Demographic and Instructor-Student Interaction Factors Associated with Community College Students' Intent to Persist

The classroom is the main point of contact for community college students due to their part-time status, employment, family responsibilities, and limited campus involvement. To examine the relationship between community college students' demographics and instructor interactions as they relate to intention to persist in college, researchers utilized logistic regression analysis to analyze data from the Survey of Entering Student Engagement. Results indicated all eight predictor variables (instructor-student interaction, student-instructor interaction, age, sex, generation status, children, employment, and enrollment status) made statistically significant contributions to distinguishing between students who were most likely to intend to persist and those who were not.