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Career Aspiration is an important part of human life as it means the vision for future. It is a long-term career goal, plan, and dream about the future. On the other hand, Self-Efficacy is an integral part of human life, and its importance is very prominent. The present study aims to give a detailed viewpoint regarding the career aspiration and self-efficacy among young adults who have faced a year(s) loss during their academic years. During the study, thorough information was collected from...
Topics: Career Aspiration, Self-Efficacy, Academic Failure, Early Adulthood
Deans of Instruction or Presidents of 94 junior colleges were asked what percentage of their faculty used a non-punitive A, B, C, W (withdraw) grading system, with no failing or F grade. The data shows a growing interest in such grading practices. There are three main arguments in favor of non-punitive grading: (1) an F grade is a double penalty, requiring better-than-average grades to counterbalance it; (2) fear of an F may impair the performance of anxiety-prone students; (3) A-F grading...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Grading, Two Year Colleges, Smith, Lawrence G.
An analysis of "F" and "I" grades given at Harcum Junior College during the last five academic years reveals a long-term trend of substantial stability. The average percentage of "F" grades given was 3.7 percent (range= 2.8-5 percent). The average percentage of "I" grades given was 2.1 percent (range= 1-3 percent). Past studies suggest that both student and faculty characteristics contribute to this five-year pattern of comparative similarities. For the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Grade Prediction, Grading, Private Colleges, Two Year Colleges
Schools are to prepare students for success. However, they often villainize failure. Instead, schools should teach students how to fail fast and safely in order to learn and to allow innovation through vulnerability. The lessons that the gaming culture has for learning will define future strategies of teaching and learning. Games are sometimes called well-designed work. As a result, people flock to them. The secret of engagement in games can be adopted in academia as soon as courses become...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Games, Academic Failure, Empathy, Educational Innovation, Teacher Student...
This mini-study evaluated efforts by the School of Health and Human Services Advisement Center at California State University, Los Angeles to reach and support students on probation or were disqualified. Workshops were held to educate students on campus policies and procedures, time and stress management skills, and factors that either contribute to or impede academic progress. A survey of participants (83 percent of those contacted) clearly demonstrated the desire of such students to receive...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Academic Probation, College Students, Higher Education, Program...
Too many students are falling through the cracks of our educational system and dropping out of school. A program called Extended-Day School (EDS) was implemented in Franklin County, Tennessee, to help high school students with specific subjects. EDS sought to deal with several problems of at-risk students: fewer study aids, little parent involvement, incomplete homework, and low test scores and grades. In the EDS program students who were failing a subject were given a temporary incomplete...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Extended School Day, High Risk...
This report examines the effects of increasing retention standards on the percentage of students on student academic probation, suspension, persistence, and graduation rates for students in the Oklahoma State System of higher education. The State Regents adopted higher student retention standards between 1991 and 1993. The standards increased gradually by reducing the number of total credit hours attempted at a designated grade point average level. Student records showed that the number of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Academic Probation, Expulsion, Higher Education, School Holding...
Glasser builds his alternative, a "School Without Failure," on an analysis of what children need to achieve a successful identity and on an examination of the ways in which schools affect children to teach them failure. The author discusses the Glasser approach and describes an attempt to implement the approach in a Palo Alto elementary school. The author observes that, after four years of operating on the Glasser plan, the school staff is noticeably committed to creating a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Educational Change, Elementary Schools, Grading, Humanization,...
This research studied those factors that impact the failure of boys in American schools. Multiple areas were explored. Among the broadly investigated area were: physiological, social and cognitive. Attributing to the failure of boys included brain structure, cultural standards, teaching practices, economics, environmental factors, and familial expectations. Included among the list of negative factors attributed to the failure of boys were: poor academic performance, behavioral penalties,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Males, Academic Failure, Cognitive Ability, Physiology, Sociology, African Americans,...
A psychiatrist discusses ways to help children who are failing in school, the reasons behind their failure and the self perpetuating nature of failure. Teacher attitudes, the grading system, and the educational process itself are listed as three areas requiring change if failing students are to be helped. (CK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Childhood Attitudes, Educational Change, Grading, Psychiatrists,...
The major purpose of the present study was to answer a series of related questions concerning college dropouts: What is the current dropout rate nationally among students attending colleges in the United States? How do dropout rates vary by type of institution? In what ways do dropouts and nondropouts differ? What factors in the college environment affect the student's chances of dropping out? How much difference does the student's ability make? How important are background factors such as sex,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, College Students, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Higher...
Student retention has been a divisive educational question since the turn of the century. And although early educators found that retention was not particularly effective, they continued using it because their options were limited. Today, educators have many options to retention. Using the database from Project STAR, a study explored the common demographic characteristics and school types of retained kindergartners and first graders. Also, the study examined the effect of class size on the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Class Size, Grade Repetition, Primary Education, Program...
