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PDF pending restorationWilson, Russell C. – 1977
The Adjective Check List (ACL) was administered to 142 enrolling GED students to investigate the relationship between students' self-descriptions on the instrument and their persuant persistence behavior in the program. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant ACL scale score differences between those students who discontinued their…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Attendance
Bard, Bernard – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1969
Condensed from "The Kiwanis Magazine, Volume 53 (September 1968), 22-25, 42.
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Philadelphia School District, PA. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1977
Results of the third survey of Philadelphia Public High School dropouts were obtained from 1629 respondents. Questionnaires, in postcard form, were mailed in September 1976 to all the 1975-1976 dropouts listed in the pupil directory file. Respondents answered the following questions: (1) Are you working? (2) Are you unemployed? (3) Are you looking…
Descriptors: Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Download full textHunt, Neen; Woods, Jerry – 1979
The data for this report on school dropouts in New York City were collected by means of in-depth interviews with high school staff members, students, and dropouts. A total of 229 persons were interviewed in 53 high schools with dropout prevention programs distributed throughout the city. All respondents were asked approximately 50 open-ended…
Descriptors: Discipline, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Fox, William M.; Elder, Nancy – 1980
This report reviews the current literature on dropouts and school discipline and discusses a survey of ten North Country high schools used to generate information to be used by schools when re-evaluating policies regarding these issues. Survey data was collected using questionnaires completed by the principals of the ten schools. Recommendations…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, Discipline Problems, Dropout Characteristics
Nevada State Dept. of Education, Carson City. – 1966
THIS DOCUMENT PRESENTS STATISTICAL DATA OF SCHOOL DROPOUTS AND SCHOOL HOLDING POWER IN NEVADA. THE DATA ARE BASED ON RECORDS SUBMITTED BY ALL NEVADA SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVING PUPILS IN GRADES 7 THROUGH 12 DURING THE SCHOOL YEARS 1963-64 AND 1964-65. THESE DATA INCLUDE AGE, GRADE, SEX, ETHNIC GROUPING, CAUSAL FACTORS FOR LEAVING, ACHIEVEMENT,…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
Texas Univ., Austin. Center for Public Policy Priorities. – 1999
Texas has the third highest dropout rate in the nation. Various organizations that measure the Texas dropout rate using different methods disagree about actual numbers of dropouts. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) reports that 26,901 students in grades 7-12 dropped out in the 1996-97 school year. Dropouts were 29 percent White, 18 percent African…
Descriptors: Blacks, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
Jancek, Richard L. – 1999
All dropouts from Hiawatha High School (Kirkland, Illinois) in the last 3 years were surveyed to determine why they dropped out and what the school could do to deter students from dropping out. Nationally, dropping out is related to poverty, lack of parental support, drug abuse, learning disabilities, and a history of poor school performance.…
Descriptors: Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Smith, John E.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1971
The purpose of this study was to construct a scale to discriminate between those students who are likely to drop out of school and those who are not. The results indicate that this must be only the first of many steps. (Author)
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Educational Research
Peer reviewedBrown, Kevin M. – Distance Education, 1996
Discusses results of a survey of 148 off-campus students formerly enrolled in Deakin University (Australia) to assess factors that influenced their decisions to leave/withdraw. Implications of the findings for quality assurance in higher education and the development of more flexible modes of distance education are suggested. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Correlation, Distance Education, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
Peer reviewedKemp, Suzanne E. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2006
Students with and without disabilities are dropping out of school at an alarming rate. However, the precise extent of the problem remains elusive because individual schools, school districts, and state departments of education often use different definitional criteria and calculation methods. In addition, specific reasons why students drop out…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Disabilities, Secondary School Students, Public Schools
Natriello, Gary, Ed. – 1986
This book collects articles that examine the patterns of dropping out evident among American youth, and the policies developed and implemented to reduce the incidence of dropping out. The following chapters (and their authors) are included: (1) Introduction (G. Natriello); (2) Can We Help Dropouts? Thinking about the Undoable (D. Mann); (3) Large…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate
Michlein, Michael G.; And Others – 1976
A project was designed to develop and test (phase I), and implement (phase II) a research design for the study of student attrition in the Wisconsin vocational technical adult education (VTAE) system with the intent of identifying student attrition and determining its predictability. Phase I, the developmental aspect (described in this report),…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics
Peters, Otto – 1988
This article presents reflections on the high dropout rate at distance education universities in general and at the FernUniversitat in particular. The introduction outlines four reasons why the dropout rate should not be as high as it is. The first chapter--on general aspects--addresses problems of definition of dropout, the astounding differences…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
Caple, Diana – 1984
To examine why school leavers have difficulty completing high school and to study their long- and short-term career decisions, 250 school leavers or potential school leavers, aged 18-21, were surveyed. Based on 172 returns (69 percent), respondents were classified in three subgroups: (1) those who left high school, tried an alternative program but…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts
