An analysis on the perceptions and lived experiences from the phenomenon of educational persistence in undergraduate students subject to special cases commission (case study: University of Kashan)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Malihe Hoseinzade Hosnaroodi 1
Zeinab Sadat Athari Esfahani 2
1 Master of Educational Management, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Law, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran
10.61838/KMAN.IRPHE.30.3.5
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to explore the perceptions and life experiences of the continuing undergraduate course students who referred to Special Cases Commission at the University of Kashan in order to identify effective factors in increasing the students’ academic years through studying, categorizing and analyzing the collected experiences. It is an applied study which was conducted via qualitative method and the findings of the study were collected through interview and phenomenology method. The statistical population of the study included all undergraduate students in academic year 2021-22 who were studying at the University of Kashan and purposive or judgmental method was applied to do the sampling process, the interview process continued up to reaching theoretical saturation. reliability of interview instruments, was investigated according to four criteria including credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability and the data analysis of the study was conducted via Strauss and Corbin method. The findings showed that the number of extracted open codes as a result of interview with the students was 1161 which were respectively categorized in three main cores of individual-familial factors with the frequency of 637 (48.24%), educational-organizational factors with the frequency of 410 (39.20%) and social-economic factors with the frequency of 114 (12.56%). Regarding the most frequent mentioned categories related to each core, it can be said that the axial code “psychological challenges” has the highest frequency in individual-familial factors with the frequency of 85 (13.34%), axial code of “weakness in curriculum” has the highest frequency in educational-organizational factors with the frequency of 68 (16.59%) and the axial code “financial effectives” has the highest frequency in social-economic factors with the frequency of 45 (39.47%). Finally, the findings of the study showed that the academic persistence is an important multi-dimensional dilemma that many different facts should be paid attention to in order to prevent it. Therefore, meta-departmental cooperation is needed to solve the problems and remove the impediments. Hence, interaction and cooperation of different departments such as university, professors, family and society is of high necessity in order to apply preventive and supportive policies.

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  • Receive Date 10 May 2023
  • Revise Date 06 March 2024
  • Accept Date 26 June 2024
  • Publish Date 22 September 2024