Title:
Predictors of Online Doctoral Student Success: A Quantitative Study
Authors:
Scott W.M. Burrus, Todd D. Fiore & Melanie E. Shaw
Published:
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Volume XXII, Number 4, Winter 2019
From the abstract:
Online doctoral education is expanding; however, there is a paucity of research on the predictors of student success in these programs. Institutional leaders struggle to provide the academic environment and interventions to help online doctoral students make continual progress and complete their doctoral research, especially in open enrollment environments. In this study, a primarily online doctoral-granting institution undertook significant financial and philosophical investments, in the form of modified processes and interventions, to support student success in completing their doctoral research. To better understand the impact of these investments, this study used student intervention and progress data to analyze which interventions were predictors of online doctoral student success as measured by accelerated progression."
To read this article:
https://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/winter224/burrusfioreshaw224.html