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| Undergraduate Cohort Survival and Retention Rates: Exploring Student' Academic Resiliency in a Higher Education Institution in the Philippines
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Michael Angelo A. Legarde, Marilou DV. Nambatac, Eunice T. Viray
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Abstract:
Cohort and retention rates in higher education are internationally accepted as indicators of the efficiency and effectiveness of institutional functioning. Hence, this study is an initial effort to better gauge the efficiency and effectiveness of Palawan State University-College of Teacher Education through an analysis of its retention and cohort survival rates. To answer the queries raised in this study, descriptive-comparative method was employed and enrolment records were culled for the six batches (2017 to 2022) of Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSEd) and Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEEd) graduates. The findings reveal that the average cohort rate for the BSEd batches is 62.91% whereas the cohort rate for BEEd is 54.09%. Furthermore, the retention rates for both BSEd and BEEd were lowest at the first-year level, going from the first semester into the second semester and moving into the first semester of the second year due to the strict implementation of retention policy at PSU-CTE. Therefore, in order to retain more students into their later years and reduce the number of students who need to complete more than four years of study in order to graduate, the college administration may explore ways to further improve and strengthen the care and services that the university provides its students, notably to the BEED students. Another study may be conducted using the findings of this one as a starting point to delve deeper and discover explanatory factors for the existing scenario, specifically the discrepancy in retention and cohort rates between BEED and BSED students.
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