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Mollette, Melinda; Villa, Brandi; Cate, Debbie – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2020
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, dropping out is a persistent problem among 15- to 24-year-olds. Researchers have noted school districts that have been able to improve graduation rates have often done so through the "development of innovative models and pathways that help young people get back on track to…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Potential Dropouts, Middle School Students, Intervention
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Wills, Theodore W.; Wolford, Tonya E.; Goldberg, Amber – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs not only prepare students for the workplace, but they have also been associated with better academic outcomes, including graduation rates (e.g., Castellano et al., 2012). This study is a longitudinal examination of the 2011-2012 first-time 9th grade cohort in the School District of Philadelphia. Across…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Graduation Rate, School Districts, Longitudinal Studies
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Farr-Wharton, Ben; Charles, Michael B.; Keast, Robyn; Woolcott, Geoff; Chamberlain, Daniel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
This research examines the impact of lecturer-student exchange (student-LMX) on engagement, course satisfaction, achievement, and intention to leave university prematurely for 363 students in one Australian university. Survey and grade point average (GPA) data were collected from domestic undergraduate first- and second-year students and analysed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Learner Engagement
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Tarabini, Aina; Curran, Marta; Montes, Alejandro; Parcerisa, Lluís – Educational Studies, 2019
There is growing evidence that school engagement, or more specifically disengagement, is a key indicator for predicting Early School Leaving. The aim of this article is to explore the impact of secondary schools in student (dis)engagement and subsequent opportunities to succeed in school. Drawing on data from a qualitative study in five secondary…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Persistence, Foreign Countries, School Holding Power
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Janke, Stefan – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Enrollment at university can be based on personal interests (intrinsically motivated) as well as financial prospects (extrinsically motivated). I investigate whether and how these qualities of motivation for enrollment influence achievement motivation and well-being of university students at the beginning of their studies. Thereby, I relied on…
Descriptors: Enrollment Influences, Student Motivation, Achievement Need, Well Being
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Rischall, Emily; Meyers, Steven A. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2019
The risk and protective variables for Latino students' experience of depression, college adjustment, and drop-out intentions were examined. Perceived bicultural competence emerged as a protective factor, and cultural incongruity, negative perceptions of the university environment, and intragroup marginalization emerged as risk factors associated…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Hispanic American Students, Culture Conflict, Depression (Psychology)
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Wang, Feng; Chen, Li – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
How to identify at-risk students in open online courses has received increasing attention, since the dropout rate is unexpectedly high. Most prior studies have focused on using machine learning techniques to predict student dropout based on features extracted from students' learning activity logs. However, little work has viewed the dropout…
Descriptors: Identification, At Risk Students, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction
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Bills, Andrew; Howard, Nigel – Australian Journal of Education, 2017
In this article, we interrogate the policy assumptions underlying a significant South Australian public education re-engagement initiative called Flexible Learning Options, formulated within South Australia's social inclusion policy agenda, beginning in 2006. To this end, we applied Baachi's 'What's the Problem Represented to be?' policy analysis…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis
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Schwab, Susanne – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
Early school leaving is a serious problem for individual students, especially for students with special educational needs (SEN). This study tests predictors of early school leaving, using data collected among 1,047 students from 60 inclusive and regular classes in primary and secondary schools in Austria with 4th- and 7th-grade students aged 9-11…
Descriptors: Potential Dropouts, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Inclusion
Cerutti, Paula; Crivellaro, Elena; Reyes, Germán; Sousa, Liliana D. – World Bank, 2018
How do labor income shocks affect household investment in upper secondary and tertiary schooling? Using longitudinal data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on the enrollment status of youth ages 15 to 25. The findings suggest that negative income shocks significantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Income, Dropouts, Economic Factors
Salvesen, Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Low-income students enrolled in a four-year, public institution are three times more likely to drop out after their first year of study than their higher-income peers (Engle & Tinto, 2008, p. 11). The exorbitant price of college tuition plays a significant role in how low-income students are underserved by the current postsecondary system.…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Financial Problems, Low Income Students, Public Colleges
Christian, Cinda; Williams, Holly – Online Submission, 2016
State Compensatory Education (SCE) is a supplemental program designed to eliminate disparities in (a) student performance on assessment instruments administered under chapter 39 of the Texas EducationCode (1995, amended 2013), and (b) the rates of high school completion between students who are at risk of dropping out of school, as defined by…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Supplementary Education, Equal Education, High School Students
Neves, Jonathan; Stephenson, Rose – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2023
Several of the key measures in this year's Student Academic Experience Survey have moved in a positive direction, but these movements have tended to be relatively small. Value-for-money perceptions have improved, but not statistically significantly, while there has been no change in the proportion who would choose the same course and institution…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, National Surveys, Student Experience, Foreign Countries
Clemens, Elysia V.; Sheesley, Alison P. – Online Submission, 2018
This report summarizes the results to date of the ongoing Colorado Study of Students in Foster Care. The Colorado Study is a longitudinal study of educational outcomes of students in foster care and factors that affect these outcomes, which is intended to inform systems-level reform. The research is conducted in partnership with the Colorado…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foster Care, Outcomes of Education, Action Research
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Nouwen, Ward; Clycq, Noel – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
Tackling early leaving from education and training (ELET) is one of the main education policy targets of the European Union and many of its member states. This paper offers new insights on this issue by studying how so-called at-risk students develop their educational trajectory by embedding their attitudes towards and engagement in schooling…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Learner Engagement, Urban Schools, At Risk Students
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