Reasons dropouts offer for withdrawal from college and differences between respondents and nonrespondents to a followup questionnaire were studied. During the spring 1980 semester, freshmen and sophomores completed a questionnaire describing their background and college experiences. A total of 156 dropouts (those who did not complete courses…

Dropout prevention has become a compelling priority for school personnel. But high school dropout research leaves many school variables largely unexamined. This study describes a staffing committee that had been established in a large urban high school during the 1986-87 school year and responded specifically to referrals of students who were…

This Academic Skills Mini-Module is one of the first documented efforts designed for encouraging students to prevent themselves from dropping out of college. It is also a reflection of research findings which maintain that any methods used to help students to improve their academic performance will also minimize attrition rates. Academic…

This paper traces the inordinately high dropout rate in the Chicago public school system to a policy of educational triage in which the better prepared students are sent to more selective high schools while less prepared students are congregated into schools with a more than 50% dropout rate. Also examined are the effects of pre-high school grade…

A study was conducted at Minneapolis Community College to determine the point at which students dropped out of classes during fall quarter 1981 and to consider whether counseling interventions at any particular point during the quarter could reduce student attrition. A sample of 71 classes (20% of the classes offered) was taken, and instructors…

A study examined the attrition rate in the Wichita Practical Nursing School in Wichita, Kansas, and the effectiveness of a study skills workshop in reducing the attrition rate. Using a quasi-experimental control group design, the researcher studied the attrition rates of three consecutive classes at the school. The first two classes served as…

Chief concern of the Women's Programme of Africa has been the participation of women as human resources in the process of development. Limited educational/training opportunities have existed for women; necessary strategies identified were vocational education training programs evaluation, literacy programs review, study of girl school-leavers, and…

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…

Condensed from "The Kiwanis Magazine, Volume 53 (September 1968), 22-25, 42.

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…

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…

STUDENTS WHO DID NOT RETURN FOR A SECOND YEAR WERE CODED ACCORDING TO THE LENGTH OF TIME SPENT IN THE COLLEGE AND THEIR RECORDS CHECKED FOR THE NUMBER OF UNITS ATTEMPTED AND THE NUMBER OF UNITS AND GRADE POINTS EARNED. A 1-PAGE QUESTIONNAIRE WAS SENT TO 967 SUCH STUDENTS AND THE RESULTS FROM THE 222 REPLIES WERE ANALYZED. A SEPARATE CHECK WAS MADE…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE IN THE BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT THE DROPOUT RATE, DROPOUT CHARACTERISTICS, AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THE STUDENT AFTER HE DROPS OUT. THE DATA IS DESIGNED TO BE USED TO DETERMINE WAYS TO REDUCE THE DROPOUT RATE. THE BLOOMINGTON DROPOUT RATE IS HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL DROPOUT RATE BECAUSE GENERAL…

A RESEARCH PROJECT LOCATED AT PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, SOUTH DAKOTA, INVESTIGATED CULTURAL DISHARMONY, LACK OF MOTIVE AND APPEALING CURRICULA, AND PRESERVATION OF INTENSITY. STUDY SHOWED THAT DROP-OUTS AMONG SIOUX CHILDREN USUALLY OCCUR BECAUSE OF TROUBLES WITH OTHER INDIANS, NOT BECAUSE OF TEACHERS OR ADMINISTRATORS. PROBLEMS IN SIOUX EDUCATION…

SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF FARM AND NONFARM YOUTHS WERE ANALYZED. THE 1960 POPULATION CENSUS SUPPLIED THE DATA. A SUMMARY OF RESULTS FOLLOWS--(1) DROPOUT RATES FOR YOUTH 16 TO 17 AND 18 TO 19 YEARS OF AGE WERE LOWEST IN URBAN AREAS AND HIGHEST IN RURAL-NONFARM AREAS, (2) URBAN-RURAL DIFFERENCES IN ESTIMATED…