The Causal Model of Students’ Decision to Drop-Out for Undergraduate Students: A Review
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This academic article aims to analyze the factors related to students’ decision to drop-out to develop a causal relationship framework of factors affecting students’ decision to drop-out for Undergraduate Students in Thailand. To reduce, protect or deal with problems about students’ decision to drop-out and operational planning guidelines to support the development of undergraduate students of Thai Higher Education Institutions. The study was conducted by using a literature review and document analysis from 36 research papers between 2005 and 2020.
The analysis has found that academic integration, social integration and goal and institutional commitment had a direct relationship with students’ decision to drop-out. Besides, socioeconomic status, academic integration, social integration and goal and institutional commitment had an indirect relationship with students’ decision to drop-out.
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