Motivatin
Online Students
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CTL 1799H, Summer 2014, Professor Karsten
Persistence Models
Tinto
Kember
Rovai
The strength of the Tinto model (1975) is in how it was developed and the fact that the model incorporates gaps in persistence research, such as the descriptive nature of previous models.
Kember (1989) introduces a proposed model of drop-out that addresses some of the previous raised issues in the development of a distance education persistence model that has at its core the drop-out model developed by Tinto. According to Kember, the Tinto drop-out model for higher education lays the best foundation for new model development as it has been cited to be the most widely used and empirically tested model of attrition.
Rovai (2003) like Kember (1989) created a persistence model based on Tinto’s work. Rovai went a step further by synthesizing the Tinto model and another well known student persistence model developed by Bean & Metzner (1985) into one composite model.
