Calculating Non-Completion Rates for Modules on Institution-Wide Language Programmes: Some Observations on the Nature of Seemingly Objective Figures

Autor/in	Reimann, Nicola
Titel	Calculating Non-Completion Rates for Modules on Institution-Wide Language Programmes: Some Observations on the Nature of Seemingly Objective Figures
Quelle	In: Journal of Further and Higher Education, 28 (2004) 2, S.139-152 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-877X
Schlagwörter	School Holding Power; Dropouts; Student Attrition; Foreign Countries; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Schülerbeurlaubung; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	This article discusses the issues and problems which typically arise in the process of compiling non-completion statistics, using the example of an empirical investigation of student non-continuation on an institution-wide language programme. The research highlights the fact that the validity of seemingly neutral dropout figures depends on the interests and overt or covert aims of the various stakeholders concerned, the definition of (non-)continuation, the definition and identification of original module participants and of non-continuing students, the number and types of records used and the timing of the calculation. One of the main purposes of the article is to make readers more critical towards claims and data on student retention and dropout, particularly in the absence of information on the way in which they were arrived at, as well as their use as performance indicators. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10