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A study of dropout characteristics and school-level effects on dropout prevention
… to examine the characteristics of student dropouts and the characteristics of schools successful and unsuccessful in mediating dropouts. Narrative profiles were created to describe types of students and types of dropouts. Phase I consisted of three parts, each using the student as the unit …
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Dropout Prone and Non-Dropout Prone High School Boys: A Study of Differences
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Time-based low dropout regulator
The low dropout regulator (LDO) is an essential building block for modern integrated circuits. Traditional analog design faces formidable challenges as technology scales down, such as lower supply voltage and channel length modulation. Digital LDOs do not have the problems that analog LDOs have, …
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Middle School Student Records as Dropout Indicators
… and the extraordinarily high United States dropout rate has brought the issue to the forefront of American education.</p> <p>This study investigated normally collected middle school data from a suburban Colorado school district to determine the predictive value toward students dropping out …
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Predicting student dropout in a MicroMasters program
… popularity and benefits of such programs, the dropout rate is surprisingly high. The purpose of this thesis is to build accurate predictive models of student dropout in MOOC-based programs as well as identify which factors are correlated with dropout. For this study, we focused in a MOOC-based …
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Analysis on Supercapacitor Assisted Low Dropout (SCALDO) Regulators
… complex situation in switch-mode converters, low dropout (LDO) regulators were introduced to address the equirements of noise-sensitive and fast transient loads in portable devices. A typical commercial off-the-shelf LDO has its input voltage slightly higher than the desired regulated output for …
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Adolescent Patient Treatment Dropout
… for the study. Results demonstrated a 31.9% dropout rate. Graduates indicated greater improvement of overall distress from baseline to post-treatment than dropouts. Dropouts attended an average of 12 treatment sessions. Several factors were examined to identify potential predictors of patient …
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“Dropouts” Drop In: Re-Visualizing the “Dropout” Stereotype
<p><em>“Dropouts” Drop In</em> aims to challenge conventional views of both “dropping out” and “dropouts.” When young people “drop out” of high school, they open themselves up to a world of negative assumptions and blame, which are directed at them from the outside and are also deeply internalized. …
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Administrative Practices and Dropout Rates of Handicapped Youth
Historically, handicapped persons in our society have been systematically denied significant social, economic, and educational opportunities and benefits. Discriminatory and prejudicial attitudes have become part of our institutional fabric through legislative mandate, judicial action, and common …
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High School Dropout Experiences: A Social Capital Perspective
… framework. Discussing the stories of high school dropouts provided valuable information related to the root causes of dropout behaviors in a social capital context. This information can be used to develop programs designed to increase social capital in schools, families, and communities, which can …
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Learning with Single View Co-training and Marginalized Dropout
… second strategy marginalized dropout leads to <italic> marginalized Stacked Denoising Autoencoders</italic>: mSDA), <italic>Marginalized Corrupted Features</italic>: MCF) and <italic>FastTag</italic>: FastTag). mSDA diminishes the difference between distributions associated …
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Use of Multi-Informants in Predicting Adolescent Treatment Dropout
<p>High rates of dropout are common among adolescents in therapy making efforts to reduce adolescent psychopathology and behavioral problems challenging. The present study examined archival data from multiple informants who enrolled in a 16-week intensive outpatient treatment program for …
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Early School Leaving: A Narrative Inquiry of the School Dropout
… areas to be monitored are graduation and or dropout rates. While these have become a part of the major focus of those monitoring the effectiveness of schools across the country, it seems that little has been done to investigate what may be contributing to the phenomenon.;Thus far, most …
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An Insider's Perspective: The Dropout Challenge for Canada's First Nations
This modified case study honors the voices of 21 Cree participants, including nine students, six parents, four community leaders and two Elders. This study, written from an insider's perspective, identified more than 50 reasons why First Nations students dropped out of three provincial high schools …
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Exploring the Impact of Student Engagement on Dropout Warning Signs
… This study explored predictive factors of dropout warning signs in 4th, 6th, 8th, 9th, and 11th grades including 15,838 students to answer the following research questions: 1) Does student engagement predict the number of dropout warning signs a student exhibits? 2) Do any subconstructs of …
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Three essays on family structure and school dropout among adolescents
… is a collection of three essays on high school dropout by adolescents and the roll of their siblings in this risky behavior. Dropping out of high school can scar the individual for his entire labor supply period with lower earnings, higher unemployment, and in turn incur considerable social and …
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Students' Perceptions of the Preparatory Academy, A Dropout Prevention Program
… to improve academic achievement and reduce the dropout rate of at-risk high school students in a mid-Atlantic state. The study looks at the Preparatory Academy as a dropout prevention program for high school students. Students attending the Preparatory Academy are one or more years behind grade …
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An Examination of Dropout in the Online, Computer-conferenced Classroom
… Index (GOI), related to persistence and dropout in an online, computer-conferenced class? b) Is there a relationship between other selected variables (Demographic, Personal, Institutional, and Participative) and student persistence or dropout in the online, computer-conferenced …
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Factors influencing dropout in selected secondary schools in Kabwe district, Zambia.
… was to establish the causes of learner school dropouts in selected secondary schools in Kabwe. It was noticed that despite the effort of the government of Zambia putting up drastic measures to mitigate the issue of drop out, the learner have continued dropping out. In order to address the …
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