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Habtam Genie Dessie; Abebaw Ayana Alene – Education 3-13, 2025
The study's overarching goal was to look into the factors that contribute to school dropout among primary school students in Fagita Lekoma District. To this end, this study used a convergent parallel research design. The participants of the study comprised District Education Officers, school principals, teachers, PTA members, and dropout pupils.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate
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Mesut Kurulgan – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to examine research on school dropout in open and distance education in the Web of Science (WoS) database using bibliometric analysis and to reveal trends in this area. In line with this goal, a total of 1,615 studies published between 1980 and 2022 were identified in the Web of Science (WoS) indexes. Descriptive and…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Dropouts, Dropout Research
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Garyfalia Charitaki; Georgia Andreou; Anastasia Alevriadou; Spyridon-Georgios Soulis – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
While open and distance education gains growing recognition over time, it also faces increasing drop-out rates. Consequently, the development of predictive models for early identification of students at-risk for drop-out could be critical to promote ongoing engagement. This study aims to gain insights into the dropout prediction problem in a…
Descriptors: Prediction, Dropouts, Special Education, Open Universities
Cynthia M. Gale – ProQuest LLC, 2022
High school graduation has long been recognized as an important turning point to young adulthood, opening up the doors for future vocational and economic activities. In Washington State, students with disabilities still drop out at rates that are significantly higher than their peers, hampering their ability to achieve this graduation milestone.…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, High School Students, Time to Degree, Dropouts
Kansas State Department of Education, 2024
The Kansas Graduate and Dropout Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) calculates and reports the Adjusted Cohort Graduation and Annual Dropout Rates. Sections include: (1) Introduction; (2) Terminology; (3) Data Sources; (4) Graduation Calculations; (5) Dropout Calculation; and (6)…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Home Schooling, Students with Disabilities
Michael Messer Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dating back to 1998, researchers established that adults learn differently than younger, recent high school graduates. Even with decades of research on the topic, approximately 39 million American adults have attended college but left school without obtaining a degree. The research questions addressed the purpose of this qualitative exploratory…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Higher Education, Distance Education, Electronic Learning
Tami Turner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students with high incidence disabilities are dropping out of high school at alarming rates. Compared with other demographic groups, students with disabilities have the lowest graduation rates of any group in the nation. The substandard graduation rates have remained stagnant for two decades, indicating that programmatic attempts to address the…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Students with Disabilities, High School Seniors, Incidence
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Kiprianos, Pandelis; Mpourgos, Ioannis – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
In this article, we explore the reasons why individuals who have dropped out of compulsory education in Greece return as adults to the educational system, particularly to Second Chance Schools. Second Chance Schools were planned and funded by the European Union two decades ago so that member states could offset the consequences of student dropout…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
Nick Hillman – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2024
Observers of education often assume measuring non-continuation -- or, more colloquially, "drop-out" rates -- among students must be straightforward. In fact, there are numerous different ways to measure the phenomenon of non-continuation that make it challenging to discuss. This paper addresses the following questions regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Stopouts, Dropout Rate
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Datzer, Daniela; Razinskas, Stefan; Hoegl, Martin – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
High dropout rates in STEM disciplines are certainly among the most crucial challenges that higher education is facing. While prior research has mainly applied an individual-centered approach that has helped identify factors explaining student dropout, an important yet under-examined issue is how those responsible for shaping the academic…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Higher Education, College Students, Dropouts
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Edwin Buenaño; María José Beletanga; Mónica Mancheno – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
University dropout is a serious problem in higher education that is increasingly gaining importance, as it is essential to understand its causes and search for public and institutional policies that can help reduce it. This research uses conventional and extended Cox survival models to analyze the factors behind dropout rates at a co-financed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate
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Carmen Pannone; Marta Pellegrini; Daniela Fadda; Amanda J. Neitzel; L. Francesca Scalas; Giuliano Vivanet; Ylenia Falzone – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Education plays a pivotal role in empowering individuals with the knowledge and skills needed for careers, economic progress, and societal engagement. Dropping out of school before achieving a qualification undermines these opportunities and has an impact on individuals and society (Audit Commission, 2010; OECD, 2023). International…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Pinghui Wu; Lucy McMillan – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2023
Every year, 2 million first-time, full-time undergraduate students enter a degree-granting postsecondary institution in the United States, but more than one-third leave college before obtaining a college degree. This report's analysis shows that job loss has an adverse effect on college persistence for 18- to 24-year-old US working students, that…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Academic Persistence, Student Attitudes, Educational Policy
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Hossein Ghanbari – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
Assessments in education enables educators, curriculum designers, and program developers to evaluate the success of their programs. It also allows for assessing learners enrolled in the programs. Assessment frameworks emanate from a Western and positivistic stance and tend to disregard linguistic and cultural diversity from the mainstream European…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Design, Culturally Relevant Education, Student Evaluation
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Acevedo, Fernando – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
In the last 40 years in much of the western world dropout rates in higher education have remained almost unchanged. Although student retention seems to be the most studied and discussed aspect, nearly every empirical study on the causes of dropout in higher education and even more the impact of retention actions carried out by universities, in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Foreign Countries
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