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Houston Independent School District, 2022
The Texas Education Code (§ 29.051) requires school districts to provide every language minority student with the opportunity to participate in either a bilingual or English as a second language (ESL) program. This evaluation report summarizes the performance of students who participated in the district's bilingual and ESL programs during the…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Bilingual Students, English Language Learners, Program Effectiveness
Bekova, Saule – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper examines relations between doctoral students' employment and graduation outcomes at a research-intensive university in Russia. Since most doctoral students lack financial support, they find employment and work full-time. This study addresses two questions: first, how the employment status is related to graduation outcomes (defending a…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Doctoral Students, At Risk Students, Graduation Rate
Hassan, Muhammad Awais; Habiba, Ume; Majeed, Fiaz; Shoaib, Muhammad – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
With the removal of the barriers of time and distance, E-learning platforms have attracted millions of learners, but these platforms are experiencing a significant drop-out ratio. One of the primary reasons for this problem is the lack of motivation among the learners because of the similar learning experience provided to them despite their…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Electronic Learning, Cooperative Learning, Integrated Learning Systems
Mccolskey-Leary, Collin Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Even after significant education turnaround efforts supported by federal and state agencies, achievement gaps between white students and students of color and students not living in poverty and students living in poverty persist (McFarland et al., 2018). Student academic outcomes are often driven by factors unrelated to teaching in classrooms…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Academic Achievement, School Community Programs
Rotimi Oguntayo; Verónica Portillo Reyes; Gerardo Ochoa Meza; Marisela Gutiérrez Vega – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Psychological Distress Comorbid with Suicidal Episodes (PDCSE) is one of the most common occurrences among college students. Protocols could guide the treatment of such disorders. Therefore, this study developed and provided parameters for assessing the effectiveness, acceptability, and feasibility of Cognitive Resilience Training (CRT) using a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Outcomes of Treatment, Resilience (Psychology), Mental Health
Cristina Riquelme – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I examine various factors shaping students' trajectories and opportunities later in life. In Chapter 1, I explore the role of grade retention policies. Grade retention as a remedial policy is controversial because the benefits of extra instruction time may not outweigh its costs. Previous research has primarily examined…
Descriptors: Economics, Grade Repetition, Remedial Programs, Educational Policy
Ijeoma Opara; Daneele Thorpe; David T. Lardier Jr. – Urban Education, 2024
Leveraging publicly available data about schools" absenteeism from the New Jersey Department of Education, the present study examined how neighborhood-level resource deprivation and violent crime related to chronic absenteeism in Passaic County's elementary, middle, and high schools. Results highlighted geographic disparities in Passaic…
Descriptors: Attendance, Neighborhoods, Socioeconomic Status, Violence
Martinez, David G.; Dorn, Sherman – Voices of Reform, 2020
In its regulatory attention on school-level graduation, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) continues what is historically a federal effort to define graduation and dropping out. These efforts rely on methodology which may not accurately represent the measured outcome. The purpose of this research article is to examine the historical accuracy of…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
Digvijay Singh Pathani; Madan Singh Deupa – Online Submission, 2022
This study aims at comparatively identifying the constitutional provisions for right to education, their implementation and impact on education in India and Nepal. This is an analytical descriptive study based on document analysis. By the mid of 2011, 81% constitutions of the world guaranteed or aspired to protect the right to primary education.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights, Educational Indicators, Comparative Education
Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, 2018
This fact sheet presents the graduation and dropout rates in Alaska for school years 2004-2005 to 2016-2017. The graduation rate methodology reflects a federal mandate requiring all 50 states to use a uniform graduation rate that is to be reported for all public high schools in the country. This rate, known as the "Four Year Adjusted Cohort…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Accountability, High School Students
Hundebo, Pål Oskar – Tertiary Education and Management, 2023
This article examines degree completion among students with an immigrant background who enrolled in professional bachelor's degree programmes in early childhood or teacher education, nursing, or social work. By using the high-quality Norwegian register data covering national cohorts of students enrolled in higher education between 1990 and 2014,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Immigrants, Professional Education
Yoshida, Natsuho – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2021
Purpose: This study investigated the trends of repetition and dropout rates in Myanmar's lower secondary education before and after the introduction of the "Continuous Assessment and Progression System (CAPS)" and probed the dependence of these tendencies on high-, middle- and low- socioeconomic status (SES). The obtained results were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade Repetition, Dropout Rate, Secondary School Students
Nampila, Tutaleni – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
The Namibian College of Open Learning (NAMCOL) conducted a dropout survey in order to determine why distance students studying with the College, drop out of the subjects they enrolled for. Information was collected from learners who dropped out of subjects they enrolled for, tutors and Head of Centres. Online and telephonic interviews were used…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Decision Making, Open Education
Narayanasamy, Senthil Kumar; Elçi, Atilla – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2020
Due to tremendous reception on digital learning platforms, many online users tend to register for online courses in MOOC offered by many prestigious universities all over the world and gain a lot on cutting edge technologies in niche courses. As the reception of online courses is increasing on one side, there have been huge dropouts of…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Online Courses, Prevention, Universities
Chen, Chen; Sonnert, Gerhard; Sadler, Philip M.; Sasselov, Dimitar D.; Fredericks, Colin; Malan, David J. – Distance Education, 2020
Participants' engagement in massive online open courses (MOOCs) is highly irregular and self-directed. It is well known in the field of television media that substantial parts of the audience tend to drop out at major episodic, or seasonal, closures, which makes creating cliff-hangers a crucial strategy to retain viewers (Bakker, 1993; Cazani,…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Dropouts, Learning Analytics, Dropout Rate