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Manzuoli, Cristina Hennig; Pineda-Báez, Clelia; Sánchez, Ana D. Vargas – International Education Studies, 2019
School engagement is a key factor in maintaining school attendance and in diminishing dropout rates. In this study, four dimensions that compose school engagement--cognitive, affective, behavioral, and agentic--were evaluated with a self-report questionnaire (Veiga, 2013), and comparisons between rural and urban schools were made. A total of 802…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Affective Behavior
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Garzón-Umerenkova, Angélica; Gil-Flores, Javier – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2017
Introduction: Procrastination is the act of delaying necessary tasks to the extreme of experiencing discomfort and negative consequences for the individuals. The presence of nontraditional students at universities is a phenomenon which has increased remarkably over the last decades. This type of university students finds some difficulties during…
Descriptors: Time Management, Academic Persistence, Nontraditional Students, College Students
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Huisman, Janine; Smits, Jeroen – SAGE Open, 2015
We study household and context determinants of school dropout using data for 130,000 children in 363 regions of 30 developing countries using multi-level discrete-time event-history analysis. Most (72%) of the variation in school dropout is due to household-level factors, with socioeconomic resources (parental education, father's occupation, and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Dropout Prevention