THE ESTIMATION OF DIMENSION AND FACTORS OF SCHOOL ABANDON

Abstract

During the transition period, in Romania, the dimension of school abandon had risen. The main goals of the study are: to estimate the school abandon rate by each educational level in Romania, to identify the factors which affect school abandon on urban and rural areas and at development regions level; to analyze the causes of earlier school abandon. In the same time, the analysis had also followed the temporal component, by including in the database the last decade statistical information. The school abandon was measured as the difference between the numbers of pupils/students found at the end of the school year and the same category enrolled at the beginning of the same year.

Keywords

• school dropout rate
• education
• ANOVA Method
• development region
• urban/rural area