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Nesje, Kjersti; Wiers-Jenssen, Jannecke – Tertiary Education and Management, 2023
While intrinsic motivation is often seen as the ideal form of motivation for entering higher education, students may also have external motivations related to the life after graduation. There has been limited focus on how different enrolment motivations are related to dropping out of higher education. In this study, we investigated how motivations…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Business Administration Education, College Students, Motivation
Kansas State Department of Education, 2024
The Kansas Graduate and Dropout Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) calculates and reports the Adjusted Cohort Graduation and Annual Dropout Rates. Sections include: (1) Introduction; (2) Terminology; (3) Data Sources; (4) Graduation Calculations; (5) Dropout Calculation; and (6)…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Home Schooling, Students with Disabilities
Michael Messer Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dating back to 1998, researchers established that adults learn differently than younger, recent high school graduates. Even with decades of research on the topic, approximately 39 million American adults have attended college but left school without obtaining a degree. The research questions addressed the purpose of this qualitative exploratory…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Higher Education, Distance Education, Electronic Learning
Messerer, Laura A. S.; Karst, Karina; Janke, Stefan – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Student dropout is a frequent phenomenon in higher education institutions that entails high costs for individuals, institutions, and society as a whole. Thus, it is crucial to identify protective factors regarding dropout in cases in which it could have been prevented. In line with Person-Environment Fit Theory, we assume that intrinsic motivation…
Descriptors: College Students, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment, Motivation
Tami Turner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students with high incidence disabilities are dropping out of high school at alarming rates. Compared with other demographic groups, students with disabilities have the lowest graduation rates of any group in the nation. The substandard graduation rates have remained stagnant for two decades, indicating that programmatic attempts to address the…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Students with Disabilities, High School Seniors, Incidence
Elizabeth Setren – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
School assignment policies are a key lever to increase access to high performing schools and to promote racial and socioeconomic integration. For over 50 years, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) has bussed students of color from Boston, Massachusetts to relatively wealthier and predominantly White suburbs. Using a…
Descriptors: Busing, Racial Integration, School Desegregation, Desegregation Effects
Kiprianos, Pandelis; Mpourgos, Ioannis – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
In this article, we explore the reasons why individuals who have dropped out of compulsory education in Greece return as adults to the educational system, particularly to Second Chance Schools. Second Chance Schools were planned and funded by the European Union two decades ago so that member states could offset the consequences of student dropout…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
Scowcroft, Sarah M. – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2023
"Re:Tension" is a short 20 minute film that follows Thapelo, a bright and capable university student, on a day where he is unwittingly forced to question the judgements of his tutors and peers, and delve deeper into his own actions, choices and beliefs. "Re:Tension" addresses the topic of institutional racism and the gap in…
Descriptors: Films, Racism, Higher Education, Academic Persistence
Bakker, Theo; Krabbendam, Lydia; Bhulai, Sandjai; Meeter, Martijn; Begeer, Sander – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Individuals with autism increasingly enroll in universities, but researchers know little about how their study progresses over time towards degree completion. This exploratory population study uses structural equation modeling to examine patterns in study progression and degree completion of bachelor's students with autism spectrum disorder (n =…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Graduation Rate, Undergraduate Students
Stephanie Lynn Rodriguez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study addressed the problem of the dropout rate of marginalized students placed in disciplinary alternative education programs (DAEP). The purpose of this qualitative instrumental case study was to explore West Texas DAEP educators' perceptions of the zero tolerance policy that resulted in the placement of marginalized students in DAEP and…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Teacher Attitudes, Dropout Rate, Nontraditional Education
Nick Hillman – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2024
Observers of education often assume measuring non-continuation -- or, more colloquially, "drop-out" rates -- among students must be straightforward. In fact, there are numerous different ways to measure the phenomenon of non-continuation that make it challenging to discuss. This paper addresses the following questions regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Stopouts, Dropout Rate
Carlton Lavelle Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
For decades, Black students have been disproportionately disciplined in schools at much higher rates than White students and other student groups. In several Southwest school districts this phenomenon manifests as differential application of disciplinary alternative education program (DAEP) referrals for Black students. Zero tolerance policies and…
Descriptors: Discipline, Nontraditional Education, Student Placement, African American Students
Gkofa, Panagiota – Intercultural Education, 2022
Children from Roma communities are consistently among the lowest academic achievers in many European countries and this holds true in Greece. In Greek schools, Roma students experience high dropout rates and low performance compared to their non-Roma peers. Moreover, in Greece, as elsewhere, Roma experience wide-spread discrimination. Drawing on a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Minority Groups, Dropout Rate, Social Discrimination
Datzer, Daniela; Razinskas, Stefan; Hoegl, Martin – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
High dropout rates in STEM disciplines are certainly among the most crucial challenges that higher education is facing. While prior research has mainly applied an individual-centered approach that has helped identify factors explaining student dropout, an important yet under-examined issue is how those responsible for shaping the academic…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Higher Education, College Students, Dropouts
Kurtz, Gila; Kopolovich, Orna; Segev, Elad; Sahar-Inbar, Limor; Gal, Lilach; Hammer, Ronen – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2022
Although Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are increasing in popularity, they have been subject to criticism due to the high dropout rate. This study examined the impact of an instructor's personalized email intervention on the rate of completion of a nine week course, which included seven weekly quizzes, and the rate of completion of the final…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Mail, Intervention, Academic Persistence