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Tarrant County Junior Coll., Fort Worth, TX. South Campus. – 1984
An analysis is presented of factors and conditions affecting student completion rates in the remedial mathematics program (Mathematics 1403) in the Tarrant County (Texas) Junior College District. Following introductory material on the purposes of the study and the tasks of five project teams, chapter I examines the purpose and historical…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Dropout Rate
Download full textAitken, Larry P.; Falk, Dennis R. – 1983
To improve Chippewa Indian retention in higher education, 277 Indian students, 7 key informants, and 11 service providers were surveyed to determine facilitating factors as well as obstacles. Of the 277 students, 125 responded to the questionnaire. The sample included former college graduates, college dropouts, and current students. Service…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, College Graduates, College Students
McIntosh, Naomi E. – 1973
The study looks at the way in which survey research has helped at different stages in the life of the Open University in Great Britain. Since Open University students are studying at a distance, the major source of information about them and about the way they study has been from survey research. This research has provided an input to academic…
Descriptors: College Students, Dropout Research, External Degree Programs, Foreign Countries
Westat Research, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 1977
Approaches to sampling are suggested for use by states in reporting more effectively on the completers and leavers in vocational education programs. Following an introductory chapter, six others outline the proposed plan for followup studies. Chapter 2, a task outline for a proposed ongoing sampling survey, divides the first three of the followup…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Dropout Research
Pezzullo, Diane – 1978
This brief focuses on student attrition and retention in the two-year college. An introductory section discusses the definitions of attrition used in studies of student persistence; and how these definitions, which often include students who are actually completers in terms of their own educational goals, may exaggerate attrition rates, which are…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Colleges, Definitions, Dropout Characteristics
Merritt Coll., Oakland, CA. – 1963
IN AN ATTEMPT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PROGRESS OF STUDENTS THROUGH OAKLAND CITY COLLEGE, AN INTENSIVE STUDY OF ONE ENTERING CLASS OF 1,463 FIRST-TIME FRESHMEN WAS STARTED IN THE FALL SEMESTER 1960. A SERIES OF EIGHT REPORTS FOLLOWS THESE STUDENTS FOR SEVEN SEMESTERS. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE STUDY 11 PERCENT OF THE ORIGINAL GROUP WERE STILL…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, Dropout Research, Followup Studies
Reeb, Richard – 1979
In 1976, a study determined that student retention had increased markedly following Barstow College's transition from a semester to a quarter system. In 1979, another study was conducted to determine: (1) the accuracy of the 1976 figures; (2) the effect of the shortness of the time period considered in the 1976 study on its reliability; (3) the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Courses, Dropout Rate
Bennett, Lula M. – 1977
In order to determine the characteristics, educational motivations, and opinions of "step-in/step-out" students at Valencia Community College (VCC), the author sent questionnaires to 200 persons selected at random from those who had enrolled for less than 12 hours credit between September 1975 and January 1977 and who were eligible to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Educational Objectives
Tweddale, R. Bruce – 1977
The attendance behavior of students who were new to Grand Valley State Colleges (GVSC) for both fall 1975 and fall 1976 is analyzed, comparing those who returned for winter term against those who did not. Seventy-three percent of the new students entering in fall 1975 were found to return for the winter term compared to 68 percent of those…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Cluster Colleges, College Freshmen, College Students
Schell, Robert E. – 1978
A survey involving 125 students who voluntarily withdrew from the State University College at Oswego, was conducted to determine student characteristics and their reasons for withdrawing, as well as to examine suggestions for reducing attrition. Examination of the data suggests that seniors withdrew less frequently than did members of other…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Attrition (Research Studies), Career Choice, Counseling Services
Educational Experience of Part-Time University Students. Report 3. Factors Associated with Drop-out.
Bhatnagar, Joti – 1975
During the last decade the growth in part-time enrollment of Canadian universities has been greater than growth in full-time enrollment, and the trend is expected to accelerate. Focusing on the dropout, a phenomenon of major concern in part-time university education, survey was made of all new students registered in the Mature Students Qualifying…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Demography, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Rahm, Carl M. – 1973
The report describes a study designed to examine substitution between formal schooling and dropouts' post-school training or experience in the labor market. The basic hypothesis is that if formal schooling and post-school training are substitutes, then experience-earnings profiles measured in the logarithm of earnings should tend to converge. To…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dropout Research, Dropouts, High School Graduates
Beirn, Russell; And Others – 1972
This analytical survey of research on early school leaving was done under the auspices of the Center for Studies in Education and Development at the Graduate School of Education of Harvard University. The purpose of the study is to offer an introduction to research on the antecedents and consequences of early school leaving for planners,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Area Studies, Bulletins, Developing Nations
Mink, Oscar G., Ed.; Kaplan, Bernard A., Ed. – 1970
This book is the result of a series of workshops designed for school personnel desiring to improve educational programs for disadvantaged youth and potential dropouts. The workshops were conducted at Cornell University during the summer of 1964 through 1967. The chapters in this book on milieu, basic issues, dropout problems, counseling the…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counseling Objectives, Counseling Services, Counseling Theories
Elliott, Delbert S.; Voss, Harwin L. – 1974
This volume describes a test of a theoretical explanation of delinquency and dropout in terms of four variables: (1) aspiration-opportunity disjunction, (2) internal-external attribution of blame, (3) alienation or normlessness, and (4) access and exposure to delinquent groups. In this research a type of cluster sample was used in which the basic…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Delinquency, Delinquency Causes, Dropout Characteristics
