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Standardizing School Dropout Measures. CPRE Research Reports
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Williams, Patricia A. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2017
Proposes the establishment of a uniform definition of school dropout which would help to more accurately measure the extent of the dropout problem. The report describes elements of dropout measures and examines factors that account for variation in measures from city to city and state to state. [This document is a reissue of the October 1987 CPRE…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Research, Dropout Rate, Definitions
WWC Evidence Review Protocol for Dropout Prevention Interventions, Version 3.0
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2014
What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) reviews in this topic area focus on dropout prevention interventions designed for use in secondary school (middle school, junior high school, and high school) or community-based settings to help students stay in school, progress in school, and/or complete school. Systematic reviews of evidence in this topic area…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Dropout Prevention, Intervention, Secondary School Students
Inspired Start: Experiences of Adult Students Confronting the Ged Process
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McKay, Pilar Erin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Options are limited to gaining a high school equivalency for dropouts. The General Education Development (GED) exam provides people who have left school one way of gaining their secondary school credential. Employing the use of in-depth interviews, auto-ethnography, and participant observation, this study reports the descriptive findings of twelve…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Student Experience, Interviews, Ethnography
Drop Out or Persist? The Influence of Differentiated Instruction and Teacher Behavior on College Freshmen and GED Students
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Robertson, Vera Strickland – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this research was to provide information to school administrators about the impact differentiated instruction and teacher behavior have on students' decision to drop out of high school or persist. The ultimate goal of this study is to determine if a significant relationship exists between differentiated instruction, teacher behavior…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Teacher Behavior, Dropout Research, Dropouts
The Level of Persistence in High School Drop-Outs Enrolled in the GED Program at a Rural Community College
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McCaskill-Mitchell, Sonja – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of the study was to identify factors that affect students' persistence in completion of the GED. Exploration of characteristics of participants that do/do not persist and obtain their GED assists the high school dropout, potential GED recipient, GED program staff, and society as a whole. More information was needed in order to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropouts, Predictor Variables, High School Equivalency Programs
Last Chance Gulch: Youth Participation in Urban Adult Basic Education Programs
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Perin, Dolores; Flugman, Bert; Spiegel, Seymour – Adult Basic Education: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Adult Literacy Educational Planning, 2006
In a case study of four urban adult basic education programs in a northeastern state, large increases in the participation of 16- to 20-year-old students were found. Many of these students were reading below the fifth-grade level despite aspiring to the General Education Development (GED) diploma. Reasons for youth participation included increased…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Dropouts, Dropout Research, Dropout Programs