What is it about?
This study adapts Tinto’s (1993) theoretical framework, known as the Model of Longitudinal Departure, to investigate success and failure in Foundation Year medical school in a Middle Eastern transnational location.
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Why is it important?
The conclusions from this research study find that Tinto’s Longitudinal Model of Departure (1993) can be applied as a theoretical framework to understand factors that influence academic success and failure, which are classified as a sub-category of attrition. It is apparent that Tinto’s model although broad in reach, lacks the emphasis that can fully aid in the understanding of student academic success and failure in Foundation Year Medical School in the transnational context.
Perspectives
Understanding the student journey and the factors which can contribute to academic success and failure can help to support transnational students within the under-researched Middle Eastern region. Findings from this research in terms of the adaptation of Tinto's (1993) framework could be applied to other contexts.
Dr Caroline Holden
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
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This page is a summary of: Adapting Tinto’s framework: a model of success and failure in a Middle Eastern transnational setting, Studies in Higher Education, August 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2016.1212004.
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