Leave or Stay? School Leaving Problems

Abstract

In Hungary, school leaving is a huge problem. It is not unusual to measure about 50 percent dropout rate, which is higher than Europe’s average, so I started studying this incidence’s background. We already know that the most common reason behind that big number is demotivation, leaving school for work, losing their community, and so on, but I started analyzing these situations deeper. I realized that universities have already tried to lower the rate with unique solutions, like mentor-programs, tutoring, e-learning etc., and it already decreased the chance of school leave, but in most cases, they have no documented ranking how much student-keeping projects helped one by one. I would like to revise these programs, rate their efficiency, likability and compare them to student’s preferences. When it is completed, I properly rank them, this way I can show which ones are not useful. In the current state of the inquiry, I already created a beta-test, where I asked my focus group about the core questions and they gave ideas about how I can improve it. My goal is to ask most of the Óbuda university junior, this way I can collect data and analyze correlations. At the end of the study, I want to present a solution that will help reducing this percentage.

In Hungary, school leaving is a huge problem. It is not unusual to measure about 50 percent dropout rate, which is higher than Europe’s average, so I started studying this incidence’s background. We already know that the most common reason behind that big number is demotivation, leaving school for work, losing their community, and so on, but I started analyzing these situations deeper. I realized that universities have already tried to lower the rate with unique solutions, like mentor-programs, tutoring, e-learning etc., and it already decreased the chance of school leave, but in most cases, they have no documented ranking how much student-keeping projects helped one by one. I would like to revise these programs, rate their efficiency, likability and compare them to student’s preferences. When it is completed, I properly rank them, this way I can show which ones are not useful. In the current state of the inquiry, I already created a beta-test, where I asked my focus group about the core questions and they gave ideas about how I can improve it. My goal is to ask most of the Óbuda university junior, this way I can collect data and analyze correlations. At the end of the study, I want to present a solution that will help reducing this percentage.