Persistence of students: is it the relation between academic and social responsibility?
Előadó: Emese Beáta Berei
Szerző bemutatkozása:
Ph.D. lecturer Emanuel University, Social Work Department
Előadás absztrakt:
As a consequence of the expansion in higher education, the number of
students have increased and the academic population has diversified but at
the same time the university drop-out has become a general problem since
the last century (Trow 2005, Kozma 2010, Barro and Jong 2013, Stanciu
2014, Berei 2018). In this presentation, I proposed a longitudinal
quantitative analysis of the persistence of students at a private
university from Oradea, România. In partnership with the Center for Higher
Education Research and Development, Hungary, named CHERD – H, from
Debrecen University, was collected dates among students in 2012 (N=136)
and in the first semester of the academic year 2018/2019 (N=112). I
examined the pattern that makes a difference between students who intend
to drop out and who are willing to finish their study. The novelty of
these analyses is that in addition to the academic and demographic
characteristics, I have also taken into account the social dimension of
the education, connecting the academic and social responsibilities of the
students.
Key-words: higher education, quantitative case-study,
persistence of students, social responsibility.
