...CAUSES OF DROPOUT RATES AT THE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND ACCOUNTANCY AS PERCEIVED BY THE FIRST YEAR BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN PHILIPPINES ________________________ A RESEARCH PAPER Presented To: Rhea Benzon, MAME Statistics Instructor ________________________ In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the 1st Semester 2012-2013 In Statistics I __________________________ Presented by: Genafril Mae A. Benzon Danna Marie B. Tabuada Jaidee M. Rosario Kim L.Umnas Reynaldo B. Deocales Jr. Virgette B. Lavanar Ruthleen Jane A. Castro Karen R. Jaramillo CERTIFICATION This research entitled “CAUSES OF DROPOUT RATES AT THE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND ACCOUNTANCY AS PERCEIVED BY THE FIRST YEAR BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN PHILIPPINES” in the COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND ACCOUNTANCY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN PHILIPPINES, TAMAG, VIGAN CITY, ILOCOS SUR prepared and submitted by Genafril Mae A. Benzon, Danna Marie Tabuada, Jaidee M. Rosario, Kim L.Umnas, Reynaldo Deocales Jr., Virgette Lavanar, Karen Jaramillo, Ruth Jane Castro in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the 1st Semester of Statistics I, have been reviewed and recommended for acceptance and approval for final defense. Novie Ada Urbis, MAT-Eng Critic Rhea Benzon, MAME Statistics Instructor APPROVAL SHEET Approved by the Panel of Examiner on...
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...Hypothesis Identification Article Analysis Robert P. Ranelle II RES/342 July 21, 2011 Professor James Krause Hypothesis Identification Article Analysis When it comes to defining the hypothesis a person looks for the temporarily accepted explanation required to understand certain events or phenomena. He or she does this to provide direction toward further investigation. The researcher may find the hypothesis to either be proven correct or in error, but there must exist a degree of rejection concerning the hypothesis. If the hypothesis remains unrefuted by facts, then the hypothesis is said to be verified or corroborated (BusinessDictionary.com, 2011). I reviewed the article “Inclusive Schools and Dropout Rates: A Phenomenological Approach” by Connie F. Holloway. The hypothesis involved how high schools in the study impacted students, the relationship between these schools and the increasing number of high school dropouts, and whether or not these students graduated without the skills or knowledge necessary to secure employment (Holloway, 2010). The study explained how educators expressed concerns with the increasing numbers of high school students not graduating, and how those who did graduated without the necessary tools for gainful employment. The study explains how this problem negatively affects the labor market and hurts the economy in this country. That many of the students are between 14 to 16, and come from lower income Black and Latino...
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...Economics of a College Drop Out Research Term Paper By Eleazar Rangel 7/02/2013 South Texas College Econ 2302 Professor Oscar Plaza A. Introduction: Economics of a Dropout High cost of college and several other factors are causing the number of college dropouts to rise drastically. Understanding why this numbers are soaring is important. For example why has the rise of the cost of college nearly sextupled since 1985? Or why has the student loan debt held by Americans surpassed the $1 trillion mark? In addition to answering these questions, I will discuss the different arguments, opinions; facts regarding the toll college dropout play in this economy, and finally my final point regarding this college dropout syndrome. B. The issue: Why are students dropping out of college? This is an important topic because what factors cause students to drop out of college? According to a study from Harvard University, only 56% of students who enter college or universities graduated within a six-year period (only 29% who enter a two-year program graduate within a three year span). A main factor, according to the Harvard study, is the rising cost of the college education. Since 1985 the amount of student loan debt has surpassed the $1trillion mark and cost of a college education has sextupled. The graph below, by the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, shows the difference in price changes since 1985. As you can see in the graph college tuition and fees has drastically...
