| This study seeks to examine first-year persistence among a group of adult college students using seven persistence risk factors as the independent variables. The risk factors have been used in previous longitudinal studies, which measured persistence, by the National Center for Education Statistics. The assumption in this analysis is that, as a group, adults do not persist as well as younger, traditional students since adults possess more risk factors. The results found the opposite to be the case. The traditional students who possessed fewer risk factors than the adults dropped in greater numbers than the adults who possessed more risk factors during the freshman year. |
