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Juan Pablo Salazar-Fernandez; Jorge Munoz-Gama; Marcos Sepúlveda – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
Understanding how students with low socioeconomic status finance their tuition over time can help us comprehend the impact of students' decisions on their subsequent curricular progress, graduation, or dropout. This work presents a curricular analytics approach using process mining techniques to study educational funding trajectories as processes.…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Merit Scholarships, Student Needs, Learning Trajectories
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Ajara Mahmoud; Emmanuel Intsiful; Priscilla Tuffour; Fred Kofi Boateng – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2024
Higher education in countries like Ghana faces significant challenges, including financial barriers, which usually hinder students' educational progress and graduation rates. While some students usually rely on family support and personal savings, these resources are generally insufficient for covering all educational expenses. Although student…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Student Financial Aid, Decision Making, Behavior Theories
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Matilda A. Frick; Johan Isaksson; Sofia Vadlin; Susanne Olofsdotter – Youth & Society, 2024
Using a three-wave (mean age 14.4, 17.4, and 20.4 years) longitudinal design (N = 1,834; 55.6% females), we set out to map direct and indirect effects of adolescent peer victimization and mental health on academic achievement in early adulthood, and the buffering effect of positive family relations. Data was collected in Sweden 2012 to 2018. We…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Adolescents, Victims, Mental Health
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Jacobson, Maya R. – Preventing School Failure, 2021
Traumatic experiences in children are pervasive, and trauma has been correlated with adverse academic outcomes, including school dropout. This research study aimed to answer the following question: According to selected educators in specialized programs in Ontario, in what ways are trauma-informed frameworks used to support the social-emotional…
Descriptors: Trauma, Teaching Methods, Student Needs, Stress Variables
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Jensen, Maria Reinholdt; van der Wel, Kjetil A.; Bråthen, Magne – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This article investigates the role of socioeconomic family resources in modifying the relationships with upper secondary school completion (SSC) for three mental health dimensions, i.e., externalizing, internalizing and substance use disorders. Using data from administrative registers, we follow a cohort in Norway born in 1996 into early…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mental Disorders, Secondary School Students, Socioeconomic Influences
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von Simson, Kristine; Brekke, Idunn; Hardoy, Inés – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The aim of the study has been to examine the impact of diagnosed internalising and externalising behavioural problems on educational attainment. We used a fixed-effect model on rich individual longitudinal register data. The sample consisted of five full cohorts of adolescents (N=242,542). The analyses suggest that compared to their healthy peers,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Behavior Problems
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van Klaveren, Chris; Kooiman, Karen; Cornelisz, Ilja; Meeter, Martijn – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2019
This study examines whether providing students with information on their future study success will influence their higher education enrollment decision and lower first-year dropout as a consequence. A randomized field experiment is conducted among 313 law and social science applicants at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The main results suggest…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, Probability, Feedback (Response)
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Blondal, Kristjana S.; Adalbjarnardottir, Sigrun – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
Students' different educational pathways were examined in relation to their disengagement during adolescence. The participants were Icelandic youth (N = 832) who were followed from age 14 to 22. Based on their academic achievement at age 15 and educational attainment at age 22 they were classified into groups that took expected versus unexpected…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Adolescents, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement
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Armstrong, Rebecca; Arnott, Wendy; Copland, David A.; McMahon, Katie; Khan, Asaduzzaman; Najman, Jake M.; Scott, James G. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2017
Background: Population-based studies have found that early language delays are associated with poorer long-term outcomes in adolescence and adulthood. Few studies have explored the influence of change in language ability over time on adult outcomes. Aim: To examine the educational, vocational and mental health outcomes for adults accounting for…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development, Language Impairments, Adults
Pelayo, Jose Maria G., III; Mallari, Shedy Dee C.; Wong, Abigail B. – Online Submission, 2017
This study focused on monitoring the influx of senior high school students and as of November 4, 2017, the Assessment, Counseling, Alumni and Placement (ACAP) Center has 341 examinees from different high schools in the province. Based on the results of the survey, the top 5 schools are Angeles City National Trade School, Angeles City National High…
Descriptors: High School Students, Evaluation, Vocational Education, High Schools
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2017
This fact sheet reports on inclusive education and students with special needs in British Columbia, including changes to the composition of students with special needs in public schools, cuts to specialist teaching positions, and graduation rates for students with special needs.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Disabilities, Public Schools
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Sutton, Stephen G.; Gyuris, Emma – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this study was twofold: first, to optimize the Environmental Attitudes Inventory (EAI) and second, to establish a baseline of the difference in environmental attitudes between first and final year students, taken at the start of a university's declaration of commitment to EfS. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment)
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2018
The Aboriginal "How are we Doing?" report provides information about Aboriginal students (including adults) performance in Public school. Readers should notice that there are changes to historical and trend data. Once a student has self-identified as being of Aboriginal ancestry, the student is included in all report outcomes for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, American Indian Students, Academic Achievement
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2017
This report provides information about the performance of Aboriginal students (including adults) in British Columbia's public schools. Ten sections include: (1) Introduction; (2) Student and District Context (Kindergarten-Grade 12), 2012/13-2016/17 (including gender differences, alternative programs, and special needs students); (3) Foundation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, American Indian Students, Academic Achievement
Kronholz, June – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
People who deal with at-risk teens say dropping out is not an event; it's a process. Youngsters miss school and get "backed up" in class, so they miss more school because they're bewildered or embarrassed, and fall further behind. In the three years the 75-seat Hampton Performance Learning Center (PLC) has been open, it claims to have…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Adolescents, Sanctions, Learning Centers (Classroom)
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