Counseling & Support

Evidence-based Strategies - Examples, Research and Tools

Strategy f: Implement a formal system for staying in contact with and supporting the continuous learning of students, especially those who are absent or stopping out.

Examples

Making it Worth the Stay: Findings from the New England Learner Persistence Project, pp. 38-39
Andy Nash and Silja Kallenbach
These pages describe the strategies New England programs used to help students plan and follow a learning path.

Making it Worth the Stay: Findings from the New England Learner Persistence Project, pp. 52-53
Andy Nash and Silja Kallenbach
These pages describe the strategies New England programs used to provide individualized counseling and follow-up with students.

Research

Stopping Out, Not Dropping Out
Alisa Belzer
This article reports on a qualitative study of ten students who were interviewed several times about their perceptions and experiences of leaving a program.  For the most part, the students saw stopping out as the result of life circumstances and not as a personal failure. Researchers note some implications of this finding.