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Morgan A. Parker Money – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study centered student perspectives from one high school in Southwest Washington on push out and push in factors related to high school leaving. While there has been significant research conducted on risk factors associated with early school leaving, there has been very little published research that centers student voice and their…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Prevention, Potential Dropouts
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Carmen Pannone; Marta Pellegrini; Daniela Fadda; Amanda J. Neitzel; L. Francesca Scalas; Giuliano Vivanet; Ylenia Falzone – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Education plays a pivotal role in empowering individuals with the knowledge and skills needed for careers, economic progress, and societal engagement. Dropping out of school before achieving a qualification undermines these opportunities and has an impact on individuals and society (Audit Commission, 2010; OECD, 2023). International…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
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Castro-Lopez, Adrián; Cervero, Antonio; Galve-González, Celia; Puente, Javier; Bernardo, Ana B. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
University dropout is a phenomenon of growing interest due to the high financial costs that it involves for both families and states. Various variables have been studied in order to understand why this problem occurs. Satisfaction with the degree choice, study self-regulation and social adaptation within the university are some of the variables…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Student Satisfaction, Self Management
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Sanz Ponce, Roberto; López-Luján, Elena; Giménez-Beut, Juan Antonio – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
COVID-19 has changed the socio-economic and educational landscape, increasing poverty rates and generating psychosocial problems. It has also conditioned the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Thus, this article pursues three-fold objectives: to describe the situation generated worldwide by the increase in poverty due to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Poverty, Sustainable Development
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Karina Mostert; Clarisse van Rensburg; Reitumetse Machaba – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study examined the psychometric properties of intention to drop out and study satisfaction measures for first-year South African students. The factorial validity, item bias, measurement invariance and reliability were tested. Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional design was used. For the study on intention to drop out, 1,820…
Descriptors: Intention, Potential Dropouts, Student Satisfaction, Test Items
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Corcelles-Seuba, Mariona; Suñe-Soler, Núria; Sala-Bubaré, Anna; Castelló, Montserrat – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2023
Social support is important for the successful completion of doctoral studies. The aim of this study was to explore how individual differences in supervisory and research community support are related to doctoral experiences (abandonment intentions, perceived engagement, interest, satisfaction, burnout and stress) and doctoral conditions (phase…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes, Supervision, Individual Differences
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Gueta, Batel; Berkovich, Izhak – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2022
This study aimed to extend the limited knowledge on the motivational and identity aspects of youth at risk in second chance programmes. The study examined the relationships between autonomy-supportive climate, adolescents' sense of authenticity, and their dropout risk, as well as the mediating role that authenticity plays in the relationships,…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Personal Autonomy, Correlation, Educational Environment
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Bardach, Lisa; Lüftenegger, Marko; Oczlon, Sophie; Spiel, Christiane; Schober, Barbara – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2020
This study investigates the effects of contextual and motivational factors as well as, crucially, their interaction in predicting university students' dropout intentions. We focus on context-related problems in students' degree program as contextual factors and students' personal best goals (PB goals) as motivational factors. The sample of this…
Descriptors: Potential Dropouts, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Graduate Students
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Miulescu, Miruna Luana; Ruth, Klaus – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
This paper explores the importance of different parameters influencing young people's Early Leaving of school or training (EL) in applying a five-category research framework, which includes: personal challenges, family circumstances, institutional risks, social relationships and structural risk factors. This paper compares the German and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Students, Potential Dropouts, Family Characteristics
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Bird, Kelli A.; Castleman, Benjamin L.; Song, Yifeng; Mabel, Zachary – Education Next, 2021
An estimated 1,400 colleges and universities nationwide have invested in predictive analytics technology to identify which students are at risk of failing courses or dropping out, with spending estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. How accurate and stable are those predictions? The authors put six predictive models to the test to gain…
Descriptors: Prediction, Models, Data Analysis, Community Colleges
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Sergi 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
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Geisler, Sebastian; Rolka, Katrin; Rach, Stefanie – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
The transition from school to university mathematics is a challenging process for many students. This phenomenon is reflected by high dropout rates from mathematics programs especially during the first year at university that may be related to the development of students' mathematical interest and self-concept. Taking a learning psychological…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Interests, Self Concept, College Mathematics
Muench, Janice L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research explores who is at risk of dropping out of high school and how collaborative Student Support Teams can contribute to students staying on track to graduate high school. The issue of student success is important because graduation is positively correlated with important life outcomes and ability to earn an adequate income in the labor…
Descriptors: High School Students, At Risk Students, Potential Dropouts, Dropout Characteristics
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Nicoletti, Maria do Carmo; de Oliveira, Osvaldo Luiz – Higher Education Studies, 2020
In the literature related to higher education, the concept of dropout has been approached from several perspectives and, over the years, its definition has been influenced by the use of diversified semantic interpretations. In a general higher education environment dropout can be broadly characterized as the act of a student engaged in a course…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Man Machine Systems, Computation, Prediction
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Monllaó Olivé, David; Huynh, Du Q.; Reynolds, Mark; Dougiamas, Martin; Wiese, Damyon – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2020
Both educational data mining and learning analytics aim to understand learners and optimise learning processes of educational settings like Moodle, a learning management system (LMS). Analytics in an LMS covers many different aspects: finding students at risk of abandoning a course or identifying students with difficulties before the assessments.…
Descriptors: Identification, At Risk Students, Potential Dropouts, Online Courses
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