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Jisung Yoo – SAGE Open, 2024
This study examines the determinants influencing students' decisions to drop out or stop out (i.e., withdraw temporarily) from colleges in South Korea. Using Korean Education and Employment Panel II survey data (2016-2019), the determinants of students' college discontinuance of 8,485 students were analyzed and categorized as personal, college…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Stopouts, Dropouts
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Xu, Yinuo; Pardos, Zachary A. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2023
In studies that generate course recommendations based on similarity, the typical enrollment data used for model training consists only of one record per student-course pair. In this study, we explore and quantify the additional signal present in course transaction data, which includes a more granular account of student administrative interactions…
Descriptors: Semantics, Enrollment Trends, Learning Analytics, STEM Education
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Utami, Sri; Winarni, Inggit; Handayani, Sri Kurniati; Zuhairi, Fawzi Rahmadiyan – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2020
The high rate of drop out is still a problem in the distance learning system, including at the Universitas Terbuka (UT). At UT, the term dropout is better known as the status of non-active students. The study aims was to determine the median time and determinant of non-active student in distance learning in Indonesia. This study used a cohort…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Dropout Characteristics
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Voaide?-Cojan, Elena-Alina; Lazar, Theofild-Andrei – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
Higher education dropout, or abandonment, represents a contemporary worldwide socioeconomic problem that may be one of the main barriers in the future efforts of the younger generations to bring the world economy forward. Why do students leave higher education prematurely? What can be done to help solve this problem? Does our Higher Education…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Dropout Rate, Undergraduate Students
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Rafiq, Muhammad Yasir; Azad, Mueen Ud-Din; Rafique, Aamer; Chang, Lu Shi – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2020
Due to the of use of ICTs and ODL, Virtual University (VU) has become one of leading distance learning university in Pakistan. However, the retention rate among online learners found considerably low. The primary objective of this research was to dig out determinants of retention of MS/MPhil students at VU and modeling their retention by…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Graduate Students
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Grau-Valldosera, Josep; Minguillón, Julià – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
In recent years, several studies have been carried out into the reasons why students drop out of online higher education, following the rise in the relative weight of this form of education. However, more effort has gone into analyzing the causes of this phenomenon than into trying to characterize students who drop out, that is defining what a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, College Students, Dropouts, Foreign Countries
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1962
This document is a bound copy of reports of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, including the Office of Education, for 1960-1962. The Office of Education presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors and jurisdictions, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among additional topics covered are the National…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, National Security, State Departments of Education