College graduation rates of student athletes and students attending college male basketball games: a case study
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ABSTRACT:
The relationship between college sport involvement as either an athlete or a "fan" and the 6-year graduation rate was studied for 3,145 1983 Ball State University freshmen. Eighty-nine of the students were identified as varsity athletes, 564 as having attended a sample of two male basketball games, and 2,492 as neither being an athlete nor having attended the sample of games. Gender, race, local residence, location of hometown, academic major, college academic preparation, attained grade point average, and Myers-Briggs Type Inventory characteristics were used as control variables in analyses of the relationship between sport involvement and graduation rate. Tinto's contention that "social integration" is an important factor in retention of college students served as the basis for predicting that the graduation rates would be higher for athletes and "fans" than for "other" students and this was confirmed. While the sampling of basketball games was limited to many athletes had advantages not provided for most "other" studnets, the results were consistent with the predicitons of Tinto''s attrition model.
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