Student Dropouts In Higher Education

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This study is going to include extensive research on the rate of student dropouts from higher education, the reason for students’ dropout as well as the suitable development tool and programming languages used to develop the mobile application.
Dropouts rate results increases during end of each year and it can often leave students feeling helpless and lost. (Weiss, n.d.). The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (2014) found out that students who applied for university in the year 2005 – 2006 along with factors associated with the probability of leaving higher education during first year of study. In the end of year 2010 – 2011, 7.4% of the students quit their course, 9.2% are males. However, mature entrants are more likely to drop …show more content…

(De Witte et al., 2013). According to Cooper and Chavira’s study, one of the student-related factors for higher education dropouts are academic achievements, commonly measured by conducting tests or exams or by other indicators such as school retention or enrolment in special educations, to discern the effects of student’s path of achievement or skills. (Cooper and Chavira, 2005). However, most scholars found out that academic achievements are predictive for early education leaving. (Rumberger, 2004a). In addition, several factors preventing students getting a higher education could also relate to student pregnancy or employment. Other predictors of leaving university or graduate are academic professional aspirations or expectations. (e.g., Rumberger, 1983), such as lack of engagement in psychological and cognitive subtypes. Appleton et al. …show more content…

PhoneGap can help developers develop applications that can run on several mobile platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows and more, the apps that are developed for multiple platforms can be maintained and it abolishes the differences of interface and functions while displaying on different platforms. Besides that, PhoneGap includes strong and backend systems that can speed up development process and reduce developer’s effort, along with using common browser based skills that requires additional inputs. Hence, the business owners can improve workflow performance and get it developed smartly. It has an open source license that can compile free codes and modules. (Arnesson,

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