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Gary Mundy; Karen Parry; Sarah Vaughan – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
The number of families in England choosing to withdraw their children from school has grown significantly since 2016. In this manuscript, we present findings from action research with purposefully sampled home educating young people (n = 9), parents/carers (n = 16), staff from Career Connect (n = 4), staff from schools and colleges (n = 4), staff…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Home Schooling, Action Research, Withdrawal (Education)
Cynthia A. Waldeck – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in this comparative case study was to understand the creation and implementation of the medical withdrawal policy and differences of the return from withdrawal policies in the University State System in the context of students with severe and persistent mental illness. This study focused on two specific institutions in the…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Withdrawal (Education), Mental Health, Comparative Analysis
Florida Department of Education, 2024
Florida's high school graduation rate is based on the percentage of students who graduated with a standard diploma within four years of their first full year of enrollment in ninth grade in the state. However, adjustments are made to this cohort over time to: (1) add incoming transfer students based on their grade level and year of entry; (2)…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Withdrawal (Education), Documentation
Ibrahim Bicak – Research in Higher Education, 2024
This study describes course withdrawal behaviors in the Texas public higher education institutions and examines the predictors of course withdrawal by using statewide administrative datasets. The findings showed that two-thirds of the college students in the sample withdrew from at least one course, highlighting course withdrawal as a prevalent…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Education), College Students, Community College Students, Transfer Students
Emily Faulconer; Beverly Wood; Amanda Branton; Marcus Chuaunsu – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2023
This study addresses the STEM workforce shortage by examining online STEM course withdrawals. This article categorizes withdrawal reasons using a two-tiered coding system based on a theoretical framework. Institutional data, analyzed through qualitative methods and descriptive statistics, showed withdrawal rates between 2.0-9.6%, with no…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Withdrawal (Education), STEM Education, Online Courses
Oscar Espinoza; Luis Eduardo González; Luis Sandoval; Noel McGinn; Bruno Corradi – Research Papers in Education, 2024
In Chile many university students do not persist to graduation. Some students dropped out in the first year, others later. The objective of this study, based on students admitted to but not graduating from selective universities, was to identify factors associated with their academic success and length of persistence before withdrawal. The 707…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Selective Admission, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
Lauren A. Braun – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Graduate education is designed to cultivate experts with knowledge and skills that will contribute to the field of student affairs by advancing research and enhancing practice. This edict often falls through, however, when students return to their doctoral programs after a leave of absence. I conducted a qualitative study to better understand the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Reentry Students, Student Personnel Services, Withdrawal (Education)
Melanie Fischer-Browne; Lea Ahrens; Corinna Kleinert; Brigitte Schels – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
This study examines whether premature termination of vocational education and training (VET) is more likely when trainees have to make compromises between their realistic occupational aspirations and the occupation for which they are trained in terms of the occupational dimensions of gender type, prestige, and occupational interests. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Academic Persistence, Student Characteristics, Grade 9
Egglestone, Corin; Jones, Emily; Chrispin, Lucy; Clayton, Naomi; Hall, Sophie – Learning and Work Institute, 2022
One of the most important reforms to the apprenticeship system in recent years has been the transition from apprenticeship frameworks to employer-designed standards. However, the completion rates for these standards are much lower than for frameworks, with large numbers of apprentices withdrawing early from their programmes. It is vital to…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Experience, Influences, Persistence
Robin G. Isserles; Paoyi Huang – Teachers College Record, 2024
Purpose, Objective, Research Question, or Focus of Study: This paper seeks to understand the withdrawal patterns of students enrolled in an urban community college during the COVID-19 outbreak, by focusing on what students voiced about what made college-going so challenging for them from spring 2020 to fall 2021. What was revealed about their…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, College Students
Ruegg, Rachael – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
Retaining students until they complete their qualifications is one of the main aims of many higher education institutions. Retention of students is also looked at from different perspectives in the literature. This small, exploratory, narrative enquiry research looks into the experiences of twenty-one domestic students during their first year and…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
Bhat, Zahoor Ahmad; Khan, Mahmood Ahmad – Online Submission, 2022
The study aimed to analyze the educational participation of tribal students at the elementary stage of school education in district Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir. The study emphasized the enrolment of tribal students at various Grades (I, V, VI, VIII) at different points of time; compare the enrolment shares on a gender basis, and assess the change…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tribally Controlled Education, Tribes, Elementary Education
Florida Department of Education, 2022
Florida's high school graduation rate is based on the percentage of students who graduated with a standard diploma within four years of their first full year of enrollment in ninth grade in the state. However, adjustments are made to this cohort over time to: (1) add incoming transfer students based on their grade level and year of entry; (2)…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Withdrawal (Education), Documentation
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
Anessa L. Kidd – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research study utilized a phenomenology approach to determine barriers faced by two-year community college students and investigated ways in which colleges can mitigate these barriers in order to minimize students withdrawing from their courses. The objective was to explore students' experiences and perspectives to answer three research…
Descriptors: Barriers, Withdrawal (Education), Community College Students, Identification