Educational subculture and drop out in higher education

What is it about?

The paper tests longitudinally the hypothesis that educational subcultures in terms of which students interpret their role and their educational setting affect the probability of dropping out in higher education. A logistic regression model was performed to predict drop-out at the beginning of the second academic year for the 823 freshmen of a three-year bachelor degree in psychology at an Italian University. The model uses both measures of students’ educational subculture and incoming levels of

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Why is it important?

Our study is a contribution to the line of thought that is striving to underline the role of culture and students expectations on their role and their study environment in pedagogical adaptation (Zhou et al. 2008; Gu, Schweisfurth & Day, 2010) and educational success (Griffin, 2002; Ulriksen, 2009). Unlike previous studies which have examined this role mainly as regards immigrant students or international students in a foreign context, our study paid attention – through the concept of education