Not Buying It: Opting out, Vaccination and MoralityThe paper starts with describing the problem of “naive” or “freshman” relativism that is typically encountered by ethics teachers in introductory classes. I then go on to show this well-known problem, described thoroughly analysed several authors, might have obscured emergence a new different – opting out has become particularly obvious during ...

In this paper we use unique data to examine how college students from low income families for expectations about academic ability and to examine the role that learning about ability and a variety of other factors play in the in the college drop-out decision.

In the emerging field of educational data mining, a strong bias towards data-rich digital learning environments is the current state of affairs [2, table 2]. However, in many educational institutes a lot of regular course data will probably be more readily available. This data may also be used to support and advise students in various ways, for the better of the student as well as the institute...

The aim of this study was to assess drop-out rates and associated reasons among patients at the Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS) clinic. In a one-year period (April 2014 to March 2015), all patients with drug dependence who had been referred for treatment and attended for a first assessment were included in this study (N=242). Those who received treatment were followed unti...

The homeless drop out of treatment relatively frequently. Also, prevalence rates of personality disorders are much higher in the homeless group than in the general population. We hypothesize that when both variables coexist - homelessness and personality disorders - the possibility of treatment drop out grows. The aim of this study was to analyze the hypotheses, that is, to study how the existe...

A high drop-out rate prior to the running of a Marathon reduces its value as a spectacle and needlessly causes rejection and antagonism amongst potential runners. This research investigates reasons for pre-race drop-out in the 1983 Glasgow Marathon, and finds that a major cause was injury or illness during training, with a motivational difference existing between runners and non-runners.

PURPOSE The purpose of this research was to describe our group counseling methods for medical students with drop-out experiences. METHODS Group counseling was offered to 11 medical students with drop-out experiences in their previous second semester. All subjects provided written informed consent before participating and completed a 2-day group counseling program using the Gestalt approach. T...

Using unique longitudinal data, we study beliefs about academic ability at the time of college entrance and how students revise these beliefs as noisy information if received. We show that what a person learns about his academic ability during the first year is an important predictor of whether he remains in school. By taking advantage of additional longitudinal survey information, we compare t...

IT students dropping out is a key problem in academic institutions worldwide. Previous research on student dropout has advanced many factor or variance models explaining or predicting why university student drop out. Although these studies increased our understanding of the reasons students drop out of computer science courses, university studies, and online learning, we find the factor or vari...

The occurrence of missing data due to protocol deviations is inevitable in clinical trials. When missing data exist, analyses rely on assumptions about the behaviour of the individuals after dropping out. As a result, sensitivity analysis, which is now advocated by regulatory bodies, should be performed to explore the robustness of the inference to those assumptions. These assumptions should be...