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Maximizing Indigenous Student Learning in the Mainstream with Language and Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper, we explore the importance of being conscious of the needs of indigenous students within the education system in order to increase their learning process and decrease their dropout rates. Specifically, we discuss how Mayan language, culture,
Jaimes-Domínguez, J. Luis   +1 more
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Professional strategies in upper secondary school dropout management among youth in the Sami areas of Norway: a focus group study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2023
The upper secondary school dropout rate is a challenge in many western countries, and measures have been taken to prevent dropout. The dropout rate in Norway is stable but is the highest in the northernmost counties.
Tone Aashild Dinesen   +2 more
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High school dropouts

open access: yesSapienza: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021
Many school administrators in the Department of Education faced a big problem in the form of student dropouts. The aim of the study was to look at the demographic data and reasons for student dropouts in the school year 2018–2019, as well as establish an intervention program to help students avoid dropping out.
Amoroso , Nestor R.   +2 more
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Performing Learning Analytics via Generalised Mixed-Effects Trees

open access: yesData, 2021
Nowadays, the importance of educational data mining and learning analytics in higher education institutions is being recognised. The analysis of university careers and of student dropout prediction is one of the most studied topics in the area of ...
Luca Fontana   +3 more
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Factors predicting dropout in student nursing assistants [PDF]

open access: yesOccupational Medicine, 2008
The dropout rate among student nursing assistants (NAs) in Danish health and social care education is high at >20%.To explore if recent low back pain (LBP) history is a predictor of dropout among NA students, taking into account conventional risk factors for LBP, general health and physical fitness.Prospective study with 14-month follow-up (the ...
Svensson, Annemarie Lyng   +3 more
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Dropout intent of students with disabilities

open access: yesHigher Education, 2023
AbstractWe examine the mechanisms explaining the dropout intentions of students with disabilities by integrating Tinto’s model of student integration, the student attrition model, the composite persistence model, and insights from social stratification research.
Mareike Rußmann   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Dropout risks of medical students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Abstract Background The moderation of student dropout is an important aim in the medical training that requires significant resources from individual and national economy points of view. Hungarian medical training has high quality and strong international attraction, although students are exposed to significant stress in the extremely selective
Gabriella Pusztai   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Tensions Between Student Dropout and Flexibility in Learning Design: The Voices of Professors in Open Online Higher Education

open access: yesInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
Flexibility is typical of open universities and their e-learning designs. While this constitutes their main attraction, promising learners will be able to study “anytime, anyplace,” this also demands more self-regulation and engagement, a cause for ...
Marlon Xavier, Julio Meneses
doaj   +1 more source

Dropout stories of Andalusian university students

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2023
The abandonment of university studies is a problem that affects the balance and correct organization of university systems throughout the world and that has undesirable personal consequences in advanced societies. Dropping out of school has a multidimensional explanation.
Gijón Puerta, José   +3 more
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Trajectories preceding student dropout

open access: yes, 2019
In this chapter we use a process approach to better understand dropout from higher education. In our approach we combine theory on student attrition with theory on micro-level identity development, and study trajectories of exploration and commitment in an intensive longitudinal study spanning several months.
Mandy A.E. van der Gaag   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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