This study was conducted to develop a means for implementing proven recruitment strategies to attract and retain students in postsecondary vocational programs in Florida. In order to achieve this purpose, the following objectives were set: (1) to identify methods to overcome the most significant barriers to student retention identified by…

This practice-application digest addresses what vocational education can do to reduce the almost 30 percent dropout rate among U.S. students. The first section describes factors that place students at risk, focusing on factors included in the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's definition of the term "at-risk." In the next…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate retention efforts in Ontario (Canada) secondary schools in order to develop policy and support initiatives designed to reduce dropouts and improve retention rates. The study had four parts: (1) an analysis of credit accumulation for four cohorts and academic achievement patterns over 4 years in 16 schools;…

A study of attrition after the first year of college was conducted with the 1984 entry class (N=233) of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). A path-analytic model of nine factors affecting student persistence was tested. The nine factors were: cumulative grade point average, a composite academic performance index, ability in oral…

During the past several years the Phoenix Union High School has experienced a phenomenal decline in enrollment and a high dropout rate. To focus on enrollment statistics, number of dropouts, causes for dropping out, number of dropouts by race, percent of absences, and transfers, computerized data received from district high schools were analyzed.…

Principal-component factor analyses were performed on patient input (demographic and pretherapy expectations), therapist input (demographic), and patient perspective therapy process variables that significantly differentiated early dropout from nondropout outpatients at two community mental health centers. (Author)

A theoretical model is attempted that explains the processes of interaction between the individual and the institution that lead differing individuals to drop out from the institutions. Recent research in the field is also reviewed to gain new insights into the social process of dropping out from higher education. (Author/DEP)

Research supported by Research Grant 5 R01 MH-12187 from the National Institute of Mental Health

In fiscal 1973, Ohio elected to concentrate training for staff in adult basic education (ABE) in eight cities. A review of records indicated that 143 ABE teachers in 5 of those cities attended 1 to 4 workshops that year. This study sought to answer three questions about these teachers: their long-term (7 years or more) retention in adult…

Preliminary findings from a study of black student retention and progression in higher education are reported. The findings are based on the responses of eight public and private universities to an Institutional Data Questionnaire (IDQ). Analysis of the IDQ shows that, overall, white students perform better than black students in terms of their…

This volume contains a comprehensive review and analysis of existing Australian research on early school leaving behavior, focusing on girls. Part One gives an overview of school leavers, and data on general trends are considered. Observable trends in school leaving statistics are examined from antecedents through the school leaving decision to…

A study of 215 inactive students (1973 to the end of the summer semester 1977) of the School of Technical Careers (STC) Baccalaureate Program was conducted to answer three questions: (1) How do inactive students differ from graduates?; (2) Why did they leave the Baccalaureate Program?; and (3) What have they done since leaving the program? Major…

TO INVESTIGATE STUDENTS' ABILITY TO COMPLETE FOUR YEARS OF COLLEGE WITHIN FOUR YEARS, 36,405 COLLEGE STUDENTS AT 246 INSTITUTIONS WERE POLLED BEFORE AND AFTER A FOUR YEAR INTERVAL. WHEN STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS WERE RELATED TO THEIR DROPOUT OR NONDROPOUT STATUS (DETERMINED BY THEIR SUCCESS IN COMPLETING FOUR YEARS WORK IN FOUR YEARS), IT WAS FOUND…

The primary purposes of this project were to provide data for developing operational proposals and programs for dealing with the dropout problem. Information and statistics were gathered about school dropouts in St. Cloud, Minnesota; age and grade, type of student, current functioning and future plans, expressed reasons for leaving, etiological…

American Indian students who were enrolled in the eighth grade in the 1962-63 school year in a six-state area of the Southwest were studied through 1967 to determine the percentages of high school dropouts and graduates from public, private, and Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Of the sample of 1217, dropout levels were not identified for 9…