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Direct linkSergi Martín-Arbós; Elena Castarlenas; Fabia Morales-Vives; Jorge-Manuel Dueñas – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Dropout is a problematic issue in education due to its high prevalence and impact on students and society. In fact, it can limit students' future options, and it involves a substantial cost for public budgets in most countries. This is not an easy problem to solve, since student dropout is a complex decisional process involving such factors as…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Potential Dropouts, Social Influences, Demography
Download full textRowtho, Vikash – Higher Education Studies, 2017
Undergraduate student dropout is gradually becoming a global problem and the 39 Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) are no exception to this trend. The purpose of this research was to develop a method that can be used for early detection of students who are at-risk of performing poorly in their undergraduate studies. A sample of 279 students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Identification, At Risk Students
Baca, Christina C.; And Others – 1989
School Dropouts have less employment and learning potential than graduates, contribute less to the economy, and add to social service costs. To identify a set of predictive dropout characteristics for females by racial/ethnic background and a set of intervention strategies to address those factors, telephone surveys covering 52 items were…
Descriptors: Demography, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts, Employment Potential
Dorn, Sherman – 1996
One of the six national goals in the United States is to achieve a 90 percent graduation rate by the year 2000. In the last 50 years, high school graduation has become the norm. Concurrent with the new expectation of high school graduation came the dominance of the word "dropout" to describe those without diplomas. Many Americans view…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Demography, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Patton, Stanley R. – 1969
This document contains a design for creating an educational data bank of pupil personnel information. The specific information that should be collected and maintained in such an updatable data bank is described in detail. The document provides instructions on interpretation of this data for (1) predicting approximate percentages of students who…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing, Databases
PDF pending restorationKaufman, Phillip; And Others – 1992
The study described in this report examined the characteristics of eighth-grade students who were at risk of school failure. The study used data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, which is a large-scale, national longitudinal study begun in the spring of 1988 when 25,000 eighth graders attending public and private schools…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, American Indians, Black Students, Demography
