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Kirksey, J. Jacob – AERA Open, 2019
Currently, the state of California has dedicated much focus to reducing absenteeism in schools through the In School + On Track initiative, which revitalizes efforts made to keep accurate and informative attendance data. Additionally, absenteeism has been integrated into California's Local Control and Accountability Plan to monitor district…
Descriptors: School Districts, Attendance, Accuracy, State Policy
David Christopher Averett – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The current mixed method study examined the impact of mentoring on a selected group of at risk students attending a north Texas high school. The study compared the group of mentored students to a group of students selected from the list of at risk students attending the same high school. The study examined the grade point average, attendance, and…
Descriptors: High School Students, At Risk Students, Potential Dropouts, Dropout Prevention
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Kettell, Lynn – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2020
Young adult carers are four times more likely than other students to drop out of higher education and are amongst the under-represented and disadvantaged groups targeted in the National Strategy for Access and Student Success in Higher Education in the UK. Non-completion of studies has implications not just for the individuals themselves, but also…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Higher Education, Barriers, Foreign Countries
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Carey, Alexis; Povey, Rachel; Taylor, Jennifer – Preventing School Failure, 2023
Early school leaving (ESL) is considered a significant societal issue globally due to the negative effect on young people's health, affect, and quality of life. Continued absenteeism is a risk factor for ESL. This study aimed to explore Irish children's health and wellbeing experiences during school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Davidson, William B.; Beck, Hall P. – College Student Journal, 2021
The purpose of this investigation was to develop an ultra-short questionnaire that reliably predicted re-enrollment. Two binary stepwise logistic regressions were performed using re-enrollment status as the criterion. The first regression, conducted with a subsample of 4619 undergraduates, reduced 32 items drawn from the College Persistence…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Construction, Identification, Predictor Variables
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Christina Steiner – Grantee Submission, 2024
This paper summarizes a three-year quasi-experimental evaluation with school-level assignment of a social-emotional learning (SEL) program for high school students who are at-risk of dropping out before college graduation. The field-initiated program aimed to increase students' social and emotional skills, develop their character, and increase…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College Bound Students, High School Students, Social Emotional Learning
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Blanchard, Charlotte; Haccoun, Robert R. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
Support provided by the research advisor is understood to be one of the keys to success in higher-level studies. However, support remains a construct operationalised in many different ways, making it difficult to prescribe those behaviours supervisors should adopt or abandon to optimise support offered to students. This self-report study examines…
Descriptors: Faculty Advisers, Social Support Groups, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students
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Antoni, Jennifer – Planning and Changing, 2021
The purpose of this review article was to examine the turbulence of the current educational context in light of COVID-19 and the associated school closures, for disengaged high school students, often over-aged, who are nearing the end of their academic journeys. In this review, I provide a concise overview of the way that the high school dropout…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, At Risk Students, High School Students, Student Experience
Staci Phelan – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Retention of students is a problem faced by institutions of higher education around the world. Higher education institutions are required to report retention data to government agencies and they depend on tuition funding more than ever before. Prior research has identified many characteristics that when present, increase the likelihood of early…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, College Students, Internship Programs, Career Pathways
Alejo, Anna; Naguib, Karimah; Yao, Haogen – UNICEF, 2023
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, resulting in disruptions to education at an unprecedented scale. In response to the urgent need to recover learning losses, countries worldwide have taken RAPID actions to: Reach every child and keep them in school; Assess learning levels regularly; Prioritize…
Descriptors: Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Policy
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Kemper, Lorenz; Vorhoff, Gerrit; Wigger, Berthold U. – European Journal of Higher Education, 2020
We perform two approaches of machine learning, logistic regressions and decision trees, to predict student dropout at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The models are computed on the basis of examination data, i.e. data available at all universities without the need of specific collection. Therefore, we propose a methodical approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Potential Dropouts, School Holding Power
Ruud, Collin M.; Saclarides, Evthokia S.; George-Jackson, Casey E.; Lubienski, Sarah T. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2018
This exploratory mixed-methods study examines factors contributing to doctoral students' consideration of departure from their graduate programs with comparisons made by sex and affiliation with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs. Logistic regression and qualitative analyses point to the importance of strong…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Potential Dropouts, STEM Education
Samlan, Hillel – ProQuest LLC, 2019
College students experiencing psychological distress are at unique risk for negative academic outcomes. The Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms-62 (CCAPS-62; Locke et al., 2011) is a multidimensional symptom inventory designed for use in college counseling centers. However, the relationships between the CCAPS-62 and functional…
Descriptors: College Students, Stress Variables, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Measures (Individuals)
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Tvedt, Maren Stabel; Bru, Edvin; Idsoe, Thormod – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Teachers are crucial agents in adolescents' school life, and teachers' roles involve both academic and socio-emotional functions. This study examined how first-year students in upper secondary school in Norway (n = 1379) perceive aspects of teacher support (emotional support, feedback quality, and autonomy granting), and the associations with…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Role, Student Motivation, High School Students
Roome, Anna Kathryn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The issue within education reform of high dropout rates has been an enduring problem for education in the United States (U.S.) since the 1960s. Dropping out of high school is associated with a broad range of social pathologies in adulthood, including poor job prospects, the propensity to engage in criminal behavior, out-of-wedlock births, low…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Student Characteristics, Public Schools, Potential Dropouts
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