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005 20160921
020 $aDD.08.2016
024 7 $a10.22459/DD.08.2016$cdoi
041 0 $aEnglish
042 $adc
072 7 $aCJ$2bicssc
100 1 $aMartín, Mario Daniel$4auth
700 1 $aJansen, Louise$4auth
700 1 $aBeckmann, Elizabeth$4auth
245 10 $aThe Doubters Dilemma
260 $bANU Press$c2016
506 0 $aOpen Access$2star$fUnrestricted online access
520 $aThis book explores the extent and causes of attrition and retention in university Language & Culture (L&C) programs through a detailed analysis of an institutional case study at The Australian National University (ANU). Using extensive data collected through student surveys, coupled with data mining of university-wide enrolment data, the authors explore the enrolment and progress of students in all ANU L&C programs. Through their detailed statistical analysis of attrition and retention outcomes, the authors reveal serious inadequacies in the traditional, and common, methodology for determining the extent of student attrition and retention in tertiary L&C programs. Readers are shown why a year-to-year comparison of students who continue or discontinue language studies using traditional statistical methodology cannot provide data that is sufficiently meaningful to allow for sound policy- and decision-making. The authors instead suggest a more valid, replicable methodology that provides a new approach potentially applicable to all disciplines and all student retention measures. The authors also demonstrate that the empirical data supports a new hypothesis for the reasons for attrition, based on students’ relative belief or doubt in their capacity to complete their studies successfully. By highlighting the importance of language capital as a factor in students’ concerns about their capacity for success, and hence in their decisions to stay in, or leave, a university language program, the authors show the importance of the ‘doubters’ dilemma’. By taking a rigorous approach to hypothesis building and testing around enrolment and attrition data, the authors provide valuable insights into attrition issues, and potential retention strategies, in L&C programs, which will be relevant to institutions, policy-makers and teaching academics.
540 $aAll rights reserved$4http://oapen.org/content/about-rights
546 $aEnglish
650 7 $aLanguage teaching & learning (other than ELT)$2bicssc
653 $alanguage and culture
653 $aattrition
653 $aretention
653 $aeducation
653 $aAustralia
653 $aAustralian National University
653 $aCase study
653 $aInternational student
653 $aLinguistics
653 $aQuestionnaire
653 $aStatistical unit
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856 40 $awww.oapen.org$uhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32133$70$zOAPEN Library: description of the publication