Pennsylvania Academic Libraries and Student Retention and Graduation: A Preliminary Investigation with Confusing Results
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This study examined the relationships between specific institutional financial variables and two library-related variables on graduation and retention rates for colleges and universities through correlations and multiple regression analysis. The analyses used data for Pennsylvania colleges and universities that were extracted from the Integrated Postsecondary Educational Data System (IPEDS) and the Academic Libraries Survey (ALS). All analyses were run using IBM SPSS software. The correlations showed that both library expenses per student and library use per student were significantly correlated with both graduation and retention rates. In contrast, the multiple regression results showed that neither library budgets nor library use had significant effects on either graduation rates or retention rates. As would be expected, instructional expenses per student had the highest correlation with both graduation and retention and also yielded the strongest coefficient in the resulting regression equations.
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Crawford's multiple regression analysis did not show any significant predictive relationship between institutional library expenditures or library use with retention.
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From The Value of Academic Libraries: Library Services as a Predictor of Student Retention (2016) · cites this paper as [15]
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Soria, K. M., Fransen, J., & Nackerud, S. (2013) · portal: Libraries and the Academy · doi:10.1353/pla.2013.0010 · Cited by 238 · cited 1× · see citing works
“In a study that examined only one public research university, Soria, Fransen, and Nackerud (2013) found that those first-year students who used the library had higher grade point averages (GPAs) for their first semester and a higher retention rate from the fall to the spring semester than did…”
BackgroundLibrary Impact Data Project: Looking for the Link between Library Usage and Student Attainment
Stone, G., & Ramsden, B. (2013) · College & Research Libraries · doi:10.5860/crl12-406 · Cited by 137 · see citing works
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Murray, A., Ireland, A., & Hackathorn, J. (2016) · College & Research Libraries · doi:10.5860/crl.77.5.631 · Cited by 60 · see citing works
The Impact of Library Instruction on Undergraduate Student Success: A Four-Year Study
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- Authors
- Crawford, G. A.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Crawford, Gregory A.
- Venue
- Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice
- Published
- 2014-11-12
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 129-141
- ISSN
- 2324-7878 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1991606629
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 5.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Pennsylvania Libraries Research & Practice (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice (University of Pittsburgh) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information Literacy
- Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Science and Information
- Keywords
- academic libraries, student retention, graduation rates, library use, library expenditures, higher education
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