Adjusting Your Dreams? High School Plans and Dropout Behaviour

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Goux, Dominique; Gurgand, Marc; Maurin, Eric
• 署名单位: Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris; Paris School of Economics; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Paris School of Economics
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12317
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 1025-1046
• 关键词: education

摘要

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%.