The problem of increasing dropout rates in the nation's public school system has attracted the attention of almost every segment of our society. Government agencies have documented the extent of the dropout problem on both national and state levels. In response, the Florida Legislature mandated a series of statutes designed to remedy the problem. Many schools and communities responded and involved vocational education programs to provide high-risk students with concrete reasons for remaining in school. / The purpose of this state-wide study was to survey selected populations to ascertain their opinions as to which of the literature-based, dropout prevention variables were considered to be most effective in retaining high-risk students in the school system. / Two juries of "experts" were invited to participate. Jury A consisted of vocational education directors while Jury B was selected from the school district's dropout prevention persons. A third population of interest was a stratified sample of high-risk students. A modified form of the Delphi technique was employed as the data collection procedure. / The principal findings included: (1) the most successful dropout prevention variables selected by the juries were almost identical to those found in the literature, (2) there was little evidence to support the existence of any positive and helpful relationships between teachers, staff, and high-risk students from participating school districts, (3) there was no evidence of any close linkages existing between academic and vocational education programs in the participating school districts and, (4) a wide range of new teaching and learning strategies are needed to increase student interest and to better reflect the relevancy of school to the workplace. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-03, Section: A, page: 0892. / Major Professor: W. Hugh Hinely. / Thesis (Ed.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76342 |
| Contributors | Berger, Ernest Gothfried., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 199 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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