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Direct linkRoome, Anna Kathryn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The issue within education reform of high dropout rates has been an enduring problem for education in the United States (U.S.) since the 1960s. Dropping out of high school is associated with a broad range of social pathologies in adulthood, including poor job prospects, the propensity to engage in criminal behavior, out-of-wedlock births, low…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Student Characteristics, Public Schools, Potential Dropouts
Download full textMac Iver, Martha Abele; Messel, Matthew – Council of the Great City Schools, 2012
This study of high school outcomes in the Baltimore City Public Schools builds on substantial prior research on the early warning indicators of dropping out. It sought to investigate whether the same variables that predicted a non-graduation outcome in other urban districts--attendance, behavior problems, and course failure--were also significant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Enrollment, Behavior Problems
Guarino, A. J.; Hocevar, Dennis – College and University, 2005
Tinto developed a model to predict the attrition process. The model respects a longitudinal perspective and regards persistence as a function of the quality of a student's interactions with the academic and social systems of the college. Tinto asserts that the two primary factors related to student withdrawal are the personal characteristics of…
Descriptors: Models, Locus of Control, Academic Persistence, Student Attrition
Catterall, James S. – 1986
This paper draws on path-like models of student attrition developed by researchers concerned with American higher education to suggest a process model of dropping out of school which is applicable to secondary schools. It notes that existing research on school dropouts has been conducted largely without the guidance of such a model. Central…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Models
Peer reviewedTerenzini, Patrick T.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – Research in Higher Education, 1977
The validity of Tinto's (1975) theory of student attrition, which asserts that withdrawal relates most directly to students' integration in the social and academic systems of an institution, is examined. This study supports that theory and also suggests that informal interaction with faculty plays an important role as well. (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), College Freshmen, Dropout Research, Higher Education
Demery, Marie – 1995
This proactive research and development model presents data of misfortune, reality, and hope for approximately 40 percent of American children labeled as "at-risk." The model was based on the premise that in spite of their past and an environment of failure, these children can learn successfully and continuously through the balancing of…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Cultural Pluralism, Discipline, Dropout Prevention
