Online education has been experiencing steadily increasing enrollment rates and it is therefore vital to study student and institutional factors related to dropout risk for online students. Currently, prior research examining this rapidly developing field is limited. With online graduate programs experiencing continuous growth in enrollment rates,…

May 14, 2013 marked the 10 year anniversary of the creation of the Louisiana Recovery School District (RSD), the turnaround intervention for low performing public schools. Since 2003, the RSD has grown to include over 80 schools across the state. The purpose of this multilevel longitudinal study was to examine the relationship of the Louisiana…

Swift and Greenberg (2012) observed that variables influencing the decision to drop out fluctuate according to the primary presenting problem, the amount of structure in therapy, the length of treatment, and the clinical setting. Due to these reports, researchers may focus on predictors of premature termination (PT) in treatment settings where the…