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...MOHAMED 201205726 COURSE NAME: RESEARCH METHODS DATE OF SUBMISSION: JUNE 2nd, 2014 INTRODUCTION Technology has an important presence in every sphere of our lives today. The field of education should make use of technology and the new, advanced and computerized tools available to us today to increase student attendance and improve their efficiency. The computerized tools can help professors in time management and also reduces errors in the calculation of attendance for usage in the student’s transcripts. It is clear from previous research studies that increased attendance of students helps to improve their grades and increase their motivation to study. Previous studies have also shown the improved performance of students after using computers and other animated tools in their classroom. This has led us to conduct this research to observe and document the effects of the electronic attendance system on students' attendance in QU. The purpose of this research is to understand if the electronic attendance system installed in Qatar University has improved the attendance and minimized the dropouts in lectures. Our understanding is that the attendance of the students has increased and that we were able to keep absenteeism at zero. This research will be done with the help of various departments of Qatar University. The advantages of using such an electronic system and recommendations for future studies will also be discussed. LITERATURE REVIEW Many researches have been done recently...
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...Various causes contribute to the student dropout problem in colleges. One of the top reasons for leaving college is that it is hard to have to support oneself and go to school at the same time. Balancing work and school is a bigger barrier than finding money for tuition for many. In fact, more than a third of the dropouts said that even if they got a grant that covered their books and tuition, it would be hard to go back to school, given their work and family commitments (Lewin, 2009). For many, the financial burdens of college are too overwhelming. Often students will plan the finances for only the first year or the first semester, but they will not look ahead at how they will be paying for the rest. Some students are fortunate, however to have family that can help with their tuition, but that is not the case for all. Only one in five of the students who enroll in two-year institutions graduate within three years. And even at four-year colleges, only two in five complete their degrees within six years. (Lewin, 2009). With government funding dropping, colleges rely largely on higher student tuitions. According to the College Board, the average cost of tuition and fees for the 2013–2014 school years was $30,094 at private colleges, $8,893 for state residents at public colleges, and $22,203 for out-of-state residents. (College Data, 2014). However, college administrators estimate that almost a third of all college students drop out of school sometime during their...
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...Brittany Coleman PSY-311-601 December 13, 2015 Social Psychology to the Rescue, College Student Dropout Rates I. Literature Review One growing concern for colleges and universities across the United States is college student dropout rates. According to College Atlas, 70% of Americans will study at a 4-year college, but less than two-thirds will graduate. About 40% of full-time students attending a 4-year institution in the United States complete a bachelor’s degree within 4 years, while around 58.6 % of students earn theirs within 6 years. Among research and findings pertaining to college student dropout rates, social, psychological, and economic factors tend to be the main causes of such a high percentage of college student dropouts. In the article titled, College Student Retention: An Exploration of the Relationship between Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Purpose in Life among College Students, DeWitz, Woosley, and Walsh believed that high school GPA, support, motivation, and coping strategies were all predictors of college student persistence. When a college student does not master these areas, then this could lead to them possibly dropping out. The article goes on to explain that student with low high school GPA’s tend to have a more difficult time meeting the academic requirements compared to a college student who had a relatively higher high school GPA. This could possibly require the student to put more time into their academics and therefore put a hold on developing...
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...* * * * * * Course Project GM533 Applied Managerial Statistics Professor Cook February 14, 2011 TO: FROM: DATE: February 14, 2011 SUBJECT: Analysis of Factors that Affect Property Crime Rates I have analyzed the data of the factors that affect property crime rates in the United States. Here are my results. Data The data provided included; crime rate per hundred thousand inhabitants (which included burglary, larceny, theft, and motor vehicle theft), pincome- per capita income for each state, dropout- high school drop-out rate, precip- average precipitation in inches in the major city in each state over 1951-1980, pubaid- percentage of public aid recipients, density- population/total square miles, kids- public aid for families with children (dollars per family), unemploy- percentage of unemployed workers, urban- percentage of the residents living in urban areas. This data was provided by U.S. government sources: “the 1988 Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration, the Commerce Department, Bureau of Economic Analysis, the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce and Geography Division, the Labor Department, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Climatic Data Center, U.S. Department of Commerce” (Bowerman, O’Connell, Orris, and Murphree). I have used a multiple regression...
