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Waltz, Freddie C.; Beeman, Carl E. – 1984
To address the issues of student recruitment and retention in Florida, a three-year research study was conducted. The three phases of the study sought the following: (1) to describe barriers to recruitment and retention of disadvantaged, unemployed, underemployed, out-of-school youth as perceived by students, teachers, counselors, and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Administrator Attitudes, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Download full textSmith, Alan D. – 1981
Basic background information on college student attrition research studies is provided. This paper is divided into nine components that were prominent in the existing literature: (1) higher education and the concern for attrition; (2) factors involved in college student attrition; (3) demographic factors involved in college student attrition; (4)…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attrition (Research Studies), College Students, Demography
Holmes, Marion B. W. – 1988
The Education for Employment Initiative is a cooperative effort of the School District of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Office of Employment Security, and the Private Industry Council to increase the employment opportunities for students and assist them in making the transition from school to work. In the 1987-88 school year, two locations were…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Community Organizations, Dropout Prevention, Employment Programs
Heard, Frank B. – 1988
The Middle College High School (MCHS) in Tennessee is an alternative school located on the Shelby State Community College (SSCC) campus, designed to provide special counseling, college preparation, and access to SSCC facilities for potential high school dropouts who have the capacity for secondary and postsecondary success. The program, which was…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Dropout Prevention
Stanley, Helen; And Others – 1976
This manual describes a project developed to assist schools to help low-motivated students to increase their attendance and motivation, and to help reduce dropouts by enhancing students' self-image and increasing their success experiences in school. Each chapter contains a step-by-step outline for developing each stage of the program: (1) student…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attendance, Counseling, Dropout Prevention
Gottlieb, Avi – 1987
This study of the effects of the Israeli rehabilitation system on disattached youth found little evidence that the programs examined had any impact. Israeli adolescents who neither work nor study are considered to be disattached. These youth are eventually absorbed into a variety of both voluntary and involuntary community residential educational…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Compensatory Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Delinquency
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. Office of Research and Planning. – 1983
This report provides data on public and private high school graduates and dropouts in Kentucky. The introduction contains tables and graphs comparing the career directions (attending college or trade school, military, working, at home, unemployed, deceased, homemakers, and unknown) of Kentucky graduates in 1968 and 1983 and enrollment patterns…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Enrollment Trends
Canada, Richard M.; And Others – 1982
This article reviews the literature on university student attrition and comments on general implications for secondary school counselors. The reasons that dropouts leave school are assessed, e.g., lack of interaction with faculty, a perceived lack of progress, and financial/family problems; and characteristics of non-returning students are…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Bound Students, College Students, Counseling Techniques
Wehlage, Gary; And Others – 1982
This four-part report provides both a theoretical framework and empirical data concerning effective programs for the marginal high school student. Part 1 addresses the problem of adolescent social development as a broad educational goal. Part 2 presents a set of six case studies describing special programs in Wisconsin designed for the marginal…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Dropout Prevention, Educational Objectives
Gutierrez, Manuel J.; Montalvo, Braulio – 1982
A 3-year longitudinal study of Puerto Rican youth (who were tenth graders during the first year of the study) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sought to identify determinants of decisions to remain in school or drop out, and to investigate delinquency among this population. Among girls, the study found no correlation between delinquency and dropping…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Delinquency, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Bergman, Irwin – 1976
In order to ascertain the effect of open admissions by investigating the graduation rate of basic skills students, a follow-up study was conducted of the 1,728 students who entered Queensborough Community College in fall 1970 and who were assigned to remedial reading and/or writing. Of a total enrollment of 3,230, 24% or 774 students were…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Reading, Dropout Rate
Hodges, Daniel L. – 1982
A review of research on student attrition suggests eight factors influencing students' decisions to remain in a course or in college that may respond to college, counselor, and teacher interventions. First, as low grades are consistently revealed as contributing to attrition, appropriate course placement, basic skills instruction, criterion-based…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Counselor Role, Dropout Prevention
Walleri, R. Dan – 1981
This five-part report provides background for a research design for the study of student attrition and retention in the community college. After Part I introduces the larger study of high risk students for which this paper was prepared, Part II defines the concepts of retention and attrition with respect to the attainment of student objectives…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Colleges, Community Colleges, Dropout Research
Poole, Millicent E.; Low, B. C. – 1981
The purpose of this study was to examine the major determinants of the "staying" and "leaving" process for samples of Melbourne (Australia) male and female adolescents. Sixty attitudinal statements were obtained from 796 adolescents and factor analysed. The subset of independent variables, together with a set of personality and…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adolescents, Discriminant Analysis, Dropout Research
Illinois State Board of Vocational Education and Rehabilitation, Springfield. – 1966
A 3-YEAR COOPERATIVE SUPERVISED JOB TRAINING PROGRAM WAS INITIATED TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF SUPERVISED JOB TRAINING ON LOW ACADEMIC ACHIEVERS AND PERSONS WHO HAD DEFINITE NEEDS FOR VOCATIONAL PREPAREDNESS IMMEDIATELY UPON LEAVING SCHOOL. FOUR SCHOOLS FROM THREE SCHOOL DISTRICTS PARTICIPATED IN THE PILOT PROGRAMS -- ROBINSON HIGH SCHOOL, MAINE…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts, High Schools, Low Achievement
