| Autor: |
Adrian Hatos, Răzvan T. Coloja, Alina Sava |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of Research in Higher Education, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 18-34 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2559-6624 |
| DOI: |
10.24193/JRHE.2020.2.2 |
| Popis: |
Universities have a strong internet presence where they publish large amounts of documents available for analysis. The relevance of these documents has been rarely put to scrutiny in a policy anlysis context. In our paper we use data from Romanian universities to achieve two objectives: 1) to assess the actual presence of the issue of student dropout at the level of universities' agenda in Romania as it is apparent in their web pages; 2) to evaluate the degree to which the agenda of Romanian universities reflects the actual issue of student retention as reflected in factual data. The results show a significant correlation between the presence of the topic in documents and the actual dropout rate, but there are some limitations, though: the correlation is not linear, universities seem to be inertial in their public aknowledgement of the problem, web-scrapping and web based content-analytic procedures still have numerous reliability issues. |
| Databáze: |
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