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Download full textPRIOR, FAITH – 1964
THIS STUDY ATTEMPTED TO FIND OUT WHAT THE FEMALE DROPOUT NEEDS TO LEARN TO IMPROVE HER EFFECTIVENESS AS WIFE AND MOTHER AND HOW WELL HOMEMAKING PROGRAMS, IN SCHOOL OR OUT, SUPPLY THIS NEED. OF THE 167 GIRLS WHO LEFT SCHOOL IN BURLINGTON, VERMONT, DURING THE JUNIOR OR SENIOR YEAR FROM JANUARY 1960 TO JUNE 1963, 20 OF THE 40 WHO MARRIED WERE…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Mertens, Donna M.; And Others – 1982
This study was conducted to explore the retentive effects of vocational education and the labor market effects of vocational education and dropping out of high school. Data were gathered from the New Youth Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Force Behavior (NLS Youth) supplemented by high school transcripts. An explanatory model…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Stedman, James B.; And Others – 1988
This study investigates the role of background characteristics and in-school and out-of-school experiences on public high school dropout rates using data on the 1980 sophomore class from the High School and Beyond Survey. Major findings include the following: (1) dropping out of high school is a complex phenomenon, influenced by an interaction of…
Descriptors: Black Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, Washington, DC. Project on Equal Education Rights. – 1988
The personal stories of young women who have either dropped out of school or are at risk of dropping out, reveal a complex set of perceptions, interpretations, and contradictions regarding the roles of race, gender, and class in their behavior and attitudes. A one-year research project was conducted in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) with 75 females,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
Schrom, Linda K. – 1980
A study was conducted in Victoria, Australia, to examine the factors that influence Year 9 students' intentions to leave secondary school. Discriminant function analysis was used to determine the effects of family background variables, school characteristics, significant others, personal assessments, and attitudes on school-leaving intentions of…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
Vickers, Margaret; Lamb, Stephen; Hinkley, John – 2003
Data on the Y95 cohort (first interviewed in 1995 when in Year 9) of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth were analyzed to identify the effects of student employment on participation and attrition in secondary school and tertiary study and on young people's activities after secondary school. Working between 1 and 5 hours during Year 9 of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Apprenticeships, Dropout Research, Dropouts
