Why Students Drop Out of Teacher Education

Abstract

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Attrition of College of Education students at Iowa State University 1975-1980

“…Considerably less research has examined the factors related to drop out in teacher education. Nutter (1983) indicated that most of the drop outs from teacher education had had little or no experience with the teacher education curriculum. Students who take more than one course in the teacher education curriculum tend to finish the program rather than voluntarily transfer to another major.…”