This edition of "Policy Issues" addresses teacher recruitment and retention policies in play across the country. It starts by proposing a generally accepted definition of at-risk schools and making a case for why it is so important to improve teacher quality in these schools. It then takes the reader through (1) an examination of states' recruitment and retention policies and the extent to which these policies specifically target at-risk schools; (2) an assessment of the rigor of some...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Failure, Teacher Persistence,...
This paper examines the needs of the failure-oriented junior college student, presents the learning resources center as a major tool in junior college instruction, and develops a systems approach to the design of a comprehensive learning resources center. Since junior colleges accept a full range of students, including many of low ability, conventional teaching methods are not adequate. Teaching the junior college student requires special attention to motivation, guidance, basic skills,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Learning Resources Centers, Low Ability Students, Two Year...
Children exposed to violence are at higher risk of behavior problems and academic failure, as well as chronic delinquency and adult criminal behavior. This bulletin provides information about resources that are available to help improve the system's response to child victims and witnesses of violence. Information is provided about 14 private agencies and organizations that offer technical assistance and training for those working with children exposed to violence. Information is also given...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Behavior Problems, Children, Crime, Public Agencies, Resources,...
Parents are often worried when their child has learning problems in school. There are many reasons for school failure, but a common one is a specific learning disability. Children with learning disabilities can have intelligence in the normal range but the specific learning disability may make teachers and parents concerned about their general intelligence. Often, these children may try very hard to follow instructions, concentrate, and "be good" at home and in school. Yet, despite...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities, Children, Academic Failure, Student Needs,...
In addition to personal and social consequences, school failure among Member States of the European Community is a major economic liability. Member States have used a variety of measures to counter school failure. It is generally agreed that socioeconomic, cultural, and personal factors all contribute to school failure. Indicators of school failure include internal measures, such as repetition of grade levels, examination results, and dropping out, as well as external measures, such as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy,...
In a one try at success condition, prisoners high in an Achievement-low in test anxiety (HL) performed significantly better than those low in n Achievement-high in test anxiety (LH) in a noncontingent but not a contingent path. These results are consistent with previous findings involving prisoners and at variance with results derived from students. Under the two tries at success condition, HL's performed significantly better than LH's in a contingent but not a noncontingent path and hence are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Failure, Motivation, Performance Factors,...
South Africa has a huge shortage of skilled workers in various fields such as engineering, applied sciences, accountancy, architecture, medicine and law. Mathematics is a requirement for entry in these careers to enable learners to grasp the content of various subjects in these disciplines. Despite that, in South Africa, learners' performance in mathematics is shocking. This article highlights the high failure rate of mathematics in a South African context. It suggests possible causes of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Failure, Mathematics...
The purpose of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA, is to ensure that all children with disabilities have access to an appropriate public education. However, schools may be barring that access for many children with mental and emotional disorders by using inadequate assessment rules. Children who fail to qualify under the IDEA will not receive the services and supports that would enable them to benefit from their education. The resulting school failure makes it nearly...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Children, Disabilities, Early Identification, Emotional...
This factsheet considers dropping out of school from the dropout's point of view: reasons for dropping out, life after leaving school, and the dropouts' own evaluation of their decision to leave school. It identifies a dislike of school, low academic achievement, and a desire to work as key reasons for dropping out. Thirteen resource documents are listed. (NB)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Adolescents, Dropout Attitudes, Dropouts, Employment Opportunities,...
This paper looks at an idea that the fundamental "social" purpose of college composition is not to expand but to contract students' capacities to function in and transform their world. The paper manifests interest in this conception of composition for intellectual, historical, and political reasons--historically, it addresses the contrast between this moment and the post-World War II era in composition when it was often accepted that not only was freshman composition a social sorting...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Cultural Context, Educational Objectives, Freshman Composition,...
A review of the literature in 1965 revealed considerable research into the respective merits of policies of (1) automatic promotion for all pupils, and (2) rigid retention-in-grade for those whose achievement was judged deficient. Although neither extreme was a panacea, promotion appeared to have fewer disadvantages than retention. Pupils who repeated one or more grades tended to become discouraged by their conspicuous failure and to be no better off at the end of their schooling than if they...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Academic Standards, Grade Repetition,...
The Austin Independent School District (AISD) is now in its third year of study on the effects of a new retention policy adopted in 1981-82. Reviewing the results of the first two years led to the conclusion that traditional methods of studying retention might not be the most appropriate. These evaluations have primarily focused on the impact of the policy change on retention rates and retainee achievement, attitudes toward retention, and the success of various interventions in helping...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation...
Factors to consider when studying attrition are: (1) the academic reasons students drop out or are suspended; (2) the institutional definitions of attrition; and (3) the procedures used to monitor the successes or failures of students. A recent University of Texas study of literacy developed at the community college included a mini-study of attrition, probation, and literacy. The major findings of this mini-study are that students on scholastic probation make an inordinate number of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Academic Probation, Community Colleges, Correlation, Educational...
