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Direct linkBaars, Gerard J. A.; Schmidt, Henk G.; Hermus, Peter; van der Molen, Henk T.; Arnold, Ivo J. M.; Smeets, Guus – European Journal of Higher Education, 2023
In higher education, many students do not complete their studies within the term allotted. A Dutch university implemented an intervention aimed to reduce this form of academic procrastination. The intervention consisted of three measures: (1) requiring students to acquire all first-year credits within their first year in university, (2) reducing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Time Management, Time to Degree
Carol A. Mullen; Robert J. Nitowski – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2024
Dropout is a global crisis and an affliction in the United States. This study analyzes graduation rates based on prior academic achievement, attendance, and behavior at an urban American high school in Virginia over 4 years to identify who is (not) graduating and why. Using a correlational, nonexperimental design, four cohorts of graduates were…
Descriptors: Dropouts, High School Students, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement
Download full textGuam Department of Education, 2024
The Guam Department of Education ("GDOE") presents this report in compliance with Guam Public Law ("P.L.") 26-26 that specifically requires the Department to report on the following information in the Annual State of Public Education Report ("ASPER"): (1) Demographic information on public school children in the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Trends, Public Schools, School Demography
Vooren, Melvin; Haelermans, Carla; Groot, Wim; van den Brink, Henriette Maassen – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: In this paper, we investigate the predictors for enrollment and success in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs in higher education. We develop a sequential logit model in which students enroll in STEM education, may drop out from STEM higher education, or continue studying until they graduate in an STEM…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Gender Differences, College Students
Texas Education Agency, 2021
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
Geni S. Perryment – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study aimed to identify factors of success and attrition within military students in doctoral programs. It also sought to examine performance in clinical doctoral-level programs to determine significant differences in outcome measures between military and nonmilitary. This study utilized archival data from five clinical psychology doctoral…
Descriptors: Military Service, Veterans Education, Doctoral Students, Clinical Psychology
Texas Education Agency, 2023
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
Utah State Board of Education, 2020
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires the state to calculate a four-year cohort rate. Utah implemented the federally defined cohort graduation rate in 2008. The graduation rate for the 2019 cohort includes all students who started ninth grade in the 2013-14 school year, plus students who transferred into the Utah public education system…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, High School Graduates, Dropout Rate, Student Characteristics
Texas Education Agency, 2022
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
Guam Department of Education, 2022
The Guam Department of Education ("GDOE") presents this report in compliance with Guam Public Law ("P.L.") 26-26 that specifically requires the Department to report on the following information in the Annual State of Public Education Report ("ASPER"): (1) Demographic information on public school children in the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Graduation Rate
McFarland, Joel; Cui, Jiashan; Holmes, Juliet; Wang, Xiaolei – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
The report draws on a wide array of surveys and administrative datasets to present statistics on high school dropout and completion rates at the state and national levels. The report includes estimates of the percentage of students who drop out in a given 12-month period (event dropout rates), the percentage of young people in a specified age…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate, High School Students
Gao, Niu – Public Policy Institute of California, 2021
This is the technical appendix for the report, "Does Raising High School Graduation Requirements Improve Student Outcomes?" While high school graduation rates in California have increased in the past decade, nearly 40 percent of California high school graduates do not enroll in college; the disruptive impact of the pandemic has…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Graduation Requirements, Enrollment
Adams, Caralee J.; Sparks, Sarah D. – Education Week, 2013
America's high school graduation rate has notably improved, according to figures released last week by the National Center for Education Statistics. The "averaged freshman graduation rate" rose to 78.2 percent of public school students receiving a diploma in 2010, up from 75.5 percent the year before. In 2006, the rate was 73.4 percent, and in…
Descriptors: Graduation, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate, Gender Differences
Texas Education Agency, 2020
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Student Attrition
Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2021
This year's study is the 35th in a series of annual reports on trends in dropout and attrition rates in Texas public schools. The 2019-20 study builds on a series of studies by the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) that track the number and percent of students in Texas who are lost from public school enrollment prior to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Student Attrition, Dropout Rate, Educational Trends
