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Oscar Espinoza; Luis Sandoval; Luis González; Karina Maldonado; Yahira Larrondo; Bruno Corradi – Educational Review, 2025
Students who drop out of university cite various reasons for their decision. Female enrolment has significantly increased over the past few decades and is now higher than male enrolment. In terms of performance, it is recognised that women perform better than males do, and fewer women drop out of university than men do. However, the relationship…
Descriptors: Dropouts, College Students, Gender Differences, Dropout Characteristics
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Gabriella Pusztai; Anett Hrabéczy; Cintia Csók – Open Education Studies, 2025
Since the expansion of higher education began, student motivation and institutional choice have been widely studied, yet the reasons behind high dropout rates in public institutions in Central and Eastern Europe remain poorly understood. In our research, we sought to answer the question of what subjective and objective factors predict an increased…
Descriptors: College Students, Dropout Prevention, Parent Participation, At Risk Students
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Perienen Appavoo; Meera Gungea; Mrinal Sohoraye – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2023
Dropout is a global and complex phenomenon affecting all universities. This study aimed at investigating the intrinsic and extrinsic factors causing dropout at the Open University of Mauritius (OU). Secondary data about 1885 learners were collected for five intakes and three levels of study -- foundation, undergraduate and Master courses. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Open Universities, Distance Education
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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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Rachana Desai; Ansuyah Magan; Robert A.C. Ruiter; Priscilla S. Reddy; Liesbeth A.G. Mercken – SAGE Open, 2024
Out of school youth (OSY) are adolescents who have not completed their schooling and are not currently enrolled in school. This study sought to understand why learners drop out of school by interviewing 41 OSY (aged 13-20 years). Respondent Driven Sampling was used to recruit OSY. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. Gender differences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Out of School Youth, Dropouts
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Dorothea Glaesser; Christopher Holl; Julia Malinka; Laura McCullagh; Lydia Meissner; Nicole Syringa Harth; Maya Machunsky; Kristin Mitte – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Disengagement is a concept that captures the gradual behavioral, affective, and cognitive distancing from school, and is thus an early indicator of students being at risk for dropout. Based on a social identity framework, we predicted that higher social identification with the class and a positive classroom climate would be associated with lower…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Social Environment, At Risk Students, Educational Environment
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Tim Baalmann; Ana Brömmelhaus; Julika Hülsemann; Michael Feldhaus; Karsten Speck – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2024
The importance of close social contacts in the educational process has been widely documented, but mainly for the school sector. The present article examines the importance of close relationships on university students' dropout tendencies. Using longitudinal panel data collected at a medium-sized German university, students (N = 7,169) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Influence, Peer Influence, Intention
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Rodrigo Duran; Silvia Amélia Bim; Itana Gimenes; Leila Ribeiro; Ronaldo Celso Messias Correia – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2023
"Motivation": Enrollments in Brazilian computing degrees are at an all-time high, but graduation numbers have not increased at the same rate. Moreover, enrollment growth has mainly attracted male students, steadily expanding the gender gap in Brazilian computing programs. Such high attrition rates have a great economic impact and may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Persistence, Intention, Dropout Characteristics
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Bayón-Calvo, Siro; Lucas-García, Jezabel; Gómez-García, Rogelio – European Journal of Education, 2021
Early school leaving is a major social problem and a socio-political priority in knowledge-based societies, especially in southern European countries that have a tendency for comparatively high dropout rates. The literature has focused strongly on the exogenous factors that cause students to leave school early. Meanwhile, endogenous factors, such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Academic Achievement
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Bhat, Nazir Ahmad – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2020
The Government of India is viewing with concern the fact that even after 73 years of independence, the constitutional directive contained in Article 45, which enjoys that "The state shall provide free and compulsory education for all children until they complete the age of 14 years" has not been achieved. No doubt, a large number of…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Dropout Research
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Gutierrez-Pachas, Daniel A.; Garcia-Zanabria, Germain; Cuadros-Vargas, Alex J.; Camara-Chavez, Guillermo; Poco, Jorge; Gomez-Nieto, Erick – Education Sciences, 2022
Computer science is a dynamic field of study that requires constant review and updating of the curricular designs in academic programs--in general, measuring the impact of plan changes has been little explored in the literature. In most cases, it focuses only on structuring its curricula, leaving aside several factors associated with important…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Computer Science Education, Case Studies
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Kilinç, Hakan; Okur, Muhammet Recep – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2021
Within the scope of this study, it is aimed to examine the dropout status of learners enrolled in Anadolu University Open Education Faculty during the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 academic years. For this purpose, a descriptive research method was used to describe the current situation. The findings obtained within the scope of this study were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, College Students, Student Characteristics
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Anaïs Glorieux; Bram Spruyt; Joeri Minnen; Theun Pieter van Tienoven – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
This article investigates whether experiences of the PhD trajectory during the first year of enrolment predict dropout during a later stage. More specifically, we studied how supervisor support, time pressure and passion for research relate to dropout among PhD students and assessed the role of discipline in this process. We used longitudinal data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs
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Zengin, Mevsim – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
The aim of this study is to determine the risk level of high school students for dropout. The sample of the research in the descriptive survey model consisted of 578 students studying in public high schools in the central districts of Mersin. The "School Dropout Risk Scale" was used as a data collection tool in the study. According to…
Descriptors: High School Students, At Risk Students, Potential Dropouts, Dropout Prevention
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Thumiki, Venkat Ram Raj – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Main reasons for student dropout from higher education may be low academic performance, poor socialization skills, low confidence levels, busy social life and financial issues. As students' dropout from higher education has been rising, there is a need to understand this problem for finding suitable solutions. Research objectives for this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Dropouts, Stopouts
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