Good school attendance has been directly linked to academic achievement, greater participation in school programs, and graduation from high school. Reports investigating poor elementary school attendance habits describe the emergence of later problems in middle and high school years. Schools and Families: Allies for Attendance, a 2-year project, was undertaken to improve attendance among elementary school children. The project was an early identification program designed to prevent the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Delinquency, Elementary Education,...
A high school teacher recounts his own literacy journey from a young child with an auditory perception problem, to a school-hating student, to a semi-literate Marine in Viet Nam, to a teacher of persons with disabilities. He notes that his literacy journey during the early years was characterized by immaturity, avoidance, and self doubt. He grew up in a family where reading and writing were not valued enough to be modeled and actively promoted. He did poorly in all school subjects and did not...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Literacy,...
This paper describes some programs that provide support for college students at risk of academic failure students, and offers an approach for a model academic probation program. In general, the literature identifies two types of program based on the type of student participation: mandatory or voluntary. Intrusive programs, in which student participation is required, develop from the conclusion that students who are failing need help they frequently will not seek out on their own or accept when...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Academic Probation, College Students, High Risk Students, Higher...
For students in most high schools, graduation is predicated on the successful completion of a specified number of courses or credits. In most cases when these students fail they are not retained in grade but become credit deficient. This report is concerned with a longitudinal study of loss of credit among high school students in the St. Paul (Minnesota) Public School District. For each course failed data were recorded on the following items: (1) student's demographic profile; (2) student's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Attendance, Credits, Graduation Requirements, High Risk Students,...
This pamphlet briefly reports on an experimental program designed to help the underachieving student whose academic and behavioral problems keep him in trouble with school officials. The project is based on the following premises: (1) children who learn basic academic skills and appropriate behaviors will be less vulnerable to future problems; (2) some children are not motivated by the usual rewards found in the school system; and (3) these children can be motivated through utilization of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Motivation Techniques, Parent...
An index and procedure were sought which would enable university officials to establish the probable academic success of each student seeking readmission after academic dismissal. A 2.20 critical GPA index and procedure for readmitting students was empirically derived from the performance of 1,460 readmitted students. The critical index technique was found to be a valuable research procedure which could be used to reflect past policy and guide current decisions. The technique is independent of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, College Admission, College Students, Colleges, Disqualification,...
Retention of students began soon after the introduction of graded elementary schools in the mid-1800s. As early as 1911, research started to show that retention failed to remedy the difficulties of academic achievement and social adjustment exposed through graded schools. Educators today have a number of options other than retention designed to help students who are not meeting grade-level standards. One of those options is enrolling students in smaller classes. Using the Project STAR database,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Class Size, Grade Repetition, Primary...
This study examined the reactions and feelings of students and their parents in regard to the nonpromotion experience. Families from four different school districts with children who had been retained at least once in grades one through eight were selected for the study. A total of 52 individuals from 22 families participated in 46 separate, qualitative interviews. It was found that the retention philosophy of the individuals participating in the study was built around two main issues: (1) if...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade Repetition,...
This author argues that college and university education in North America is in trouble. Education surpasses health, war, and the economy as the most important issue for the future. It does not get the attention it deserves because its effects are long term and people have short attention spans. In this article, the author explains why so many students fail or drop out of high school, college, and university in North America. He shares some causes of student attrition and describes what...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attention Span, Student Attrition, Dropouts, College Students, Higher Education,...
This article is based on a survey of educational diagnosticians working in Texas for the 2001-02 school year. The Executive Board of the Texas Educational Diagnosticians' Association (TEDA) developed the comprehensive survey that contained over 50 items. Only three items were related specifically to the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) test. The general purpose of the survey was to assist the TEDA leadership in developing a legislative agenda. A total of 3,210 surveys were mailed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Referral, Special Education, High Stakes Tests, Low Achievement, State Surveys,...
This report examined the academic review processes at the three Department of Defense service academies, describing how the academies use these processes to review cases of students who have not met academic performance standards. Based on interviews with academy officials and relevant documents, it outlines the review processes in place at the Military Academy, Naval Academy, and Air Force Academy to evaluate cases of academically deficient students and prescribe dispositions for each case....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Expulsion, Higher Education, Military...
This report provides information on the number and percentage of students retained in grade during the 1982-83 school term in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Data were analyzed from reports filed by all principals and from the LAUSD Racial and Ethnic Survey, Fall 1982. Children's centers, adult schools, occupational centers, and development centers for the handicapped were not included. Results are reported by sex, grade, and ethnicity. The following major findings are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Repetition,...
