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Ostman, Ronald E.; And Others – 1988
The New Zealand Technical Correspondence Institute studied the internal and external factors influencing adult students enrolled in a tertiary-level distance education management course to abandon their studies. A literature review afforded definitions of: (1) distance education; (2) educational technology; and (3) drop out. Although research has…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Business Administration Education, Curriculum Development
Chicago Public Schools, IL. – 1964
THIS REPORT BY A CITYWIDE COMMITTEE DESCRIBES EXISTING PROGRAMS FOR POTENTIAL SCHOOL DROPOUTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EXPANSION AND IMPROVEMENT. AMONG THE EXISTING PROVISIONS ARE (1) REGULAR INSERVICE SESSIONS FOR TEACHERS IN AREAS WHERE THE DROPOUT RATE IS HIGH, (2) PERIODIC FACULTY MEETINGS, (3) A FACULTY COMMITTEE TO GIVE SOME DIRECTION IN…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research
SCHRIEBER, DANIEL; AND OTHERS – 1965
ALTHOUGH THE DROPOUT PROBLEM IS ONE OF GREAT CONCERN AT BOTH LOCAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS, IT IS READILY APPARENT THAT THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE SAME EVERYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY. DROPOUT RATES VARY CONSIDERABLY FROM ONE COMMUNITY TO ANOTHER, AND EVEN DIFFER BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE SAME SCHOOL SYSTEM. LIMITATIONS IN PREVIOUS STUDIES OF THE PROBLEM HAVE…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Guidance Programs
Download full textLenning, Oscar T.; And Others – 1980
The research literature on types of student retention, correlates of retention, and action strategies to improve retention is reviewed. Retention or student persistence can be assessed in terms of completion of a degree of certificate, a program but not a degree, or a term or course. Retention may also be persistence to attain a personal goal but…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Admission, College Attendance, College Environment
Bowman, David L. – 1968
The initial phase (1967-1968) of a longitudinal study designed to provide more teachers of the disadvantaged by (1) recruiting education students who have withdrawn from college for academic reasons but have greater scholastic potential than they have demonstrated and (2) modifying teacher education programs to train these individuals as teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Attitude Change, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedConklin, Karen A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1997
Describes the results of an ongoing course attrition study, designed to determine which classes were most often dropped and the factors impacting students' decisions to drop them. Students cited conditions both within and beyond the control of college administration as influential. (JDI)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Dropout Research
Tarrant County Junior Coll., Fort Worth, TX. South Campus. – 1984
An analysis is presented of factors and conditions affecting student completion rates in the remedial mathematics program (Mathematics 1403) in the Tarrant County (Texas) Junior College District. Following introductory material on the purposes of the study and the tasks of five project teams, chapter I examines the purpose and historical…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Dropout Rate
Claus, Richard N.; And Others – 1979
During 1978-79, the third year of the three-district Cooperative Project in American Indian Development, three of six objectives were met and three partially fulfilled. On a $58,425 budget, planners successfully increased Indian parents' involvement in the project and conducted two pilot studies. The first, to research the dropout rate of Saginaw…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Studies
TAYLOR, ROBERT E. – 1967
THE CENTER WAS ESTABLISHED MARCH 1, 1965, TO PERFORM RESEARCH, DEVELOP PILOT PROJECTS, AND ENCOURAGE EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION. THE ERIC CLEARINGHOUSE FOR VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION WAS ESTABLISHED MARCH 1, 1966, AS PART OF THE CENTER. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CENTER ARE TO (1) CONTINUALLY…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Guidance, Conferences, Cooperative Education
National TAFE Clearinghouse, Adelaide (Australia). – 1986
These issues contain abstracts of research reports, literature reviews, conference proceedings, directories, project reports, and other documents describing work being done in the field of technical and further education in Australia. The issues contain 127 and 172 entries, respectively. Each entry contains the following information: a Technical…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Adult Education
