Dropout predictors in the academic fields of economics and engineering in cooperative education: an observation of the first academic year using cox regression

IF 1.6 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI:10.1186/s40461-023-00152-y

Steffen Wild, Sebastian Rahn, Thomas Meyer

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Abstract Cooperative education programs are usually based on a partnership between companies and universities. Dropouts have a particular impact here, for example the loss of junior staff in the companies. Most dropouts in cooperative education occur in the first academic year. In this multicausal dropout process, the influence of the cooperation partner is less pronounced in research. Consequently, we shed light on perspectives of organizational commitment to the company and motivational aspects in the academic fields of economics and engineering. We analyze collected data using a cross-sectional study design and estimated cox regression analysis on 2263 first-year students at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) in Germany with 149 dropouts. Our analysis presents associations between affective commitment to the company, relatedness and competence at the university, and demographic and performance control variables with dropping out. Findings are contextualized within the current state of research. Practical implications are discussed in our study.

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合作教育中经济学和工程学学术领域的退学预测因素:使用cox回归对第一学年的观察

合作教育项目通常建立在公司和大学之间的伙伴关系的基础上。在这里，辍学生的影响特别大，比如公司中初级员工的流失。大多数合作教育的辍学发生在第一学年。在这种多因果退出过程中，合作伙伴在研究中的影响不太明显。因此，我们在经济学和工程学的学术领域阐明了对公司的组织承诺和动机方面的观点。我们采用横断面研究设计对收集到的数据进行分析，并对德国巴登-符腾堡合作州立大学(DHBW)的2263名一年级学生进行估计cox回归分析，其中包括149名辍学生。我们的分析显示了对公司的情感承诺、在大学的关系和能力、人口统计学和绩效控制变量与辍学之间的关联。研究结果是在当前研究状态的背景下进行的。在我们的研究中讨论了实际意义。

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Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training Social Sciences-Education

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3.40

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7.70%

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13 weeks

期刊介绍： The main focus of this journal is to provide a platform for original empirical investigations in the field of professional, vocational and technical education, comparing the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of different vocational education systems at the school, company and systemic level. The journal fills a gap in the existing literature focusing on empirically-oriented academic research and stimulating the interest in strengthening the vocational part of the educational system, both at the basic and higher education level.