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Zoltán Hermann; Dániel Horn – Education Economics, 2023
The paper studies a unique education reform that decreased the length of secondary-level vocational education from 4 to 3 years, reducing the time spent on general subjects while keeping the time spent on vocational training. We use a difference-in-difference strategy by comparing reformed schools with early adopters before and after the reform.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Secondary School Students, Job Skills
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Robin Busse; David Glauser; Katja Scharenberg – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Research has consistently revealed that adolescents with a migration background are more likely to drop out from vocational education and training (VET) at the upper-secondary level than their native peers. While recent research has provided rich empirical evidence of mechanisms leading to dropouts from VET, little is known about such mechanisms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Migrants, Migrant Education
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Wenting Song; Jeannine E. Turner – Foreign Language Annals, 2025
This study explored Chinese heritage language learners' prior Mandarin experiences and their current Mandarin-learning experiences to reveal factors that influence their motivation and intention to continue or discontinue their Mandarin coursework. Using a Grounded Theory approach, we conducted demographic surveys and semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Learning Motivation, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Rotem, Nir; Yair, Gad; Shustak, Elad – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Affirmative action policies are oftentimes pitted against the need of universities to maintain meritocratic standards in enrollment. The current study tackles this institutional dilemma against the standard of student attrition. It does so by analyzing records of 41,483 undergraduate students who attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Affirmative Action, Dropouts
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Bayón-Calvo, Siro; Lucas-García, Jezabel; Gómez-García, Rogelio – European Journal of Education, 2021
Early school leaving is a major social problem and a socio-political priority in knowledge-based societies, especially in southern European countries that have a tendency for comparatively high dropout rates. The literature has focused strongly on the exogenous factors that cause students to leave school early. Meanwhile, endogenous factors, such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Academic Achievement
Hillman, Nick – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2021
Non-continuation in higher education is rising up the political agenda. In the vernacular, it is often described negatively as 'dropping out'. But despite any terminological confusion, all such measures describe a gap between learners' original stated intentions and their situation when they leave their course. This policy note looks at the scale…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, School Holding Power, Universities
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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
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Déri, Catherine E.; Tremblay-Wragg, Émilie; Mathieu-C., Sara – International Journal of Higher Education, 2022
Over the past twenty years, graduate studies have seen significant growth, with student numbers more than doubling worldwide. Unfortunately, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development continues to report dropout rates averaging 50% for PhD and 40% for master's programs, in all disciplines combined. Among the reasons quoted for…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Group Activities, Communities of Practice
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Ressa, Theodoto; Andrews, Allyson – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2022
Dropout happens when a student withdraws themselves from school at any level of education without a certificate to account for their education. It is an educational problem in America because of its negative consequences on society. Three-quarters of the fastest-growing occupations require more than a high school diploma, and yet, just over half…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Dropout Characteristics, Influences
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Lowder, Christopher; O'Brien, Chris; Hancock, Dawson; Hachen, Jeremy; Wang, Chuang – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2022
The transition into high school is a critical time to act for students with a history of academic difficulty. In this study, researchers examined the impact of a learning strategies intervention program called High School Success on performance of students demonstrating deficits in literacy and academic skills. Data were collected on performance…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Intervention
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Devkota, Satis; Eklund, Jesse; Wagle, Udaya – Educational Review, 2022
Reducing school dropout rates has been a challenging policy problem in an effort to improve educational participation and attainment in developing countries. This paper examines the differences in school dropout rates among the 5-20-year olds across three major caste/ethnic groups in Nepal using nationally representative survey data. Findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Young Adults
Mirela Moldoveanu – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study describes an action research project aimed at improving the writing skills of disadvantaged background students and first-generation immigrants at the elementary-school level. This research was based on the hypothesis that poor writing skills may have negative effects on the academic outcomes for disadvantaged background students…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Decolonization, Research, Writing Skills
Ham, Andres; Vazquez, Emmanuel; Yanez-Pagans, Monica – World Bank, 2023
This paper studies the effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala. The government adopted a warning index (ranging from 0 to 10) to classify municipalities by infection rates in 2020, which was then used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a "stoplight" system for in-person…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Dropouts
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Graziosi, Grazia; Sneyers, Eline; Agasisti, Tommaso; De Witte, Kristof – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2021
This paper assesses the effect of need-based grants on the performance of university students in Italy. We performed a series of between-universities and within-universities propensity score matching analyses to evaluate the effect of grants on several student performance indicators, such as dropout rate, first year credits and efficiency of…
Descriptors: Grants, Academic Achievement, Universities, Correlation
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Rõõm, Marili; Lepp, Marina; Luik, Piret – Education Sciences, 2021
One of the problems regarding MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) is the high dropout rate. Although dropout periods have been studied, there is still a lack of understanding of how dropout differs for MOOCs with different levels of difficulty. A quantitative study was conducted to determine the periods with the highest dropouts in computer…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Dropout Rate, Programming
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