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Engagement
SES
Culture and gender
Global
Dropping Out
100
Over 10,000, with a further 6000 within 12 months of transferring to TAFE.
How many students are dropping out of Victorian high schools?
100
The social position of a family or individual, relative to others, based on income, occupation and education.
What is Socioeconomic Status (SES)?
100
Females
Which gender has the highest graduation rate
100
74%
What is Australia's high school graduation rate?
100
The act of leaving school before graduation.
What is dropping out?
200
The middle years (9th/10th grade).
When does disengagement peak in secondary school students?
200
A major attribute crucial in determining educational achievement.
What is Peer-group influence?
200
This group of students are 8% less likely to finish high school
What are non-english speak students
200
Portugal
What country has the highest retention rate?
200
This type is due to family circumstances or things like pregnancy (culture/marriage/housekeeping) or needing to work to help the family with finances.
What is Pulled out?
300
The values and patterns of behaviour, including language use, that are often not formally taught, but are integral parts of the education system.
What is the hidden curriculum?
300
The type of work that has a constant negative effect on minorities likely hood of dropping out
What is intensive employment?
300
This is found to be 'key' in whether students stay on through high school
What is Confidence
300
75%
What is the OECD average retention rate
300
77.1% have post school qualifications
What is Elwood's % for post school qualifications? (fine if they just say Elwood.
400
Minimal participation in the broader school community.
What is one predictor of disengagement and dropping out?
400
Availability of resources, time spent with/supervision by the parents, socilisation are all apart of this.
What are family structural differences?
400
48% said this was key in staying on
What is friends
400
FAST (Families and Schools together)
What is a strategy to improve retention
400
It is encouraged by the school.
What is pushed out?
500
Anger, anxiety, lack of intrinsic motivation and decreased liking for the subject.
What are the impacts of a controlling teaching style on students?
500
SES differences, which produce differences in student quality.
Why do certain people go to Public schools and others to Private schools?
500
This was suggested by Hughes (2005) to make students feel more capable of completing high school
What are student-teacher relationships
500
Focus on early intervention
What is an alternative strategy for improving retention
500
The lowest in SES area on the table and graph.
What is Cranbourne?