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Record W4389697138 · doi:10.55016/ojs/ajer.v59i2.55581

Profiles of Canadian Postsecondary Education Dropouts

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Xin Ma, George Frempong

Bibliographic record

VenueAlberta Journal of Educational Research · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation Systems and Policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersHuman Resources and Skills Development Canada
KeywordsPostsecondary educationHumanitiesPolitical sciencePsychologySociologyPedagogyHigher education

Abstract

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Using longitudinal data of 18- to 20-year-old youths from the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS), the present analysis identified and profiled Canadian postsecondary education dropouts based on the theoretical framework of Tinto (1993). Pertaining to characteristics of pre-postsecondary education conditions, dropouts tended to be male, set low postsecondary education goals, and have a history of dropping out and drug abuse in high school. Pertaining to characteristics of postsecondary education integration, dropouts demonstrated a first-year postsecondary education GPA of 60% or lower, an avoidance of volunteering on campus, and a lack of personal connections on campus. In addition, dropouts have previously contemplated quitting, have low sense of belonging, rely on social assistance, have neither institutional scholarships nor parental loans, are married, and are pursuing postsecondary programs in trade schools or technical schools. Integration into postsecondary education is far more critical to student attrition than pre-postsecondary education conditions. Puisant dans les données longitudinales d’une enquête de Statistique Canada auprès des jeunes en transition (Youth in Transition Survey), notamment la cohorte des 18 à 20 ans, la présente analyse a identifié et souligné, selon le cadre théorique de Tinto (1993), les individus ayant décroché en cours d’études postsecondaires. Ceux qui décrochent avant les études postsecondaires sont souvent masculins, ils se fixent des objectifs limités relatifs aux études supérieures et ont des antécédents impliquant des abandons scolaires et la toxicomanie au secondaire. Parmi les caractéristiques des décrocheurs au niveau postsecondaire, notons une moyenne globale inférieure ou équivalente à 60% lors de leur première année d’études supérieures, une absence de participation aux activités bénévoles sur le campus et un manque de liens personnels sur le campus. De plus, les décrocheurs ont souvent déjà pensé à abandonner, manifestent un faible sentiment d’appartenance, comptent sur l’assistance sociale, n’ont pas reçu de bourses institutionnelles ni de prêts de la part de leurs parents, sont mariés et poursuivent des études postsecondaires dans des écoles techniques ou des écoles de métiers. L’intégration joue un rôle beaucoup plus critique dans le taux d’abandon des étudiants au niveau postsecondaire qu’au secondaire.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.751
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.084
GPT teacher head0.455
Teacher spread0.371 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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