Assessment of Student Attrition at the Faculty of Science Addis Ababa University
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2003-05
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Addis Abeba university
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The purpose of this study was to examine the models, which
might be appropriate to represent the attrition rate of
students at the Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE),
Addis Ababa University (AAU). In addition, the study
attempted to estimate the magnitude and pattern of
academic survival rates of students and compares the
survival rates of male and female students.
The attrition data from the batch of 1994/95 to 1998/99
were used in the study. The data sources were the Records
Office of FBE and the Office of the Registrar of AAU.
The findings of the study revealed that among the
four models examined, two of the Guttman and Olkin
model (1989) and the reparametrized model
(Temesgen,1991) were found to be adequate to
represent the attrition rate of students at FBE.
The findings also showed that about 67% of the
students of Batch I was able to complete five
semesters while this figure increased to 88% for
Batch V. Here it should be noted that the academic
survival rates of students increased from batch to
batch. It was also found that even though the
survival rates of female students was lower than
male students for the five batches, still there
was no observed statistical difference between the
academic survival rates of male and female
students
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Student Attrition at the Faculty