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标题：Assessing Situational Awareness of Universities Concerning Student Dropout: A Web-Based Content Analysis of Romanian Universities’ Agenda
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作者：Adrian Hatos ; Răzvan T. Coloja ; Alina Sava 等
期刊名称：Journal of Research in Higher Education
电子版ISSN：2559-6624
出版年度：2020
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：18-34
DOI：10.24193/JRHE.2020.2.2
语种：English
出版社：University Babes-Bolyai
摘要：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.
关键词：situational awareness;higher education agenda;web-based content analysis;student dropout