Available Research – Recommended Reading

Promoting Student Retention Through Classroom Practice

A Tale of Two Students:
Building a Culture of Engagement in the Community College

Increasing Expectations for Student Effort

From Teaching to Learning -
A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education

Student Engagement and Student Learning:
Testing the Linkages

Understanding the Supplemental Instruction (SI) Model

Classrooms as Communities:
Exploring the Educational Character of Student Persistence

Why Learning Communities?
Why Now?

Cooperative Learning Returns To College:
What Evidence Is There That It Works?

Learning Communities and the Reconstruction of
Remedial Education in Higher Education

Learning Better Together: The Impact of
Learning Communities on Student Success

Student Success and the Building of
Involving Educational Communities

Promoting Student Retention:
Lessons Learned from the United States

Preparing Students for Educated Living:
Virtues of Problem-Based Learning Across the
Higher Education Curriculum

Taking Student Retention Seriously:
Rethinking the First Year of College

The Assessment of Student Retention Programs

Assessment of Innovative Efforts:
Lessons from the Learning Community Movement

Classroom Assessment Techniques:
A Student’s Gateway to Better Learning

Using Classroom Assessment to Change
Both Teaching and Learning

Retention References (alpha order)

Retention References (chronological – reversed)

Assessment in Higher Education (references)

Books by Dr. Tinto

College Student Retention: Formula For Student Success
 - Tinto & Seidman (2005) ISBN 0275981932

Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition, 2nd Edition
 - Tinto (1993) ISBN 0226804496

Where Colleges Are and Who Attends: Effects of Accessibility on College Attendance
 - Tinto, et. al. (1972) ISBN 0070100462