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Download full textDonnelly, Margarita – 1987
Higher standards in public schools have made it necessary for educational reformers to identify at-risk students and to develop effective programs for preventing their failure. This pamphlet begins by delineating the characteristics of at-risk students and discussing evaluation instruments that are useful for identifying such students. Successful…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Academic Standards, Disadvantaged, Dropouts
ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, Los Angeles, CA. – 1984
As the entering-college population dwindles and competition to attract this population increases among colleges, student retention has become a primary concern for community colleges. Assessing the extent of the dropout problem is particularly problematic for community colleges, as they are institutions geared to the facilitation of ease of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropouts, Institutional Research, Research Needs
Hollins, Carol S. – 1984
John Tyler Community College (JTCC) conducts a regular investigation of students who leave the institution after one or more quarters of study in an effort to determine reasons for their withdrawal, objective for enrolling, goal achievement, and current occupational status and future educational goals. A systematic random sample of all…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Community Colleges, Dropouts, Enrollment Influences
Berlowitz, Marvin J.; Durand, Henry – 1976
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the disproportionate number of poor, minority, and working class students represented among the population of "school dropouts" are, objectively, the victims of an institutional syndrome of systematic exclusion referred to as "the student pushout" phenomenon. Cincinnati's junior…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Delinquency Causes, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Research
RAY, CHARLES K.; AND OTHERS – 1962
DETERMINATIONS WERE MADE OF THE DROPOUT RATE AMONG NATIVE ALASKAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND THE VARIOUS REASONS FOR FAILURE TO FINISH SCHOOL. THE STUDY SAMPLE WAS DRAWN FROM NINE ALASKAN HIGH SCHOOLS WITH OVER ONE-HALF NATIVE STUDENT ENROLLEES. NATIVES WERE DEFINED AS PERSONS BEING ONE-FOURTH OR MORE ESKIMO, INDIAN, OR ALEUT. APPROXIMATELY 1,200…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Alaska Natives, Aspiration, Colleges
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Vocational Follow-Up System. – 1973
The vocational followup system in the Minnesota area postsecondary vocational-technical institutes gathers three types of data about the students: (1) biographical, (2) termination and change of program, and (3) followup data on graduates. As part of this three-pronged effort, the termination and change data in the report provide information…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Day Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts
Kohen, Andrew I.; And Others – 1976
Conceptualizing progress through college as a sequential process, the study examined factors that affect rates of persistence and dropping out, using longitudinal data for a national sample of young men attending college in the late 1960's. A principal conclusion was that factors important to understanding persistence vary with the stage of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropouts, Failure, Higher Education
Dixon, P. Scott – 2002
Investigates changes of the student population with academic difficulty at the College of the Canyons. More specifically, this fall 2002 study investigates trends of the student population with academic difficulty over time, demographic changes of the population over time, and the impacts of an academic intervention workshop. Outlines the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Academic Persistence, Academic Probation
Kim, Soo Yeon – 2002
This longitudinal study examined the drop-out rates of two-year college students in Korea and explored which characteristics influence student attrition. In 1996, a pilot study was undertaken in 18 schools, with a cohort of 1,865 students. This study involved questionnaires and in-depth interviews with 18 students. In 1998 and 1999, for the final…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Dropouts, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSchaufeli, Wilmar B. – Journal of Adolescence, 1997
Investigated the causation hypothesis (unemployment leads to poor mental health), and the selection hypothesis (poor mental health reduces employment) in a longitudinal study of 635 college graduates and 767 school leavers. Results confirmed the causation hypothesis for school-leavers but not college graduates. Employment and further education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis
Brawer, Florence B. – 1996
Concern about retention and attrition rates in higher education have increased over the years and efforts to identify and treat potential dropouts have grown considerably. Studies investigating the retention and attrition of community college students have found specific characteristics related to outcomes, including full- or part-time attendance,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Long, David; And Others – 1996
This report presents the fourth-year findings on the effectiveness of Ohio's Learning, Earning, and Parenting (LEAP) Program, a statewide welfare initiative that uses financial incentives and penalties to promote school attendance by pregnant and parenting teenagers on welfare. The report looks at LEAP's effects on school completion, employment,…
Descriptors: Attendance, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Early Parenthood
LeCompte, Margaret Diane; Dworkin, Anthony Gary – 1991
This book examines the thesis that teacher burnout and student dropout stem from the same source, a process of alienation causing students and teachers to "give up on school." The first chapter outlines the size of the problem and some of the specific conditions that contribute to it. The second chapter examines the context of cultural…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology
Quigley, B. Allan – 1992
The three studies reported in this document are part of an ongoing attempt to understand how the world of illiteracy and literacy programs appears to those who have either refused to attend or decided to drop out of adult basic education (ABE). Situational or institutional barriers account for some of this non-attendance; they do not, however,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Howard, William; And Others – 1983
A study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) to determine why students withdrew from courses at two off-campus centers. Surveys were administered to a sample of 54 degree credit and 46 continuing education students who withdrew from classes at Hawthorne Center (HC) in fall 1981, and to 56 degree credit and 44 continuing education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Research
