A Comparative Study of Dropout Rates and Causes for Two Different Distance Education Courses

This paper reports the results of a survey conducted to examine the root causes leading to student dropout at a Greek distance education university. Data was gathered from two different courses – an undergraduate course leading to a Bachelors degree in Informatics (characterized by high dropout rate...

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Autores principales:	Christos Pierrakeas, Michalis Xeno, Christos Panagiotakopoulos, Dimitris Vergidis
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2004
Materias:	Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5a174e9bf56b46138ebcf830b500fd9a2021-12-02T17:00:39ZA Comparative Study of Dropout Rates and Causes for Two Different Distance Education Courses10.19173/irrodl.v5i2.1831492-3831https://doaj.org/article/5a174e9bf56b46138ebcf830b500fd9a2004-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/183https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831This paper reports the results of a survey conducted to examine the root causes leading to student dropout at a Greek distance education university. Data was gathered from two different courses – an undergraduate course leading to a Bachelors degree in Informatics (characterized by high dropout rates), and a postgraduate course leading to a Masters degree in education (characterized by low dropout rates). A comparative analysis of these two different courses revealed important similarities in dropout percentages and the reasons cited by students for dropping out. Our analysis also revealed important differences as well. This paper presents the results of a survey designed to investigate the relationship between dropout with intrinsic (student-related) factors such as sickness, work/ school conflict etc., and extrinsic (institutional-related) factors such as study methods and materials, educational approach, and tutor influence.Christos PierrakeasMichalis XenoChristos PanagiotakopoulosDimitris VergidisAthabasca University PressarticleSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 5, Iss 2 (2004)
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description	This paper reports the results of a survey conducted to examine the root causes leading to student dropout at a Greek distance education university. Data was gathered from two different courses – an undergraduate course leading to a Bachelors degree in Informatics (characterized by high dropout rates), and a postgraduate course leading to a Masters degree in education (characterized by low dropout rates). A comparative analysis of these two different courses revealed important similarities in dropout percentages and the reasons cited by students for dropping out. Our analysis also revealed important differences as well. This paper presents the results of a survey designed to investigate the relationship between dropout with intrinsic (student-related) factors such as sickness, work/ school conflict etc., and extrinsic (institutional-related) factors such as study methods and materials, educational approach, and tutor influence.
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title	A Comparative Study of Dropout Rates and Causes for Two Different Distance Education Courses
title_short	A Comparative Study of Dropout Rates and Causes for Two Different Distance Education Courses
title_full	A Comparative Study of Dropout Rates and Causes for Two Different Distance Education Courses
title_fullStr	A Comparative Study of Dropout Rates and Causes for Two Different Distance Education Courses
title_full_unstemmed	A Comparative Study of Dropout Rates and Causes for Two Different Distance Education Courses
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A Comparative Study of Dropout Rates and Causes for Two Different Distance Education Courses

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