ERIC Number: EJ1120928
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Publication Date: 2016-Feb
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The Specific of Scholar Dropout in Students' Opinion
Blândul, Valentin Cosmin; Bradea, Adela
Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, v11 n1 p20-26 Feb 2016
In the present days, education has a crucial role for development of contemporary society, because, in this way, it can perpetuate itself and can transmit, from a generation to the next one, the accumulated experience about humanity and reality. Considerate as a "Key-factor" for progress, the educational process from learning institutions can provide well-prepared labour work for all domains of activity and stimulate the intellectual curiosity, adapted capacity, creativity and innovation as well. Unfortunately, not every pupil (and their family) could understand the importance of formal education for their personal/professional development and for the progress of society. But from personal, social or economical reasons, many pupils prefer to leave the school before to graduate it with diploma. In the present study, we intend to analyze the pupils' attitude regarding to formal education in connection with teaching/learning activity, inter-personal relationship with colleagues or professors, so on and also, we try to identify some solutions for helping pupils to remain in school until they graduate with diploma. The sample was composed by 500 pupils who study in secondary level from 5 schools from Bihor county, Romania. The instrument was represented by a questionnaire composed from 37 items and the period of research was during the present academic year (2011/2012). The results of our study prove that, if pupils would be more involved in taking decision at their school level, or in didactic process and if they get any economic support, are increasing the chance for them to stay in educational system and be able to invest personal effort and material resources in their life development.
Descriptors: Dropouts, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Dropout Rate, Conventional Instruction, Teacher Effectiveness, Preadolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Teacher Student Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship, Statistical Analysis, Secondary School Students
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