Does the time remaining to reach graduation influence degree completion? (essay)

Essay provides useful resources for supporting its central claim: that focusing on the number of credits needed to graduate, rather than reflecting on the number of credit accumulated, may be a better motivator for students to complete their degrees.

Perhaps we in higher ed should consider motivating students to graduate by focusing more on what they have left to do than what they have already done, argues Alexandra W. Logue.

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