Academic Failure and Dropout: Untangling Two Realities

Academic failure and school dropout, or early school leaving, are two of the situations that most concern countries and educational institutions worldwide, because of their prevalence and also their economic and social implications. Despite this prominent role that academic failure and school dropou...

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Autores: Gutiérrez de Rozas Guijarro, Belén, Carpintero Molina, Elvira, López Martín, Esther
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Repositorio:e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNED
Idioma:inglés
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Palavra-chave:5801.05 Pedagogía experimental
academic failure
bibliometric analysis
dropouts
keyword analysis
systematic review
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spelling Academic Failure and Dropout: Untangling Two RealitiesGutiérrez de Rozas Guijarro, BelénCarpintero Molina, ElviraLópez Martín, Esther5801.05 Pedagogía experimentalacademic failurebibliometric analysisdropoutskeyword analysissystematic reviewAcademic failure and school dropout, or early school leaving, are two of the situations that most concern countries and educational institutions worldwide, because of their prevalence and also their economic and social implications. Despite this prominent role that academic failure and school dropout have in societies, there seems to be no consensus on the literature on their conceptualization, definition, and relationship. Moreover, it is frequent to observe how both concepts are confused or overlap in the scientific literature and how many authors avoid defining these constructs, using them indistinctly. Therefore, this work analyses whether educational research considers them as two different concepts or if they are used indistinctly. For this purpose, 2,051 keywords from 450 articles were subjected to a systematic review and classified into the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) thesaurus´ descriptors. The results reveal statistically significant differences in the descriptors according to the type of paper to which they correspond (academic failure or dropout). Thus, academic failure is associated with sociocultural, personal, and academic factors, while dropout is linked to employment and educational trajectories. These differences evidence that, although academic failure and school dropout refer to closely related educational problems, there are remarkable differences between them and between the treatment given to each of them in the scientific literature. Therefore, they should be considered as two different concepts. For all this, keyword analysis has proved to be a relevant element for the study of the structure of knowledge, allowing to clearly establish the differences between the two closely related concepts.Eurasian Society of Educational ResearchMinisterio de Ciencia, Innovación y UniversidadesMinisterio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)e-Spacio UNED20252025-10-2720222022-10-1520222022-10-15journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/30647reponame:e-spacio. Repositorio Institucional de la UNEDinstname:Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.esoai:e-spacio.uned.es:20.500.14468/306472026-06-06T12:38:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Academic Failure and Dropout: Untangling Two Realities
title Academic Failure and Dropout: Untangling Two Realities
spellingShingle Academic Failure and Dropout: Untangling Two Realities
Gutiérrez de Rozas Guijarro, Belén
5801.05 Pedagogía experimental
academic failure
bibliometric analysis
dropouts
keyword analysis
systematic review
title_short Academic Failure and Dropout: Untangling Two Realities
title_full Academic Failure and Dropout: Untangling Two Realities
title_fullStr Academic Failure and Dropout: Untangling Two Realities
title_full_unstemmed Academic Failure and Dropout: Untangling Two Realities
title_sort Academic Failure and Dropout: Untangling Two Realities
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gutiérrez de Rozas Guijarro, Belén
Carpintero Molina, Elvira
López Martín, Esther
author Gutiérrez de Rozas Guijarro, Belén
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Carpintero Molina, Elvira
López Martín, Esther
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López Martín, Esther
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
e-Spacio UNED
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 5801.05 Pedagogía experimental
academic failure
bibliometric analysis
dropouts
keyword analysis
systematic review
topic 5801.05 Pedagogía experimental
academic failure
bibliometric analysis
dropouts
keyword analysis
systematic review
description Academic failure and school dropout, or early school leaving, are two of the situations that most concern countries and educational institutions worldwide, because of their prevalence and also their economic and social implications. Despite this prominent role that academic failure and school dropout have in societies, there seems to be no consensus on the literature on their conceptualization, definition, and relationship. Moreover, it is frequent to observe how both concepts are confused or overlap in the scientific literature and how many authors avoid defining these constructs, using them indistinctly. Therefore, this work analyses whether educational research considers them as two different concepts or if they are used indistinctly. For this purpose, 2,051 keywords from 450 articles were subjected to a systematic review and classified into the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) thesaurus´ descriptors. The results reveal statistically significant differences in the descriptors according to the type of paper to which they correspond (academic failure or dropout). Thus, academic failure is associated with sociocultural, personal, and academic factors, while dropout is linked to employment and educational trajectories. These differences evidence that, although academic failure and school dropout refer to closely related educational problems, there are remarkable differences between them and between the treatment given to each of them in the scientific literature. Therefore, they should be considered as two different concepts. For all this, keyword analysis has proved to be a relevant element for the study of the structure of knowledge, allowing to clearly establish the differences between the two closely related concepts.
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