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Download full textDeClou, Lindsay – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Attrition from Canadian graduate programs is a point of concern on a societal, institutional, and individual level. To improve retention in graduate school, a better understanding of what leads to withdrawal needs to be reached. This paper uses logistic regression and discrete-time survival analysis with time-varying covariates to analyze data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Regression (Statistics), Graduate Students
Parkin, Michael – 1989
Dropout classification systems must be standardized, updated, and simplified to accurately reflect conditions of student departures from school; current, nonstandardized systems allow gathered data to be biased and of poor quality. Improvements will inform administrators of the specific causes behind students' early withdrawals--whether students…
Descriptors: Action Research, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research, Foreign Countries
Vancouver Community Coll. (British Columbia). Office of Institutional Research. – 1986
A study was conducted to compare the attrition rates at Vancouver Community College (VCC) with those of other British Columbia two-year institutions; to determine the effects of factors such as program duration and employment outlook on attrition; and to identify ways of minimizing the negative effects of attrition. Outcomes factors were…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Attendance, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedDerwing, Tracey M.; DeCorby, Emilie; Ichikawa, Julie; Jamieson, Kama – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1999
A study examined academic achievement and persistence of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) high school students in one urban Alberta (Canada) school district for 1991 to 1996, including analysis of student records and interviews with former students and ESL and mainstream teachers. Results indicate 46% of ESL students did not complete studies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Dropout Rate, English (Second Language)
