gender, SAT verbal score, SAT math score, and percent faculty exposure was found to be a significant (p<.0001) predictor of second year retention. While the percentage to which first-year students were exposed to part-time faculty instruction was significant (p<0.0253) in predicting retention, it had no real impact upon the odds ratio (0.996) of being retained.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NCSU/oai:NCSU:etd-05192005-001811 |
| Date | 08 June 2005 |
| Creators | Hinz, Derik Michael |
| Contributors | Dr. Audrey Jaeger, Dr. Louis Hunt Jr., Dr. Amy Caison, Dr. Duane Akroyd |
| Publisher | NCSU |
| Source Sets | North Carolina State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05192005-001811/ |
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