Adjusting Your Dreams? High School Plans and Dropout Behaviour

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ID9704540
AuthorsDominique Goux (CREST Paris), Marc Gurgand (0000-0002-0493-018X, Paris School of Economics), Éric Maurin (0000-0002-8721-3943, Paris School of Economics)
Year2017
Volume127
Issue602
Pages1025-1046
Publication date2017-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/ecoj.12317
OpenAlexW1939009833
LanguageEN
Citations received29
References cited18

At the end of middle school, many low‐achieving students realise that they do not have the ability to get into selective high school programmes, which may be a source of disengagement and eventually lead them to drop out of high school. Based on a randomised controlled trial, this article shows that a series of meetings facilitated by the school principals can help low‐achievers to formulate educational objectives better suited to their academic aptitudes. By changing the high school plans of the less realistic students, the intervention reduces grade repetition and dropout by 25% to 40

Disengagement theory · Drop out · Dropout (neural networks · Economics · Intervention (counseling · Mathematics education · Medical education · Pedagogy · Repetition (rhetorical device · School dropout · Sociology · Computer Science · Early Childhood Education and Development · Higher Education Research Studies · Medicine · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Gerontology

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