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Melisa Diaz Lema; Melvin Vooren; Marta Cannistrà; Chris van Klaveren; Tommaso Agasisti; Ilja Cornelisz – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Study success in Higher Education is of primary importance in the European policy agenda. Yet, given the diverse educational landscape across countries and institutions, more coordinated action is needed to gain a more solid knowledge of the dropout phenomenon. This study aims to gain a better insight into students' dropout based on an integrated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropout Research, College Students, Dropouts
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Edwin Buenaño; María José Beletanga; Mónica Mancheno – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
University dropout is a serious problem in higher education that is increasingly gaining importance, as it is essential to understand its causes and search for public and institutional policies that can help reduce it. This research uses conventional and extended Cox survival models to analyze the factors behind dropout rates at a co-financed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate
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Andrea Zanellati; Stefano Pio Zingaro; Maurizio Gabbrielli – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
Academic dropout remains a significant challenge for education systems, necessitating rigorous analysis and targeted interventions. This study employs machine learning techniques, specifically random forest (RF) and feature tokenizer transformer (FTT), to predict academic attrition. Utilizing a comprehensive dataset of over 40 000 students from an…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Characteristics, Potential Dropouts, Artificial Intelligence
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Mendes Vieira, Kelmara; Bender Filho, Reisoli; Da Silva Costa Junior, Elizeu; Martins Santos, Gilberto – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2023
This research seeks to understand the determinants of student dropout in the courses offered at the Open University of Brazil system at the Federal University of Santa Maria. The research used the following methods: survival function, factorial analysis, and logistic function. Results indicated that male students, with higher levels of income, who…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Dropouts, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Dahir Abdi Ali; Ali Mohamud Hussein – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the extent of dropout students and identify the relationship between risk factors of dropout and the survival time of students. Design/methodology/approach: The Kaplan-Meier estimator (KM), also known as the product-limit technique, is a nonparametric model function that is commonly used in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, At Risk Students, Potential Dropouts
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Chuan Cai; Adam Fleischhacker – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2024
We propose a novel approach to address the issue of college student attrition by developing a hybrid model that combines a structural neural network with a piecewise exponential model. This hybrid model not only shows the potential to robustly identify students who are at high risk of dropout, but also provides insights into which factors are most…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attrition, Dropouts, Potential Dropouts
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Naaman, Hind – European Educational Researcher, 2021
Higher education dropout has been considered a major concern for several researchers in the field of education around the World. Although different studies were carried out to deal with the topic, they all faced common limitations. This paper explores the twofold research conducted to investigate higher education dropout in Education studies at…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Research, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Cannistrà, Marta; Masci, Chiara; Ieva, Francesca; Agasisti, Tommaso; Paganoni, Anna Maria – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This paper combines a theoretical-based model with a data-driven approach to develop an Early Warning System that detects students who are more likely to dropout. The model uses innovative multilevel statistical and machine learning methods. The paper demonstrates the validity of the approach by applying it to administrative data from a leading…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Potential Dropouts, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Characteristics
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Ntema, Ratoeba Piet – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2022
Student dropout is a significant concern for university administrators, students and other stakeholders. Dropout is recognised as highly complex due to its multi-causality, which is expressed in the existing relationship in its explanatory variables associated with students, their socio-economic and academic conditions, and the characteristics of…
Descriptors: College Students, Dropout Characteristics, At Risk Students, Profiles
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Clara Mumme; Laura M. Leipert; Regina Vollmeyer – Discover Education, 2025
This study investigates the predictive influences of expectancies and values that may sustain students' dropout intentions in physics as well as gender differences in students' motivation and intention. Eccles's expectancy-value model was used to frame the study. The academic self-concept (expectancy component) and value components focusing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expectation, Values, Dropout Attitudes
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Wild, Steffen; Rahn, Sebastian; Meyer, Thomas – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
Student dropout in higher education is a challenge for higher education systems. In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on analyzing motivational aspects in order to counteract dropout. However, the detailed impact mechanisms and processes of motivation on dropout have not been sufficiently researched. For example, there is very…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Cooperative Education, Dropout Characteristics
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Alvarez, Niurys Lázaro; Callejas, Zoraida; Griol, David – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2020
We present an educational data analytics case study aimed at the early detection of potential dropout in Computer Engineering studies in Cuba. We have employed institutional data of 456 students and performed several experiments for predicting their permanency into three (promotion, repetition, and dropout) or two classes (promoting, not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Computer Science Education, Engineering Education
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Kerstin Wagner; Agathe Merceron; Petra Sauer; Niels Pinkwart – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2024
In this paper, we present an extended evaluation of a course recommender system designed to support students who struggle in the first semesters of their studies and are at risk of dropping out. The system, which was developed in earlier work using a student-centered design, is based on the explainable k-nearest neighbor algorithm and recommends a…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Algorithms, Foreign Countries, Course Selection (Students)
Kimberly Beets – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Using descriptive statistics and logistic regressions, this study compared U.S. Census data from 22-24-year-old women in 1980 and 2020 to determine the individual and contextual variables most predictive of bachelor's degree attainment. The regressions were conducted for women overall, women who have ever enrolled in college, mothers, and mothers…
Descriptors: Females, Adults, College Graduates, Time to Degree
Garcia, Kimberly Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Not all students who enroll in college complete their degree. Students who drop out of college and fail to graduate represent a dilemma for higher education administrators. Determining factors that may lead to attrition has been a topic of discussion amongst educators. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are any relationships…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, College Students, Predictor Variables, Correlation
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