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California Univ., Berkeley. Office of the Academic Vice President. – 1980
Student retention and transfer was studied at the University of California (UC) system as one aspect of undergraduate enrollment planning. A task group examined the following questions: (1) What is known about attrition? (2) When do students leave? (3) Who are the high-risk students? (4) Why do students leave? and (5) What is being done about it?…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Ancillary School Services, Articulation (Education), College Graduates
Lindholm, Michael; Jones, Roger C. – 1980
This study evaluated the effectiveness of school district participation in CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) youth programs in Box Elder and Cache Counties, Utah, as well as the overall effectiveness of CETA youth programs administered by the Bear River Association of Governments. For three years, the Bear River Association of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Employee Attitudes
Horton, Jim – 1980
In today's poor economic climate, there is an acute need to coalesce the fragments of research related to student attrition into a systematic program for increasing the chances of student success. Such a unifying program can be visualized on a continuum of retention strategies ranging from impersonal administrative actions to more complicated,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Administration, Community Colleges, Dropout Prevention
James, Sally E.; Brooks, Joseph T. – 1974
Most treaties negotiated with Indian tribes between 1778 and 1868 contain a clause insuring that the federal government will provide Indians with full educational opportunity in exchange for their ceded lands. This promise has not been fulfilled. Indian students are dropping out of Washington schools at rates estimated between 38-60 percent;…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Civil Rights, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education
GITIN, LOUIS L. – 1963
PART-TIME WORK EXPERIENCE AND MODIFICATION OF CURRICULUM WERE DESIGNED TO HELP PREVENT STUDENTS FROM DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL. CONCERN WAS FOCUSED ON THE SATISFACTORY PLACEMENT OF STUDENTS IN FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT SHOULD THEY LEAVE SCHOOL. THE PROGRAM WAS COORDINATED BY THE BUREAU OF GUIDANCE OF THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Action, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged
GITIN, LOUIS L. – 1964
PART-TIME WORK EXPERIENCE AND MODIFICATION OF CURRICULUM WERE DESIGNED TO HELP PREVENT STUDENTS FROM DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL. CONCERN WAS FOCUSED ON THE SATISFACTORY PLACEMENT OF STUDENTS IN FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT IF THEY SHOULD LEAVE SCHOOL. THE PROGRAM WAS COORDINATED BY THE BUREAU OF GUIDANCE OF THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Action, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged
Download full textDiaz, William; And Others – 1980
Through August, 1979, approximately 63,000 low-income youths in 17 areas across the country had been enrolled in Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects that guaranteed them a part-time job during the school year and a full-time job during summer months on the condition that they remain in, or return to, a secondary school or enroll in an…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Wetzel, Susan – 1977
In order to determine (1) characteristics of non-returning students, (2) reasons for attrition, and (3) student evaluation of Delaware County Community College (DCCC), questionnaires were mailed to all full and part-time students who attended the winter 1976 term but who did not register for the fall 1976 term. Drawn from 405 responses,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Michlein, Michael G. – 1977
Objectives of phase II of a study were (1) to run a pilot program to predict potential dropouts and assist them to overcome obstacles which might cause them to leave school and (2) to establish a system to immediately obtain needed information from dropouts. An instrument to identify potential dropouts was selected and students were divided into…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Vocational Education, Data Collection, Dropout Attitudes
CHAMBERLIN, GORDON L.; CATTERALL, CALVIN D. – 1963
A GROUP OF 25 OVERAGE UNDERACHIEVING PUPILS WHO HAD REPEATED A GRADE AT LEAST ONCE COMPLETED BOTH THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE DURING AN EXPERIMENTAL 1 YEAR PROGRAM. RESULTS FROM THE METROPOLITAN ACHIEVEMENT TESTS (MAT) ADMINISTERED IN FEBRUARY AND JUNE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL YEAR REVEALED INCREASED MOTIVATION AND ACHIEVEMENT IN ALL BASIC SUBJECTS.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age Grade Placement, Counselor Evaluation
THOMAS, GEORGE ISAIAH – 1966
THIS REPORT EXPLORES PLANS OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL ORGANIZATION BASED UPON THE LENGTHENING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR TO REDUCE BY ONE OR MORE YEARS THE TOTAL PERIOD OF SCHOOLING. PRACTICAL INFORMATION IS PRESENTED CONCERNING (1) THE CONTINUOUS SCHOOL YEAR PLAN, (2) THE TRIMESTER PLAN, (3) THE QUADRIMESTER PLAN, (4) THE MODIFIED SUMMER SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Costs, Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention, Educational Improvement
Tiedeman, David V.; Miller-Tiedeman, Anna – 1975
The first chapter of the literature review describes the Career Intern Program (CIP), a cooperative career education venture of the Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America and two Philadelphia high schools, which is composed of three steps: career awareness (general orientation, development, motivation); career exploration (academic…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Continuation Education, Counseling Services
Novachek, James – 1972
The Northern Arizona Hospitality Education Program is an exemplary three-year project designed to help students, mainly Indian, obtain job skills and attitudes necessary for successful employment in the hospitality industry. Nine high schools from Apache, Coconino, and Navajo Counties participated in the project. Objectives included providing an…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Opportunities, Class Activities
Jones, Hilda B. – 1973
The Diversified Satellite Occupations Program Career Development sought to prevent dropout through these strategies: registration at a school situation away from the normal school setting, creation of a close teacher-student relationship, and raise achievement levels and lower anxiety levels. Program emphases at elementary, junior and senior high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Attendance, Bilingual Students
Berkowitz, Louis, Ed.; And Others – 1971
This demonstration project in New York City undertook to help potential dropouts remain in school through the introduction of a program which combined after-school work experience with group and individual counseling. Concomitantly, it sought to develop an effective intervention methodology for replication in other communities. The principal…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attitude Change, Counseling Services, Demonstration Programs
