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1 online resource (228 pages) |
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Print version record. |
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Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgements; Understanding the Problem: Student attrition and retention in university Language & Culture programs€in€Australia; 1.1. Why is it important to understand student attrition and retention?; 1.2. Attrition as a concern for university Language & Culture programs in Australia ; 1.3. The impact of government, university and school policies on language teaching in€Australia; 1.4. Historical perspectives from the teaching coalface; 1.5. Research into attrition in university Language & Culture programs; 1.6. The LASP1 study; 1.7. The LASP2 study. |
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1.8. Implications of the LASP1 and LASP2 research1.9. Attrition at the course level: Risk factors; 1.10. Learning anxiety as a specific risk factor in language learning; 1.11. Asking the difficult questions: Attrition as a research problem ; 1.12. A reader's guide to this book; Accounting for the Missing Students: Calculating retention rates in Language & €Culture€programs; 2.1. The importance of validity when calculating attrition and retention rates ; 2.2. Calculating retention rates at ANU: The€complexity of language enrolments. |
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2.3. The need for new ways of calculating language retention rates 2.4. Further issues impacting the calculation of retention rates; 2.5. Do retention rates vary by discipline? ; 2.6. Late starters at advanced levels-Students who speak a language other than English (LOTE) at home ; 2.7. Summary; Splitting the Masses: Methodology and data analysis; 3.1. Phase 1 methodology; 3.2. Implications of the Phase 1 findings from a methodological perspective ; 3.3. Beyond the dichotomy: Moving towards more effective statistical analyses; 3.4. Phase 2 methodology; 3.5. Summary. |
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Some Detective Work: Comparing€Committed Students, Quitters€and€Doubters 4.1. Overview; 4.2. A detailed interpretation of the cross-tabulated variables that characterise Committed Students, Doubters and Quitters; 4.3. Summary; The Road to Language Capital: Interpreting the findings ; 5.1. Characterising the three student archetypes ; 5.2. Doubters as 'students at risk'; 5.3. The concept of 'language capital'; 5.4. The concept of language capital as a means of interpreting the classroom context ; 5.5. Summary; Where to from Here? Conclusions€and€suggestions. |
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Appendices: Online€Questionnaires Used€in the€ANU€StudyAppendix 1: Questionnaire 1. Language Retention Study: First€year students 2009; Appendix 2: Questionnaire: Continuing intermediate and advanced level students 2009; Appendix 3: Questionnaire: Discontinuing students 2009; Bibliography; Figure 1.1. Factors known to have a negative effect on student completion ; Figure 1.2. Factors associated with course attrition, as identified from the literature; Figure 2.1. Comparison in the enrolment patterns of a Social Science major and two language majors. |
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Figure 2.2. Apparent progression rates from Level 1 in 2008 to Level 3 in 2010. |
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Educational evaluation -- Australia.
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College student development programs.
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College student development programs. (OCoLC)fst00867959
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Educational evaluation. (OCoLC)fst00903437
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Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543
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EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education
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Electronic books.
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Jansen, Louise.
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Beckmann, Elizabeth.
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Print version: Martín, Mario Daniel. Doubters' Dilemma : Exploring student attrition and retention in university language and culture programs. Canberra : ANU Press, ©2016 9781760460440 |
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9781760460457 |
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1760460451 |
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9781760460440 |
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1760460443 |
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