The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study
by
Barbara E. Lovitts
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2002
Graduate schools have faced attrition rates of approximately 50 percent for the past 40 years. They have tried to address the problem by focusing on student characteristics and by assuming that if they could make better, more informed admissions decisions, attrition rates would drop. Yet high attrition...