researchers to lump together, under the rubric of dropout, forms of leaving behavior that are very differ-ent in character. It is not uncommon to find, for instance, research on dropout that fails to distinguish dropout resulting from academic failure from that which is the outcome of voluntary withdrawal

situation in Egypt. Trey Miller provided helpful research assistance. We benefited from many useful

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The purpose of this study was to propose and test a motivational model of high school dropout. The model posits that teachers, parents, and the school administration's behaviors toward students influence students' perceptions of competence and autonomy. The less autonomy supportive

Research on dropping out of school has focused on characteristics of the individual or institution that correlate with the dropout decision. Many of these characteristics are nonmanipulable, and all are measured at one point in time, late in the youngster's school career. This paper describes

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little and will face financial insecurity in old age. The new 2004 wave of the Health and Retirement Study is invaluable for this first analysis of the financial situation of leading-edge Boomers, as it reports not only wealth levels but also information about respondents ’ planning behaviors

Over the past several decades, a large body of research has studied student outcomes in higher education. Among them, many examined the relationships between financial aid and student dropout behavior. But this line of research focuses primarily on the effects of financial aid in general, paying

In this paper, we explore student dropout behavior in Massive Open Online Cours-es(MOOC). We use as a case study a recent Coursera class from which we develop a survival model that allows us to measure the influence of factors extracted from that data on student dropout rate. Specifically we

• In 2006-07, 73.9 percent of the 2003-04 freshman class graduated from high school on time with a regular diploma (Aud et al., 2010). • The dropout rate for students with severe emotional and behavioral needs is approximately twice that of other students (Lehr, Johnson, Bremer, Cosio, &