Cuyahoga Community College (Ohio) conducted this statistical study of community-junior colleges' academic policy concerning the elimination of academic dismissal and failing grades. To obtain data, a sample of 100 institutions was selected from the 698 regionally accredited junior colleges. Percentage representation in the sample was based on the number of accredited junior colleges in a state compared with the number of all states. Larger institutions were purposely over-represented...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Administrative Policy, Expulsion, School Policy, Statistical...
Thirty-six students at a continuation high school were identified as predelinquents and selected as subjects on the basis of their poor attendance and academic records. Pretreatment and posttreatment data were collected on the following variables: attendance figures and academic credits. Following preliminary assessment, the subjects were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: treatment by a behaviorally trained counselor, treatment by a generically trained counselor, or no treatment....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Attendance Patterns, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems,...
This study investigated the nature of affective reactions of college students in a real-life testing situation, and the relationship of these affects to causal attributions and perceptions of success or failure. Ninety students responded to questions concerning their emotions after receiving results of an examination and indicated the contribution of four causal factors (effort, ability, task difficulty, and luck) as reasons for their success or failure. Principal component analyses of 14...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Affective Behavior, Attitude Measures,...
Each year large numbers of children experience academic failure during the first 3 years of their public school involvement. Many studies have been done using demographic and norm-referenced tests to try to identify at-risk-for-failure youngsters either at the preschool level or early during their school experience. Most attempts have been costly and of limited success. This study examined the concurrent and predictive validity of performance on a test measuring the information processing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, High Risk Students,...
This paper develops two models of the effects of social class on educational attainment. A large body of research has documented the positive relationship between social class and educational attainment. However, research has shown that there is no relationship between graduation from the first college attended and social class. Data to test these arguments is based on interviews with 1,665 freshmen at a sample of 99 American colleges. In the first model, academic achievement is viewed as an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Aspiration, College Choice, College Students,...
This paper presents the results of a series of surveys designed to determine the attitudes of parents of school-aged children and other adults toward schools and their children's future, with a view toward offering encouragement to beginning teachers. Cross sections of the population were sampled nationwide, throughout the state of Illinois, and in the metropolitan Chicago area in three separate surveys. Results indicate that most parents identify schools as the most important factor in helping...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Community Surveys, National Surveys, Parent Attitudes, Public...
Current and projected manpower shortages within the field of mental health suggest a greater role for paraprofessionals. But, without careful evaluation and precise training, added manpower will not solve any of the problems facing psychology in overcoming the limits to the delivery of services. These two papers review several attempts to evaluate the effects of an existing paraprofessional training package on several specific behaviors of the volunteers. The initial training procedure was used...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Behavior Problems, Counselor Training, Elementary Education,...
This report provides information on the number and percentage of students retained in grade during the 1983-84 school term in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Data were analyzed from reports filed by all principals and from the LAUSD Racial and Ethnic Survey, Fall 1983. Children's centers, adult schools, occupational centers, and development centers for the handicapped were not included. Results are reported by sex, grade level, and ethnicity. The following major findings are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Repetition,...
At Columbia College, a 2-year college in California, an Early Alert program was implemented in the middle 1980s to alert students at risk of academic failure to potential problems. With the exception of a few years in the 1990s, the program has been conducted each semester. In the fourth week of the semester, instructors are asked to identify students experiencing academic difficulties, and these students are then sent a form letter of notification and recommendations for action. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, College Students, High Risk Students, Higher Education, Program...
This study targeted students with a history of academic failure to investigate the relationships among reported self-regulated learning strategies, attributional patterns, academic performance expectancies, and academic performance. Ninety-seven community college students, over 70% of whom were minority group members, completed self-report instruments measuring cognitive-motivational processes and academic performance. Students reported using many self-regulated learning strategies and had...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes,...
The Chapter 2 Formula provides federal funds to states through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). These funds are used to help students at risk of academic failure or dropping out, support purchases and programs, and develop teachers' professional skills. In 1992-93, the Austin Independent School District (AISD) received $511,123 in Chapter 2 Formula funds for 13 programs and expenditures. Evaluation of the programs found that the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Alcohol Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention, Drug...
One of Matt Groening's popular cartoons offers two different perspectives regarding the purpose and value of formal education in America: "Bongo's" belief that a good education must consist of an engaging classroom environment and proper emotional, intellectual, and structural resources; and "Bongo's" father's belief that a good education is a completed education. The way in which these two characters engage in discussions of education is not all that different from the ways...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Communication Research, Educational Change,...
This paper presents an innovative teaching technique, the utilization of a popular sitcom to teach an introductory economics course. Using clips from the television show "Seinfeld," instructors can present the oft-perceived difficult, yet basic, economic concepts in an amenable manner, which also enables the achieving of higher levels of learning as per Bloom's taxonomy. Many higher education institutions require an economics course as part of the general education curriculum. These...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classification, Introductory Courses, Economics Education, Television, Programming...
