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Direct linkJisung Yoo – SAGE Open, 2024
This study examines the determinants influencing students' decisions to drop out or stop out (i.e., withdraw temporarily) from colleges in South Korea. Using Korean Education and Employment Panel II survey data (2016-2019), the determinants of students' college discontinuance of 8,485 students were analyzed and categorized as personal, college…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Stopouts, Dropouts
Download full textUtami, Sri; Winarni, Inggit; Handayani, Sri Kurniati; Zuhairi, Fawzi Rahmadiyan – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2020
The high rate of drop out is still a problem in the distance learning system, including at the Universitas Terbuka (UT). At UT, the term dropout is better known as the status of non-active students. The study aims was to determine the median time and determinant of non-active student in distance learning in Indonesia. This study used a cohort…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Dropout Characteristics
Voaide?-Cojan, Elena-Alina; Lazar, Theofild-Andrei – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
Higher education dropout, or abandonment, represents a contemporary worldwide socioeconomic problem that may be one of the main barriers in the future efforts of the younger generations to bring the world economy forward. Why do students leave higher education prematurely? What can be done to help solve this problem? Does our Higher Education…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Dropout Rate, Undergraduate Students
Rafiq, Muhammad Yasir; Azad, Mueen Ud-Din; Rafique, Aamer; Chang, Lu Shi – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2020
Due to the of use of ICTs and ODL, Virtual University (VU) has become one of leading distance learning university in Pakistan. However, the retention rate among online learners found considerably low. The primary objective of this research was to dig out determinants of retention of MS/MPhil students at VU and modeling their retention by…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Graduate Students
Grau-Valldosera, Josep; Minguillón, Julià – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
In recent years, several studies have been carried out into the reasons why students drop out of online higher education, following the rise in the relative weight of this form of education. However, more effort has gone into analyzing the causes of this phenomenon than into trying to characterize students who drop out, that is defining what a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, College Students, Dropouts, Foreign Countries
Stillwell, Robert – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
This report presents the number of high school graduates, the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), and dropout data for grades 9 through 12 for public schools in school year 2006-07. The counts of graduates, dropouts, and enrollments by grade (which serve as the denominators for the graduation and dropout rates) are from the National Center…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Secondary Education
