Relationships between Risk Attitude, Academic Performance, and the Likelihood of Drop-outs
Regression analysis is used to explore the relationship between students’ risk attitudes and academic performance indicators: current academic achievement and the likelihood of dropping out. Using empirical data on students of a highly selective Russian university, we reveal a considerable positive...
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| author | Ekaterina Kochergina Ilya Prakhov |
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| description | Regression analysis is used to explore the relationship between students’ risk attitudes and academic performance indicators: current academic achievement and the likelihood of dropping out. Using empirical data on students of a highly selective Russian university, we reveal a considerable positive correlation between risk acceptance and the likelihood of being expelled. We believe that conventional student integration and drop-out models could also consider such individual student characteristic as risk attitude. Normally, it did not use to be regarded as a factor influencing the likelihood of student departure. Risk attitude as an individual student characteristic can be involved in the process of academic integration, affecting its progress. More risk-averse students remain underintegrated in the academic environment, which is fraught with dropping out. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b80c0debad7c4d6f8e1a46abfb04f2e32023-02-20T11:33:06ZengNational Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)Вопросы образования1814-95452412-43542016-12-01420622810.17323/1814-9545-2016-4-206-22815564Relationships between Risk Attitude, Academic Performance, and the Likelihood of Drop-outsEkaterina Kochergina0Ilya Prakhov1Yuri Levada Analytical Center Autonomous Nonprofit OrganizationHSE UniversityRegression analysis is used to explore the relationship between students’ risk attitudes and academic performance indicators: current academic achievement and the likelihood of dropping out. Using empirical data on students of a highly selective Russian university, we reveal a considerable positive correlation between risk acceptance and the likelihood of being expelled. We believe that conventional student integration and drop-out models could also consider such individual student characteristic as risk attitude. Normally, it did not use to be regarded as a factor influencing the likelihood of student departure. Risk attitude as an individual student characteristic can be involved in the process of academic integration, affecting its progress. More risk-averse students remain underintegrated in the academic environment, which is fraught with dropping out.https://vo.hse.ru/article/view/15564universitycurrent academic achievementexpulsionindividual psychological characteristicsrisk attitudeacademic integration |
| spellingShingle | Ekaterina Kochergina Ilya Prakhov Relationships between Risk Attitude, Academic Performance, and the Likelihood of Drop-outs Вопросы образования university current academic achievement expulsion individual psychological characteristics risk attitude academic integration |
| title | Relationships between Risk Attitude, Academic Performance, and the Likelihood of Drop-outs |
| title_full | Relationships between Risk Attitude, Academic Performance, and the Likelihood of Drop-outs |
| title_fullStr | Relationships between Risk Attitude, Academic Performance, and the Likelihood of Drop-outs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationships between Risk Attitude, Academic Performance, and the Likelihood of Drop-outs |
| title_short | Relationships between Risk Attitude, Academic Performance, and the Likelihood of Drop-outs |
| title_sort | relationships between risk attitude academic performance and the likelihood of drop outs |
| topic | university current academic achievement expulsion individual psychological characteristics risk attitude academic integration |
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