Potential relationships between age, gender, and multiple enrollment factors and success and persistence in French as a foreign language studies
The article aims to examine the relationships between student success and persistence in French as a foreign language studies, on the one hand, and age, sex and multiple registrations, on the other hand. Multiple registrations, that is, simultaneous registrations, in the same semester, to several parallel courses have received little attention in previous research on student success. The data, which concerns 454 students enrolled in a beginner-level course at a Swedish university, comes from a management system for university enrollment and results. The analysis, performed using logistic regressions, yields two main results. First, student success and persistence in French studies are partly linked to age. Students over the age of 60 are more likely to complete their preparatory course and continue their studies than traditional students (defined in this study as students in the 19-30 age group). Second, multiple registrations reduce the propensity of students to complete their French studies.