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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. – 1963
PARENTS ARE TOLD THAT HIGHER HORIZONS WILL HELP DEVELOP THE CAPACITIES OF EVERY CHILD, INCREASE HIS SELF CONFIDENCE, AND HELP HIM COMPLETE HIGH SCHOOL. RESULTS OF TESTS AND INTERVIEWS TO DISCOVER A CHILD'S ABILITIES, INTERESTS, AND NEEDS ARE DISCUSSED IN PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES. INSTRUCTION IS AIMED AT DEVELOPING ABILITIES. THE CHILD IS…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Community Resources, Dropout Prevention, Habit Formation
Download full textLenning, Oscar, T.; And Others – 1980
This document was developed to (1) help clarify the various concepts of retention and attrition within a unifying conceptual framework, (2) synthesize the research on retention and attrition, and (3) examine the implications of the research for postsecondary administrators and researchers. Retention and attrition research pertains to both the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Administrator Role, Definitions, Dropout Prevention
Patterson, John – 1979
Project Succeed is a program for helping failure- and dropout-oriented pupils to improve their school achievement. Attendance and assignment completion are the key behaviors for enhancing achievement. Behavior modification and communications procedures are used to bring about the desired changes. Treatment procedures include current assessment…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems
Bannerman, James W. – 1979
Reasons why students withdrew from Southern Technical Institute were examined through a survey of 721 dropouts. A total of 257 responses were received and the reasons given by the students were classified as societal or nonsocietal. In this study, societal factors are defined as those elements of influence that are external to the institution. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Korovlev, Regeena; And Others – 1977
The Teenage Parent Program in the Alexandria City Public Schools was improved in the areas of: increased attendance of pregnant teenagers and adolescent mothers; increased numbers of students earning credit for participation; utilization of a variety of instructional methods by interagency instructors; increased student comprehension of course…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Attendance, Counseling Services, Dropout Prevention
Aarons, Howell – 1975
In order to assess the effects of the remedial (foundations) program at Mohegan Community College (Connecticut) on students' academic performance and persistence in college, a study was made of 180 students who had enrolled in the Foundations Program between September 1971 and 1974, and 180 students who had scored below the 50th percentile on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Dropout Prevention, Grades (Scholastic)
Belzer, Thomas J. – 1974
This study correlates the relationship between varying methods in student evaluation and its effect on student achievement and attrition. The sample studied consisted of 230 students enrolled in three separate semesters of General Biology 11A at Pasadena City College in 1972, 1973, and 1974. The earlier students were given longer exams over three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, College Science, Dropout Prevention
Scott, Louise T. – 1970
The question of what secondary school can do to cope with the large number of poor readers, the high relationship between dropouts and reading abilities, the widely varying abilities within the classrooms, and the increasing lack of interest in reading among young people is discussed. A secondary language arts program for nonacademic students that…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Language Arts, Low Ability Students, Reading Ability
Campbell, Robert A. – 1968
To prepare vocational-technical teachers to work with dropout-prone youths in laboratories within the school and to discover how successful a special vocational-technical program would be in assisting those students with special needs, 24 dropout-prone occupational exploration students were chosen to participate in a 6-week summer experimental…
Descriptors: Blacks, Dropout Prevention, Experimental Curriculum, Experimental Programs
Tripathi, Virenda – 1970
This guide provides an overview and practical suggestions for the literacy administrator and worker. Chapters deal with: an overview of the problem of illiteracy; adult learner characteristics; methods of teaching languages to illiterate adults; the organization, administration, and supervision of literacy classes; patterns of adult education;…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies
Hocking, Elton – Foreign Language Beacon, 1967
Attention is focused on (1) the chronic failure to attract a larger percentage of the student population, especially male students, and (2) the perennially high rate of attrition in intermediate and advanced language courses in secondary schools. The merits of offering the teaching of contemporary foreign culture as an alternative to the…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Enrollment Influences
McClelland, David C. – 1968
This pilot project sought to determine if instruction in achievement motivation would help potential dropouts to complete their schooling. Subjects were tenth grade students in a suburban Boston high school. A one-week residential course during winter and spring vacations was taken by one group of six boys and a second group of four. Equated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Course Content, Dropout Attitudes
Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. – 1968
The study, which compares a group of high school dropouts to a group of lowest quintile graduates, shows similarity in most areas of comparison regarding academic ability, character traits and family background. Findings show that the decision to drop out is based on a complex network of reasons with the problem of poor attendance most often cited…
Descriptors: Curriculum Problems, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Saint Cloud Board of Education, Minn. – 1968
Evaluations of 2 experimental programs developed by the St. Cloud, Minnesota, school system with funds from Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act are given in this report. Section 1 describes the Junior High Development Center, a program designed to help students who had very low basic education skills and showed signs of becoming…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Compensatory Education, Dropout Prevention
Langley, Janis; And Others – 1973
Project Keeping All Pupils in School (KAPS) is a dropout prevention program designed by officials in the Baltimore City Public Schools, supported by Federal funds under the provision of Title VIII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act (PL90-427). The KAPS Program consists of six components. They include: Daily Program, Service to Aid…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
