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Claus, Richard N.; Quimper, Barry E. – 1995
The School District of the City of Saginaw (Michigan) has annually reported on the rate and nature of the dropout population; this dropout report is the fourth edition of the State defined generation of dropout reports. Two hundred twenty-four, or 8% of Saginaw's 2,805 students in grades 9-12, voluntarily terminated their high school education…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate
Tallmadge, G. Kasten – 1991
Problems with conducting randomized field experiments in education are explored. Focus is on problems encountered while evaluating a group of dropout prevention projects. Project planners were asked to manipulate the subject eligibility criteria until they identified as eligible three to four times as many students as they could serve. They were…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Control Groups, Dropout Programs, Educational Experiments
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1986
The purpose of U.S. Senate Bill S. 2243 is to improve the health status of native Hawaiians through the authorization of programs designed to provide a comprehensive health promotion and disease prevention system of services for them. The Select Committee on Indian Affairs reported on the following points, including pertinent statistics: (1)…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Attrition (Research Studies), Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Doherty, Linda M.; Bacon, Steven F. – 1982
A project evaluated the effectiveness of two pilot Correctional Custody Units (CCUs), at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Coronado, California, and the Behavioral Skills Training Unit (BEST) at Norfolk, Virginia. These units were intended to retrain errant, but potentially productive, first-term enlistees through a program of discipline, motivational and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attrition (Research Studies), Correctional Rehabilitation, Counseling
Terenzini, Patrick T. – 1978
Three basic designs for studying college student attrition are described and the comparative assets and liabilities of each are discussed. It is noted that administrators faced with declining enrollments and costs for students not completing degree programs are likely to call for attrition studies, yet methodological inadequacies exist in many…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), College Students, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Granville, Arthur C.; Love, John M. – 1977
This brief report summarizes the analysis and conclusions presented in detail in Interim Report VI regarding the feasibility of conducting a longitudinal study of Project Developmental Continuity (PDC). This project is a Head Start demonstration program aimed at providing educational and developmental continuity between children's Head Start and…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Feasibility Studies
Shah, B. V.; Marnell, Dana – 1976
The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 obtained data for 23,451 students, of whom 16,683 completed the base-year questionnaire; 21,350 completed the first follow-up; and 20,872 completed the second follow-up. This report describes the methodology for minimizing bias in the data which might be caused by nonresponse to such…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Data Analysis, Followup Studies, Graduates
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Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC. Center for Educational Research and Evaluation. – 1976
A major purpose of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) was to provide a data base for studies concerned with the relationship between high school experience and experience in the years immediately following graduation. This methodological report is designed to facilitate use of the data base. The sample was…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Attrition (Research Studies), Data Analysis, Data Collection
Lueck, Lowell A.; Gilbert, Charles C., III – 1978
The relationship between attrition and choice of major was studied at Western Illinois University. A secondary purpose was to determine whether measures of accademic ability, as well as curricular choice, will provide a basis for determining if attrition is likely to occur. Entering freshmen in the summer and fall terms of 1974, 1975, and 1976…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attrition (Research Studies), College Students, Courses
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White, Marc; Michaud, Gaetane; Pachev, George; Lirenman, David; Kolenc, Anna; FitzGerald, J. Mark – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2004
Introduction: This randomized controlled trial (RCT) investigated the effectiveness of and satisfaction with small-group problem-based learning (PBL) versus a didactic lecture approach to guideline dissemination in asthma management controlling for confounders common in comparative educational interventions. Methods: Sites were selected as either…
Descriptors: Physicians, Educational Resources, Diseases, Problem Based Learning
Skinner, Mary J.; Alley, William E. – 1984
Research was conducted to determine the effect of changing occupational specialties on the performance of Air Force retrained enlistees attending basic technical schools. The academic performance and attrition rates of approximately 20,000 retrainees and 230,000 nonprior-service enlistees (nonretrainees) attending 272 schools were compared.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Armed Forces
Smith, Alan D. – 1981
Basic background information on college student attrition research studies is provided. This paper is divided into nine components that were prominent in the existing literature: (1) higher education and the concern for attrition; (2) factors involved in college student attrition; (3) demographic factors involved in college student attrition; (4)…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attrition (Research Studies), College Students, Demography
St. Pierre, Robert G.; Proper, Elizabeth C. – 1976
A general interest in attrition, or loss of units from a study, stems in part from the observation that the infrequency of attention to attrition exacerbates problems of data interpretation. As a substudy of the national evaluation of Project Follow Through, the potential biasing effects of attrition of subjects from the sites were investigated.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Attrition (Research Studies), Compensatory Education, Data Collection
Douglas Coll., New Westminster (British Columbia). – 2002
Students who achieve a GPA of 1.50 or lower over 12 credits at Douglas College are placed on academic probation. If their performance does not improve, they may be required to withdraw from the college temporarily or permanently. Academic probation is intended to provide an early warning and lead to remediation, rather than to be punitive. This…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Academic Persistence, Academic Probation, Academic Standards
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Ainley, John; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1991
Australian study examined the ways that school factors and family background influenced high school students to stay in school for the senior secondary noncompulsory years. Researchers proposed a causal model which suggested student achievement level and perceptions of the quality of school life influenced their intentions. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Attrition (Research Studies), Decision Making
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