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Deho, Oscar Blessed; Joksimovic, Srecko; Li, Jiuyong; Zhan, Chen; Liu, Jixue; Liu, Lin – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2023
Many educational institutions are using predictive models to leverage actionable insights using student data and drive student success. A common task has been predicting students at risk of dropping out for the necessary interventions to be made. However, issues of discrimination by these predictive models based on protected attributes of students…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Models, Student Records, Prediction
Powers, Tim E.; Watt, Helen M. G. – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Although apprenticeships ease the school-to-work transition for youth, many apprentices seriously consider dropping out. While associated with noncompletions, dropout considerations are important to study in their own right, because they reflect a negative quality of apprenticeship experience and can impact apprentices' quality of learning and…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Potential Dropouts, Prediction, Vocational Interests
Bardach, Lisa; Lüftenegger, Marko; Oczlon, Sophie; Spiel, Christiane; Schober, Barbara – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2020
This study investigates the effects of contextual and motivational factors as well as, crucially, their interaction in predicting university students' dropout intentions. We focus on context-related problems in students' degree program as contextual factors and students' personal best goals (PB goals) as motivational factors. The sample of this…
Descriptors: Potential Dropouts, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Graduate Students
Larcombe, Wendy; Ryan, Tracii; Baik, Chi – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
Although high PhD attrition rates are a matter of international concern, the factors that lead doctoral researchers to leave their programmes are not well understood. The present study addresses that issue by exploring factors that prompted thoughts of discontinuing among 1017 PhD researchers (PhDRs) at a public, research-intensive Australian…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Academic Persistence, At Risk Students, Student Attrition
Pedler, Megan Louise; Willis, Royce; Nieuwoudt, Johanna Elizabeth – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
A sense of belonging is important as it incorporates feelings of being valued, included and accepted at university. Research suggests that higher education students who have a greater sense of belonging tend to have higher motivation, more academic self-confidence, higher levels of academic engagement and higher achievement. This article presents…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, First Generation College Students, Parent Background
Ajjawi, Rola; Dracup, Mary; Zacharias, Nadine; Bennett, Sue; Boud, David – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
Academic failure is an important and personal event in the lives of university students, and the ways they make sense of experiences of failure matters for their persistence and future success. Academic failure contributes to attrition, yet the extent of this contribution and precipitating factors of failure are not well understood. To illuminate…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Academic Failure, Student Attitudes, Emotional Response
Farr-Wharton, Ben; Charles, Michael B.; Keast, Robyn; Woolcott, Geoff; Chamberlain, Daniel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
This research examines the impact of lecturer-student exchange (student-LMX) on engagement, course satisfaction, achievement, and intention to leave university prematurely for 363 students in one Australian university. Survey and grade point average (GPA) data were collected from domestic undergraduate first- and second-year students and analysed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Learner Engagement
Bills, Andrew; Howard, Nigel – Australian Journal of Education, 2017
In this article, we interrogate the policy assumptions underlying a significant South Australian public education re-engagement initiative called Flexible Learning Options, formulated within South Australia's social inclusion policy agenda, beginning in 2006. To this end, we applied Baachi's 'What's the Problem Represented to be?' policy analysis…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis
Beer, Colin; Lawson, Celeste – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
Student attrition continues to be a significant and costly challenge for higher education institutions across the globe. In Australia, universities cite the importance of addressing student attrition through strategic statements and policy documents, and expend time and resources on the problem. Despite vast expenditures, they have made little…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attrition, Higher Education
Fisher, Laurel J. – International Journal of Training Research, 2014
Identities extend standard models that explain student motivations to complete courses at technical college. A differential hypothesis was that profiles of identities (individuality, belonging and place) explain the self-concepts and task values that contribute to participation, considering demographic factors (age, gender, location, paid work).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Institutes, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power
Learned, Jeanette – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
There are many factors which might cause a student to drop out of a course of study; some of these are preventable. This paper describes the piloting of a survey tool designed to identify students at risk of not completing. Attendance was found to be the strongest predictor of module completion; low or declining scores on the survey were also…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Potential Dropouts, Identification, Vocational Education

Whiteley, Sonia – Journal of College Student Retention, 2003
This survey of Australian college students provides support for an alternative explanation of attrition for a specific group of university students: students who planned to withdraw from their original program of study after facilitating entry to another undergraduate degree. (EV)
Descriptors: College Students, Dropout Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
McInerney, D. M. – 1990
While Aboriginal children appear to be particularly disadvantaged in educational performance and outcomes, very little is known about the determinants of school motivation for this group. Commonly it is believed that Aboriginal girls perform better at school and continue longer than Aboriginal boys. This study examined the similarities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools, Potential Dropouts
Watts, Owen; And Others – 1987
This study was designed to investigate the effects of the changes suggested in the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education in Western Australia (Beazley Report) and the Report of the Ministerial Working Party on School Certification and Tertiary Admissions Procedures (McGaw Report). Special attention was directed to the impact that the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developed Nations, Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Some Demographic and Scholastic Variables Influencing School Retention: A Cross-Cultural Comparison.
McInerney, D. M. – 1990
While some comfort can be taken from the figures which indicate a growing retention rate, there is considerable concern over the very large percentage of students who do not complete full schooling. In the first experiment in order to address the question of the differential effects of variables on school retention across a range of cultural…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, High School Students
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