[CaTEACH-SMI] Reminder...GSOE Symposium -- 11/24/08

[Leslie Bushong]

Graduate School of Education
University of California, Riverside

Invites you to attend a symposium presented by:

Dr. Leticia Oseguera
Assistant Professor in the Department of Education with a joint appointment
in the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies at UC Irvine.
speaking on:
“The Influence of Institutional Retention Climates on
Student Persistence to Degree Completion: A Multilevel
Approach”
Using multi-institutional data from the 
Cooperative Institutional Research Program’s 
(CIRP) annual survey of entering freshmen, the 
Higher Education Research Institute’s Faculty 
Surveys, campus registrars’ offices, and IPEDS 
data, I evaluate the extent to which peer
institutional retention climates and faculty 
normative environments influence individual six 
year retention rates. I use hierarchical 
generalized linear models (HGLM) to examine the 
extent to which institutional context (as 
measured by peer retention climate and faculty
normative climate), net of students’ ability, 
expectations, and family socioeconomic status, 
influence students’ persistence behavior. I found 
that peer climates as defined by a student body’s 
aggregated report of stop out or transfer 
intentions, did independently determine
whether a student would persist or not as did a 
campus’ overall retention rate. While past 
research has overlooked peer and faculty 
normative climates, the results from this work 
call for the attention of peer institutional retention climates.
Monday, November 24, 2008
4:00– 5:30 p.m.
1215 Sproul Hall







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Leslie Bushong
Director, California Teach-Science/Mathematics Initiative (CaTEACH-SMI)
1104 Pierce Hall
University of California, Riverside
voice: (951) 827-4970
fax: (951) 827-4971
website: http://smi.ucr.edu



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