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Scheel, Michael John; Madabhushi, Soumya; Backhaus, Autumn – Counseling Psychologist, 2009
School dropout is a problem that has distressing personal and societal consequences. Not surprising, students who drop out are typically not academically motivated. This phenomenological study examined the meanings that students construct about academic motivation while participating in a dropout prevention program that primarily uses counseling.…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Self Efficacy, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Petrovich, Janice; Parsons, James L. – 1989
Half of all Hispanics living in the United States aged 25 or over have not finished high school. According to the 2-year longitudinal study from which this report is drawn, 64.4 percent of the 700 ninth-grade students in the sample reported that their fathers or stepfathers did not complete high school. For mothers and stepmothers, the percentage…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Grade 9, High School Students