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...Daisy Mercedes Professor Winchell English 101 December 16, 2013 The Cost of College In today’s society college education is needed to achieve a successful career. Jobs have become increasingly difficult to get without a college degree. I think that college education is getting costly especially in today’s economy. Although, I believe that people should go to college and comprehend the importance of higher learning, and to have access to higher social and economic class. “Therefore, one issue that most of college students face when getting a college education are tuitions bill and years of debt. As a consequence a higher percentage of dropout students that is increasing date to date.” (Eduardo Porter) After I graduate high school I had struggled for money to pay for college which I think it is very hard once you are used to free education all your life. Thereof, paying so much money for a higher education is bringing the number down of students who are earning a degree, and is declining over the years. I believe that it is much easier for `students who come from an wealthy family that have opportunity to enroll in college right out of high school because they can afford it. However for students in a lower income family like me tuition rates make that near impossible. I believe that if high schools refocus on training students for jobs that lead directly to apprenticeships it could lead the...
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...to participate in normal activities and are jeopardizing their home, school, work and health. It is not healthy for an adult student to work and attend to other aspects of their life without thinking about leaving the college environment and just tend to the everyday need of their families. Adult learners are returning to college by the thousands to learn that they may not be able to handle such a heavy workload when they start out, but some adult learners says that they can handle the pressure of family, school and work. Is this healthy for the adult learners or are they headed for more than they bargain for. Coupled with financial strain, work and family commitments accounts for more than 50 percent of adult college students dropouts according to a study conducted by the Inside Track, a national student coaching company. (Dewey Square Group) According to the company the adult learners that are faced with challenges that keep them from performing well on an academic level says that they are burdened with the everyday struggles that most high school students entering college with a family would have and that is about 7 percent of the adult college learners. There are non-traditional students that are among the graduates that need support in...
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...within the U.S public education system are astonishing; with almost every American president since the 1960s promising education reform, with none being successful. The fate of millions of children around the country lies in the hands of irresponsible adults, individuals who are responsible for these poor education systems. The 2010 documentary Waiting for Superman travels in depth to the corrupt system that will continue to affect the lives of the same people who will soon be Americas future. In the gripping documentary it is revealed that a leading factor to our faulty system is the refusal of teachers unions to adopt a system that rewards good teachers. Due to the tenure system that was enacted by American Association of University Professors in 1900, teachers are guaranteed a life contract that declares that their position cannot be terminated without just cause. This means that bad teachers who only hinder their students’ performance can keep their jobs and not suffer any repercussion’s. However, good teachers who do their job well are paid just as much as the bad teacher, indicating the unfair nature of our system. However, this isn’t the only problem. As parents realize that our public education system may only lead to negative situations they aim to send their children to schools that provide a better future. Waiting for superman introduces five children in different parts of the country that are all hoping to get into a charter school that offers more chances and a structured...
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...Running Head: Case 49 Property Crimes Andrea K. Wallace GM533 Professor Beintema Keller Graduate School of Management October 16, 2011 Executive Summary After examining the eight variables that attribute to property crimes, the three variables that effect crime are density, dropout and urban. When density increases by 1%, this would cause a decrease in crime rate. When the dropout rate increases by 1%, this would cause an increase in property crimes. When urban area crimes increase by 1%, the property crime rate increases. The more crowded the urban areas are, the more property crimes will be committed. Introduction Crime is an act of violence that is carried out by an individual or multiple individuals. A crime can be toward another person or property of a person or company. Property Crimes often occurs when someone tries to steal something that is not the property of their own and in other scenarios, the destruction of someone else’s property also. There are many different types of property crimes. Burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, larceny & arson are few that can fall under that category. This research is going to examine the cause of property crime based on the income, dropout, precipitation, public aid recipients, density, kids, unemployment, urban area, and state. The information that was provided was given by variety of United States government sources. ANALYSIS AND METHOD: Minitab was used to analyze the given data and test the various facts. Crime...
