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The purpose of this study was to conduct a program evaluation of an alternative educational program in North Carolina for high school students at-risk for dropping out. The CIPP model was used to evaluate to what extent the alternative educational program is achieving its stated…

The purpose of this study was to examine the factors associated with high attrition rate among the UAE citizen teachers who teach in public schools grades 1-12. The factors that this study investigated are: personal factors, economic factors, teacher preparation, employment fact…

This study addresses the limited research on the relationship between crucial therapeutic change processes—blame reduction and alliance building—and their relationship to retention in family therapy. This study compares families that dropped out early, or retained in an evidence…

Educational attainment in the U.S. continues to be marred by racial and socioeconomic (SES) disparities. Despite decades of research on the predictors of attainment and the decreases in dropout rates, minority-race and low-income youth continue to dropout at higher rates than th…

The focus of this study was interpersonal processes of difficult patient-therapist dyads and early identification of treatment failures in 30-session psychotherapy protocols. Forty-eight dyads were equally divided into premature dropout (DO), poor outcome (PO), or good outcome (…