What is Retention

Similar to persistence, this term typically refers to whether students finish their degrees or programs.

In employment, the rate at which the currently workforce remains employed with the organization.

The capacity of students to keep learning material in their memory.

To keep a student continuously enrolled in college.

Ability of organizations to keep employees.

First year students who continue at the school or program the following year.

Ensuring that employees want to remain with their current company as opposed to leaving.

Retaining a teacher in the education field for the next year and subsequent years.

The ability of a program or university to keep students from leaving a degree program to pursue some other activity.

The commitment of information to long-term memory so that it can be retrieved later.

Having students remain at the institution from one semester to the next or one year to the next.

The duration of time for which a teaching candidate pursues training within a teacher preparation program or for which a teacher remains teaching in a particular school, district, or at all.

Institutional measure of student persistence at a college or university until the completion of the degree.

An organization’s ability to prevent turnover and sustain their workforce.

A college or university’s ability to keep students in school until a certificate or degree program is completed.

The capacity to hold or retain a pollutant.

The act of an organization keeping employees engaged, motivated, and committed to their jobs.

The continuous enrollment of students from one fall semester to the following fall semester.

Student attrition rates have been one of the most critical issues in higher education for decades. As students fail to persist at higher education institutions, there are impacts on both the academic and social environments. Student persistence also plays a major role in institutions’ financial planning and job opportunities (Burke, 2019).

The continuous enrollment of students from one fall semester to the following fall semester.

is the measure of students that enroll, continue, and finish their academic studies in the same school

The practice in higher education, to keep students enrolled in the community college, college, or university they are attending.

Retention is viewed differently ay each school, but it is often a calculation of the number of students who return to an institution year after year (Roberts & Styron, 2010).

Often synonymous with persistence, however it differs in that it is better defined as the year-to-year participation of a student at the same institution or program (Barefoot, 2004 AU77: The in-text citation "Barefoot, 2004" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).

The persistence of something that is usually measurable for a distinct period of time.

“The various measures taken by organizations to encourage its employee so that they remain with it for a longer duration of time.” (Singe, 2019 AU102: The in-text citation "Singe, 2019" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. , p. 425). Retention “can be regarded as longer-term behavioral responses to social support and can thus be considered more distal criteria of success” (van der Laken, 2019 AU103: The in-text citation "Laken, 2019" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. , p. 6).

action of absorbing/holding information.

Retention is the process by which students in higher education acquire an institutional fit, exhibit loyalty, and remain enrolled until graduation.

The percent at which fall-starting, first-time traditional, undergraduate students return to their institution the following fall.

The continuous possession and use of something.

The rate at which students persist or move forward in an educational program. This rate includes the number of students seeking a degree for the first time, students who were enrolled from the previous year and have re-enrolled in the current year.

To keep or maintain, for a students to continue matriculating from year to year.

The continued and willful employment of individuals within an organization.

The process by which a company ensures that its employees do not quit their jobs.

Metric and term reflecting employees who persist – remain employed -- with an organization.

The process of retaining employees within the organisation and preventing them from leaving due to some or the other reasons.

The description of successful academic progress in the doctoral program. This term is often used interchangeably with persistence (see above).

The completion of a higher education degree program.