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Oda Charlotte Larsen Saetre; Serap Keles; Thormod Idsoe – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
We investigated changes in youths' intentions to quit school after following a group-based cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) based intervention for depressed adolescents in upper secondary school: the Adolescent Coping with Depression Course (ACDC). Data were collected from 228 youths, 133 of whom received the 14-week ACDC intervention and 95 who…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Correlation, Intention, Dropouts
Hank S. Bohanon; Meng-Jia Wu; Ali Kushki; Cheyne LeVesseur – Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education, 2024
Schools have an increased focus on implementing schoolwide initiatives (e.g., multi-tiered systems of support; MTSS) to address risk factors related to dropping out. These interventions can involve multiple domains, including academic, behavioural, and social and emotional supports. Although researchers suggest that schoolwide interventions are…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Change, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Academic Achievement
Qvortrup, Ane; Lykkegaard, Eva – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2022
There is a substantial body of research concerned with student retention in higher education. However, in regard to factors related to study environment, existing research is described as incomplete. Based on Tinto's institutional departure model and a literature review of recent international articles on dropout in higher education, this article…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Educational Environment, Higher Education, College Students
Kaara Lydner – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Dropping out of school before completing secondary education for special children is a significant problem in the world and particularly in America. Although high school dropout in America has been a major problem for more than two decades, it was not among the priorities of the policies of the 90s probably because it was thought that they would…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, High School Students, Students with Disabilities, Role of Education
Messerer, Laura A. S.; Karst, Karina; Janke, Stefan – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Student dropout is a frequent phenomenon in higher education institutions that entails high costs for individuals, institutions, and society as a whole. Thus, it is crucial to identify protective factors regarding dropout in cases in which it could have been prevented. In line with Person-Environment Fit Theory, we assume that intrinsic motivation…
Descriptors: College Students, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment, Motivation
Sweet, Johanna; Swayze, Susan – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
Psychological capital (PsyCap) is uniquely positioned at the intersection between student and academic institution. College administrators should look to psychological capital, beyond just student performance, for retention efforts in the financial management of the institution. The psychological capital and retention of four cohorts of freshmen…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Resilience (Psychology), School Holding Power, College Freshmen
Sherma Fleming – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The number of students choosing to drop out of school before earning their high school diploma continues to rise at alarming numbers. These students cause educators to question what strategies can assist struggling learners with academic, behavioral, or health issues to increase their chances of completing high school. Many dropout prevention…
Descriptors: High School Students, Nontraditional Education, Nontraditional Students, Dropout Prevention
Matthew Atwell; Robert Balfanz; Vaughan Byrnes; John M. Bridgeland – Civic, 2023
For over two decades, there have been sustained efforts across the nation to increase high school graduation rates toward the goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate for the Class of 2020 and improving educational outcomes for all students. The work of many educators, policymakers, organizations, and young people across the country…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Educational Change, Educational Attainment
P. Putrik; I. J. Kant; H. Hoofs; R. Reijs; M. J. Jansen – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: Early school dropout is an economic, social, and individual problem. School dropout is a result of cumulative processes that occur over many childhood years. Despite the influence of level of education on health outcomes, primary prevention of dropout outside of the school setting is rare. In the Netherlands, the Youth Health Care…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Dropouts, Prediction
Kerstin Wagner; Agathe Merceron; Petra Sauer; Niels Pinkwart – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2024
In this paper, we present an extended evaluation of a course recommender system designed to support students who struggle in the first semesters of their studies and are at risk of dropping out. The system, which was developed in earlier work using a student-centered design, is based on the explainable k-nearest neighbor algorithm and recommends a…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Algorithms, Foreign Countries, Course Selection (Students)
Robin Clausen – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2024
Policy research established that it is possible to predict a student will drop out of school based on academic, attendance, behavior indicators. Little is known about the processes that put Early Warning Systems (EWS) in place. This case study of the Montana EWS describes the characteristics of a statewide implementation, the efficiency of the EWS…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, High School Students, Graduation, Graduation Rate
Mara Marini; Marzia Saglietti; Laura Prislei; Chiara Parisse; Stefano Livi – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
The present study addressed an area of research not yet sufficiently investigated: the environmental sensitivity trait in relation to perceived marginalization in the classroom, dropout intentions, and the quality of teacher-student relationship. Adopting a psychosocial perspective and based on a single study survey with a group of Italian…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Prevention, Disadvantaged
Bills, Andrew; Armstrong, David; Howard, Nigel – Australian Educational Researcher, 2020
In this article, we investigate a major, long-running policy intervention to combat educational exclusion in South Australia (SA): the Interagency Community Action Networks (ICAN)-Flexible Learning Options (FLO) policy and program agenda (ICAN-FLO). SA is unique for having the only bureaucratically systematised 'social inclusion' schooling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Inclusion, Educational Policy
Rose, Aaron J., Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem addressed in this study is that, in a rural Title I public school in the Northeastern United States, administrators have struggled to implement leadership strategies to support the reduction of student discipline issues in the classroom. The purpose of the study was to investigate how administrators implement leadership strategies that…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Administrator Role, Student Behavior, Discipline Problems
Williams, Helen; Roberts, Nicola – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
New first-year students are vulnerable to dropping out of university because the transition into higher education (HE) is difficult to navigate. Using thematic analysis, we analysed focus groups/interview, exit interviews and qualitative survey data with university students during their first year as criminology undergraduates to explore how they…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Identification (Psychology), School Holding Power