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Rahimi, Regina; Liston, Delores – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2018
Nationally, one in four high school students drops out in high school. Georgia, in particular, is very concerning with a 67% high school completion rate (Hickman & Heinrich, 2011) and a 41% drop out rate recorded for girls (National Women's Law Center, 2007). While these statistics are disturbing, they do not do justice to the reality of the…
Descriptors: Females, High School Students, Dropouts, At Risk Students
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Allen, Jeanne Maree; Wright, Suzie; Cranston, Neil; Watson, Jane; Beswick, Kim; Hay, Ian – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2018
This paper reports on the views of key members of the educational community about student engagement and retention in rural, regional and disadvantaged areas of the Australian state of Tasmania. It provides insights into the attributed reasons for the longstanding low levels of student retention in Tasmania, and the possible ways to militate…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, School Holding Power, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Ritchotte, Jennifer A.; Graefe, Amy K. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2017
Dropping out of school represents the culmination of a process that begins long before a student enters high school. It is estimated that a quarter of students with high potential leave school without a high school diploma; however, research on how high-potential students uniquely experience dropping out of school is in its beginning stages. This…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Academically Gifted, Phenomenology, Dropout Rate
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Nielsen, Klaus – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
This study provides support for the idea that school engagement is a central concept when trying to understand the dropout process. One of the strengths of this concept is that it involves understanding dropping out as a process, rather than as an event. However, the concept of school engagement also presents a number of problems. It tends to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Learner Engagement, Dropouts
Hepner, Seth – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The 1st-year retention rate of the Structured Education Program (SEP) is 90%, yet the 6-year graduation rate of SEP students is 29%. The gap between SEP 1st-year retention and graduation rates is the problem that this study addressed. The low graduation rate of SEP students is an important issue because graduation rates are used to measure the…
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, Graduation Rate, College Students, Dropouts
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Roland, Nathalie; Frenay, Mariane; Boudrenghien, Gentiane – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
Persistence in the first year at university is a phenomenon that has been studied many times. However, most research has taken a very linear view of the persistence process and little research has attempted to understand persistence by taking into account its full complexity. Yet the process of academic persistence is punctuated by striking events…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Qualitative Research, Dropouts, Dropout Rate
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Henry, Gyimah; Yelkpieri, Daniel – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2017
The study instigated the incidence of truancy among students and its influence on learning in the Dormaa Senior High School. A descriptive survey design was adopted in carrying out the study. The study population consisted of teachers, students, parents and opinion leaders in the study area. The simple random and purposive samplings were used in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Truancy, Attendance
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Papaioannou, Vasiliki; Anagnou, Evaggelos; Vergidis, Dimitris – International Education Studies, 2016
Correctional education in Greece has been implemented since 1980's. Second Chance Schools (SCS) in prisons were established in 2004, aiming at combating social exclusion. This study's aim is to look into the reasons of school dropout and to interpret why inmates take part in the educational program provided by SCS, registering the motives,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Adult Education
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Nairz-Wirth, Erna; Feldmann, Klaus – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2017
Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's relational theory this paper shows that many teachers misrecognize the impact of teacher-student relationships on school dropout. The study is based on a series of 60 semi-structured interviews with teachers from Austrian secondary schools. The analysis of the empirical data reveals that many teachers attribute school…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Semi Structured Interviews, Secondary School Teachers
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Bar-Am, Ran; Arar, Osama – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This article deals with the problem of student dropout during the first year in a higher education institution. To date, no model on a budget has been developed and tested to prevent dropout among Engineering Students. This case study was conducted among first-year students taking evening classes in two practical engineering colleges in Israel.…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Prevention, Budgets, Engineering Education
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Harvey, Andrew; Szalkowicz, Giovanna – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
Despite institutional strategies to prevent student withdrawal, attrition remains a concern across higher education sectors in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. In the case of Australian universities, attrition rates have remained consistently high since 2002. Some level of attrition is inevitable, but universities can influence…
Descriptors: Reentry Students, Withdrawal (Education), Nontraditional Students, Student Attrition
Andre, Enedine B. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Nationally an estimated 41% of traditional students who begin seeking an undergraduate degree do not persist through degree attainment. Guided by Tinto's theory of student departure and the theory of social integration, the purpose of this study was to identify the reasons students withdrew from college prior to degree completion. A qualitative…
Descriptors: Semi Structured Interviews, Withdrawal (Education), Coding, Undergraduate Students
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Grønborg, Lisbeth – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
This paper discusses how student identities are constituted through social categories and how this affects students' educational trajectories. Dropout is often described as a sudden event but this paper demonstrates how dropping out is a long-term process involving social interactions between the students. It is based on a field study in which the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Peer Relationship, Dropouts
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Ashida, Akemi; Sekiya, Takeshi – Education 3-13, 2016
While Honduras's post-1990s enrolment status has improved, no reports examine changes in status. We examined changes in enrolment patterns by analysing 1689 children's data using the true cohort method. We also analysed educational-development strategies/policies and project documentation. Grade-failure numbers did not improve over time because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade Repetition, Elementary School Students, Academic Failure
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Çelik, Çetin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Resilience research has increasingly gained ground in the field of education research, due to its potential for ameliorating inequalities. This article deals with the emergence of educational resilience, with particular attention to parental network structure, by employing a Bourdieusian social and cultural capital approach. While much of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Parents, Cultural Capital
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