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Dwyer, Jessica H.; González-Espada, Wilson J.; de la Harpe, Kimberly; Meier, David C. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2020
The United States is not graduating enough science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors for the increasing number of available employment opportunities and national security needs. The purpose of this study was to quantify the magnitude of STEM attrition at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), a military service academy…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Military Schools, College Students, Withdrawal (Education)
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Evans, Shelley M. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2020
Online courses are often criticized for having lower retention rates than traditional courses, especially introductory courses. This study aimed to determine whether there was a relationship between online and traditional instructor personality traits and course completion rate for introductory course instructors at a higher education institution…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Personality Traits, Correlation, Online Courses
Federal Student Aid, US Department of Education, 2020
This guide is intended for college financial aid administrators and counselors who help students begin the aid process--filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) form, verifying information, and making corrections and other changes to the information reported on the FAFSA. The Federal Student Aid Handbook consists of the…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Student Financial Aid, Financial Aid Applicants, Eligibility
Altindag, Duha Tore; Filiz, Elif S.; Tekin, Erdal – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
The pandemic has revived the longstanding debate about the effect of online versus face-to-face instruction on student achievement. The goal of this paper is to provide new evidence on the impact of online versus face-to-face instruction on student learning outcomes, using rich, transcript-level longitudinal data from a public university. We pay…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses, Conventional Instruction
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Black, Trevor S.; Jamieson-Proctor, Romina – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
The first year experience of students studying at higher education institutions has been intensively studied over the past forty years (Nelson & Clarke, 2014). Much has been learnt, but institutions are continuing to face unacceptable levels of student withdrawal. Concerns have been raised that the constructs on which previous studies have…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Research, College Freshmen, Withdrawal (Education)
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Ohba, Asayo – Africa Education Review, 2020
While free primary education (FPE) has made significant strides towards schooling for all Kenyan children, and dropout rates have been notably reduced, a regional disparity clearly persists. This means that many children in arid and semi-arid regions and informal settlements in urban areas leave school before completion. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Dropouts, Dropout Prevention
Causey, J.; Liu, Q.; Ryu, M.; Shapiro, D.; Zheng, Y. – National Student Clearinghouse, 2020
With ongoing campus shutdowns and online-only classes amid the COVID-19 crisis, uncertainties abound for students and colleges planning for the fall. There is a critical need for real data and reliable information about how students are responding. By leveraging the student-level data that colleges submit multiple times per term to the National…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Enrollment, Enrollment Trends
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Aikens, Melissa L.; Diaz Eaton, Carrie; Highlander, Hannah Callender – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
The next generation of life science professionals will require far more quantitative skills than prior generations. Calculus is important for understanding dynamical systems in biology and, therefore, is often a required course for life science students. However, many life science students do not understand the utility value of mathematics to…
Descriptors: Calculus, Biology, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction
Jones, Angela Cherie´ Passero – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative case study focused on how school leaders' understandings of (dis)ability were implicated in decision-making and affected student (dis)enrollment in Florida's Voluntary Prekindergarten Program (VPK). More specifically it explored how leaders in private VPK programs invoked conceptions of normality, and subsequently abnormality,…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Preschool Education, Disabilities, Decision Making
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James, David C.; Davies, Brian – History of Education, 2017
Issues associated with school absenteeism have attracted considerable attention and have long been one of the focal points of government strategies for school improvement. Pupil non-attendance is not a new phenomenon and featured prominently in Her Majesty's Inspectors' reports from 1839. This paper outlines the patterns of and influences on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Attendance, Educational History
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Travis, Justin; Kaszycki, Alyssa; Geden, Michael; Bunde, James – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Historically, most investigations involving stress have assumed its undesirability, and deleterious effects have been identified across a variety of domains. Recently, however, researchers in management and health have differentiated between types of stress, and revealed a more complicated picture as a result. Specifically, stressors perceived as…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Coping, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
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Akos, Patrick; James, Scott – NACADA Journal, 2020
Course withdrawals have significant cost and curricular implications for both students and institutions. Yet within the retention literature, little is known about the context or impact of course withdrawals. This study examines course withdrawals of first year students from a sample of nine universities. Data reveal that demographic and…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Education), Courses, School Holding Power, College Freshmen
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Lindsay, Keston G. – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2020
Anatomy and physiology (AP) are subfields of biology that are gatekeeper courses for the health professions. This exploratory study used multilevel binary logistic regression to determine if age/gender and race/ethnicity were used as predictors of success, while the term offered and the identification number were specified as random effects. Two…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Physiology, Science Instruction, Age Differences
Kansas State Department of Education, 2020
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) Kansas Individual Data on Students (KIDS) Reports; (5) Public…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, High School Graduates, Cohort Analysis
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Anika Alam; A. Brooks Bowden – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: The importance of high school completion for jobs and postsecondary opportunities is well- documented. Combined with federal laws where high school graduation rate is a core performance indicator, school systems and states face pressure to actively monitor and assess high school completion. This proposal employs machine learning…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Prediction, Artificial Intelligence, At Risk Students
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