An examination of academic persistence of student fathers: a case study of a Texas community college

How they used Delve

A doctoral candidate at Kansas State University used Delve to organise and theme semi-structured interviews with six student fathers and ten faculty and staff members at a Texas community college, in a case study of student fathers' academic persistence.

“This iterative process was repeated several times to ensure all themes were captured. The researcher used Delve Tool, a qualitative data analysis software, to organize the data.”

Field

community colleges; student persistence; student parents

Data

Semi-structured interviews with six student fathers and ten faculty and staff members at a Texas community college, plus institutional documents

Approach

Qualitative case study; iterative thematic coding with repeated passes over the transcripts, alongside document analysis

Data types

Interviews, Documents