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Download full textYu, Chong Ho; DiGangi, Samuel A.; Jannasch-Pennell, Angel; Lo, Wenjuo; Kaprolet, Charles – Online Submission, 2007
Student retention is an important issue for all university administrators and faculty due to the potential negative impact of student attrition. In this study, retention rates will be studied with data from sophomore students who initially enrolled in the 2002 academic year at Arizona State University, following these students through their junior…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Student Attrition, Academic Persistence, Dropout Research
Johnson, Roy – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2008
The examination of historical trend data on the number and percent of students lost from public school enrollment prior to graduation from high school is becoming increasingly important since distinct trends are emerging on a regional basis. This study examines regional trends in Texas on the number and percent of students lost from public high…
Descriptors: High Schools, Public Schools, Graduation, Academic Achievement
Direct linkNational Association of State Boards of Education, 2009
Today's society is global, multicultural, multilingual, and digitally connected. Learning no longer occurs just in the classroom, delivered by teachers. At the same time, research has repeatedly shown that no single strategy or approach will turn around low-performing schools and reengage students. As a result, districts and schools are reaching…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs
Bridgeland, John M.; Dilulio, John J., Jr.; Balfanz, Robert – Civic Enterprises, 2009
Teachers and administrators in public high schools recognize there is a dropout problem, know they are confronted with daunting challenges in classrooms and in schools, and express strong support for reforms to address high dropout rates. Yet, less than one-third of teachers believe that schools should expect all students to meet high academic…
Descriptors: High School Students, At Risk Students, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
Jacob, Brian; Lefgren, Lars – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007
Low-achieving students in many school districts are retained in a grade in order to allow them to gain the academic or social skills that teachers believe are necessary to succeed academically. This practice is highly controversial, with many researchers claiming that it leads to higher dropout rates although selection issues have complicated…
Descriptors: High Schools, Grade Repetition, Dropout Rate, Probability
Heslop, Joanne – Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, 2008
The Student Transitions Project (STP) is a collaborative effort of British Columbia's (BC's) Ministries of Education and Advanced Education and Labour Market Development and BC's public post-secondary institutions. STP research is helping school districts, post-secondary institutions and the Ministries of Education and Advanced Education and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, High School Graduates, College Students, Educational Mobility
Peer reviewedCraig, Alfred J.; Ward, Cynthia V. L. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2008
Public community colleges were established to improve access to higher education. However, access for all often results in low student retention and in the loss of effort, time, and money for students and institutions. This institutional specific retention study, which examined student factors, both demographic and academic, and institutional…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, College Students, School Holding Power
Conner, Evguenia; McKee, Jan – Principal Leadership, 2008
This article describes an action research at an alternative high school which explores drop-out prevention strategies with first-year students. Student retention is extremely challenging for alternative schools. Because their mission is to provide a second chance to students who could not succeed in a regular setting, those schools regularly must…
Descriptors: Action Research, Prevention, Academic Persistence, Statistical Data
Christle, Christine A.; Jolivette, Kristine; Nelson, C. Michael – Remedial and Special Education, 2007
Dropping out of high school culminates a long-term process of disengagement from school and has profound social and economic consequences for students, their families, and their communities. Students who drop out of high school are more likely to be unemployed, to earn less than those who graduate, to be on public assistance, and to end up in…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Multivariate Analysis, Correlation
Patterson, Belinda; McFadden, Cheryl – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine how the mode of instructional delivery, campus face-to-face or online, affected dropout relative to students' academic and demographic characteristics. A quantitative study was conducted to analyze the academic and demographic characteristics of newly admitted, matriculated degree-seeking students (N = 640)…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Dropouts, Academic Achievement, Business Administration Education
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Velez, Eduardo – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
The benefits of bilingual education for a disadvantaged indigenous population as an investment in human capital are significant. Students of bilingual schools in Guatemala have higher attendance and promotion rates, and lower repetition and dropout rates. Bilingual students receive higher scores on all subject matters, including mastery of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Human Capital, Indigenous Populations, Dropout Rate
Stedron, Jennifer M.; Shah, Tajel; Bautsch, Brenda; Martin, Patricia; Deye, Sunny; Bailey, Lamar; Handel, Stephen J.; Vasavada, Natasha; Shen, Yilan; Exstrom, Michelle; Shelton, Sara; Santiago, Helen; Bell, Julie Davis; Quin, Bradley J.; Baum, Sandy; Bell, Julie Davis; Sturtevant, Anne; Bautsch, Brenda; Williams, Ronald; Kerouac, Pamela; Badolato, Vincent – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2010
There are formidable challenges at every level of the system that confront students who aspire to enroll and succeed in college. In 2007, the College Board formed the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education to study the educational pipeline as a single continuum and identify solutions to increase the number of students who…
Descriptors: Public Policy, State Action, State Legislation, State Surveys
Clayton, Christine Del Gaudio; Schoonmaker, Frances – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
This article examines the career trajectories and biographies of three women who completed the same graduate preservice program in elementary education. While two have become successful teacher leaders, the third has moved in and out of teaching. This inquiry draws on a ten-year longitudinal study of one of these teachers, positioning that…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Preservice Teacher Education, Universities, Elementary Education
Shaienks, Danielle; Gluszynski, Tomasz; Bayard, Justin – Statistics Canada, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to capture and profile postsecondary education dropouts from three different types of postsecondary education--university, college and other types of institutions. It compares them with graduates from these three types of institutions. The analysis for this report is based on data from the Youth in Transition Survey…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship
Detroit Public Schools, MI. Office of Instructional Improvement. – 1986
This document contains tables and graphs indicating the dropout and student retention rates in the Detroit (Michigan) Public Schools from December 1984 through November 1985. Shown are (1) analysis of educational status (dropout, graduate, transfer, and attendee rates) for the city's high school population; (2) comparative educational status…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Enrollment Trends, Graduation, High Schools