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...stakeholder in education, because these tests are paid for by tax dollars, and the return on investment in education is not where it should be. Standardized tests should be abolished and replaced with end-of-year subject tests because they will save time and money, lead to increased mastery of core subjects, and diminish dropout rates. Clemmitt, M. (2007, July 13). Students under stress. CQ Researcher, 17, 577–600. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/ This article discusses the pressure that students face in public schools today. Homework has increased, as has stress caused by high-stakes standardized testing. This type of pressure results in less time for children to play, sleep, and interact with their parents. The solution is to limit the time children spend on homework, but given that American students lag behind their international peers in tests of basic subjects, decreasing schoolwork seems not to be the answer. Although Clemmitt is a journalist and not an expert on the subject, she cites many experts and authoritative sources to lend credibility to the article, including books and surveys from education researchers and college professors. The article provides a balanced view of homework with arguments from experts across the country. My assessment: The article indicates that standardized testing discourages teachers, and the pressure to perform on these tests results in teachers transferring the pressure onto their students. This idea can be used to...
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...agarment factory, did not protest too hard when their son said he wanted to leave school and work. The family was struggling to make ends meet, and the extra income was much needed. Observers believe that the situation of tens of thousands of poor families like Ali’s has become even more desperate since the global economic crisis struck in 2007. Such families are now forced to prematurely pull their children out of school and send them to work. Several other boys with similar stories to Ali are employed by the latter’s boss. Some, like 16-year-old Anzar Khan, along with his younger brother and sister, are still in school. But further hardships could force him and his siblings to follow in Zoheb’s footsteps. Biman Prasad, an economics professor at the University of the South Pacific, said that despite having more than 95 percent of children in school, there are more children living in poverty and more of them engaged in child labour than before. “The main reason why we see more students not being able to complete primary education is financial difficulties,” said Prasad....
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...Jessica Schmitt English 111 Professor Kate Comer September 14, 2014 The Struggle as a Part-time Student and a Full-time Worker “In 2012, 46.5 million people were living in poverty in the United States—the largest number in the 54 years the Census has measured poverty. The poverty rate also remained at high levels: 15% for all Americans and 21.8% for children under age 18.”(ncleji) The poverty the children are born into effects them terribly, by turning them into adults at a young age. They have to begin working just to help their families provide shelter and food to live. While helping to provide for your family as a young adult your priority is working, and it isn’t necessarily completing assignments and hanging out with their friends. We live in a generation where education is usually a major key to a successful lifestyle. This has became a huge controversial issue these last few years because of fear that the youth will not be able to rise into elders foot steps causing poverty to rise and the gap between the poor and rich to grow immensely. The Public Service Announcement shows a young girl working at the register of a fast food place, and she is looking down at the register. There is another teenage girl working in the back preparing food.Written in the middle of the photo starting from the left in white is “Heather, 10th grade” directly underneath that “Worked 20 minutes on math problems.” and again “worked 45 minutes on term paper.”. After that with white...
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...Yolanda Cheney Professor Henderson English 101 October 22, 2014 School drop-outs and Employment It is well known that individuals who do not complete high school face many more obstacles than those who earn a high school diploma or the equivalent credentials such as a general education diploma (GED). Individuals who drop-out of high school will more likely be unemployed or find it difficult to find steady work with efficient pay. The lack of education can lead to financial hardship which in turn can make living comfortably a task to accomplish. It is hard to live a healthy life without a job and money. There are many various reasons as to why individuals are unemployed and one of those reasons is that he or she did not finish some type of schooling. Education is very important for advancement and provides the foundation for individuals to build upon which allows them to provide stability and comfort for themselves and their family. Some individuals cannot get hired because they do not have an education and they are not qualified to do the work required. Most companies will call a person’s references and if they do not have a good work record then they are not likely to get hired. Employers will always hire the most qualified person based on their resume, or brief account of one’s education and professional experience. One of the key reasons that signify the cause of individuals being unemployed is the lack of intelligence taken from past educational experience. Many...
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