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Hossein Ghanbari – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
Assessments in education enables educators, curriculum designers, and program developers to evaluate the success of their programs. It also allows for assessing learners enrolled in the programs. Assessment frameworks emanate from a Western and positivistic stance and tend to disregard linguistic and cultural diversity from the mainstream European…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Design, Culturally Relevant Education, Student Evaluation
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Saleem Malik; K. Jothimani – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Monitoring students' academic progress is vital for ensuring timely completion of their studies and supporting at-risk students. Educational Data Mining (EDM) utilizes machine learning and feature selection to gain insights into student performance. However, many feature selection algorithms lack performance forecasting systems, limiting their…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Decision Making, At Risk Students, Learning Management Systems
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Luis, Ricardo M. Meira Ferrão; Llamas-Nistal, Martin; Iglesias, Manuel J. Fernández – Smart Learning Environments, 2022
E-learning students have a tendency to get demotivated and easily dropout from online courses. Refining the learners' involvement and reducing dropout rates in these e-learning based scenarios is the main drive of this study. This study also shares the results obtained and crafts a comparison with new and emerging commercial solutions. In a…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Identification, Electronic Learning, Dropout Characteristics
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Luciano, Ruth G.; Olipas, Cris Norman P.; Dela Cruz, Arnold P. – Online Submission, 2022
Student dropout is one of the challenges commonly encountered by learning institutions. It has been a problem and several studies have been conducted to know the reasons for dropping out to craft solutions appropriate and contextualized to different types of learning institutions. This study seeks to determine the dropout rates of the Bachelor of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, College Students, Dropout Rate
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Acevedo, Fernando – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
In the last 40 years in much of the western world dropout rates in higher education have remained almost unchanged. Although student retention seems to be the most studied and discussed aspect, nearly every empirical study on the causes of dropout in higher education and even more the impact of retention actions carried out by universities, in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Foreign Countries
Patrick, Cleo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study, using feminist trauma theory as the conceptual framework, addressed a gap in the literature about female university students' experiences with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to the academic and social supports needed for college success and degree completion. Nearly 30% of college students will drop out during their 1st…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, College Students, Females
Miguel Angel Feliciano – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem addressed by this study was the high dropout rate of Latinx students precipitated by academic problems and exacerbated by poor student-teacher relationships. The purpose of this qualitative narrative case study was to understand how student-teacher relationships affected Latinx students' decision to drop out of school. The guiding…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Dropout Rate, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Attitudes
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Dilnot, Catherine; Macmillan, Lindsey; Wyness, Gill – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Many countries have introduced flexibility in their admissions equivalents for tertiary education, allowing students to apply with vocational rather than academic qualifications at upper secondary level. However, entrants with vocational qualifications are generally less likely to succeed at university. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are…
Descriptors: College Students, Socioeconomic Status, College Admission, Admission Criteria
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Bhat, Nazir Ahmad – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2020
The Government of India is viewing with concern the fact that even after 73 years of independence, the constitutional directive contained in Article 45, which enjoys that "The state shall provide free and compulsory education for all children until they complete the age of 14 years" has not been achieved. No doubt, a large number of…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Dropout Research
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Thu D. Pham; Levon E. Blue; Angela Baeza; Peter J. Anderson; Congcong Xing; Melanie Saward – Student Success, 2025
The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students enrolled at universities continues to increase; however, completion rates have not. In this study, we sought to understand what contributes to university completion rates by Indigenous Australian students. We employed a mixed-method approach, utilising the higher education success factor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students, College Students
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Godwin Kaisara; Clayton Peel; Cornelius Niemand; Kelvin Joseph Bwalya – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2024
The COVID-19 period ushered in a paradigmatic shift towards exponential growth of ubiquitous e-learning. Despite the well-documented benefits of e-learning, which received unprecedented attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, little has been reported on factors influencing student dropout rates in courses delivered via e-learning. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Influences, Electronic Learning, Dropout Rate, Academic Persistence
Jesper Eriksen; Shaun M. Dougherty – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Vocational Education and Training (VET) programs are prevalent in a European context, but often struggle with drop-out rates that exceed those of general upper-secondary education. Using Danish administrative data, we study the effects of reform-induced reductions in shares of VET students who did not pass their lower secondary final exams on…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Peer Influence, Secondary School Students, Academic Persistence
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Geisler, Sebastian; Rach, Stefanie; Rolka, Katrin – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
The transition from school to university mathematics is a challenging process for many students, which is reflected in high dropout rates during the first year at university. Using mediation analysis, we want to shed light on the role of students' attitudes towards mathematics--especially their interest in mathematics and their mathematical…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Student Satisfaction
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Baars, Gerard J. A.; Schmidt, Henk G.; Hermus, Peter; van der Molen, Henk T.; Arnold, Ivo J. M.; Smeets, Guus – European Journal of Higher Education, 2023
In higher education, many students do not complete their studies within the term allotted. A Dutch university implemented an intervention aimed to reduce this form of academic procrastination. The intervention consisted of three measures: (1) requiring students to acquire all first-year credits within their first year in university, (2) reducing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Time Management, Time to Degree
Markham, Lauren – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2023
Oakland International High School, winner of the 2017 National Community School Award, supports its recently arrived immigrant students by integrating academic, social, mental health, and material supports into the school day and beyond. Its community school model incorporates a Wellness Center, a tiered system of support and engagement, external…
Descriptors: High Schools, Immigrants, Holistic Approach, Community Schools
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