The beginning of studies and the prediction of university abandonment
The beginning of studies and the prediction of university abandonment

Summary/Abstract: This study makes an incursion on the issue of abandoning the higher education, understood as the most serious situation in which is a first-year student, who wants to abandon the studies. Also, in its turn, the phenomenon of abandonment is linked to the social exclusion, unemployment, poverty, delinquency, lack of health insurance, which means that a poor education, without exploiting own possibilities, trains, like a snowball, a series of shortcomings. However, we can distinguish the abandon from the false failures that can occur in the cases of shy, indecisive, pessimistic students, who usually assess exaggerated the difficulty of the current academic tasks, especially in the case of the difficult examinations, considered as impossible to be passed, as there is no confidence in their own possibilities for action. Thus, the smallest failure makes these students to devaluate themselves even more, to develop a fear of failure, which they will consider as a fatality. The reason for choosing such a thema is closely related to the high rate of university abandonment in our country, which requires a detailed analysis of the causes in order to prevent or improve them. At the national level, the results of certain research indicate the main causes: the financial problems, dissatisfaction with the choice of specialization, but these causes are very diverse: the distance to the educational institution, the negative influences of the socio-cultural environment/the anti-school culture, the mobility/migration of parents which creates inconsistencies in the social integration, life events such as marriage and the birth of children, intellectual disability, insufficient training, health problems, teachers' poor pedagogical style and so on. From our perspective, as teachers, the prevention of dropping out of university studies can be achieved through remedial activities at the problematic disciplines, through counseling sessions in academic learning, personal development activities, or socio-professional/practical training

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