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Beifang Ma; Maximilian Krötz; Viola Deutscher; Esther Winther – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
High drop-out rates from Vocational Education and Training (VET) remain a severe problem in VET systems globally. Despite decades of drop-out research revealing numerous influencing factors, the role of trainees' vocational competence in their drop-out behavior has been neglected. This study aims to define the structure of vocational competence…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Dropout Research, Foreign Countries, Competence
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Georg, Werner – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
Since the 1970s, research on why students discontinue their university studies has been a major topic, especially in American educational sociology and university socialization research. With the aid of multilevel models, this contribution examines the relationship between institutional and individual factors in influencing the tendency to drop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Dropout Research, School Holding Power
Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association, Alexandria. – 2001
This document contains 95 papers and summaries of 5 poster sessions from an Australian conference on putting vocational education and training (VET) research to work. The following are among the areas covered in the papers: factors affecting VET graduates' employability over time; technical and further education (TAFE) institutes as models of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Case Studies