Vocational students' intention to drop out in Flanders

For decades, western education confronts the problem of student unqualified dropout, which is most prevalent in vocational education. Relatively little research focuses on the role teachers might play in students' decision to quit school. By means of multilevel analyses on data of 2589 vocation...

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Autores: Van Houtte, Mieke, Demanet, Jannick
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:201671
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/201671
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Vocational education
Dropout intention
Teacher expectations
Descrição
Resumo:For decades, western education confronts the problem of student unqualified dropout, which is most prevalent in vocational education. Relatively little research focuses on the role teachers might play in students' decision to quit school. By means of multilevel analyses on data of 2589 vocational students in 48 Flemish secondary schools, this study examines whether teachers' shared expectations of their students associate with vocational students' (intention to) dropout. In vocational education, teachers' beliefs about the teachability of students influence students' intention to quit, irrespective of students' perceived teacher support and students' sense of futility.