Browsing by Author "Valmari, Jenni"

This study was based on monitoring research project in the municipalities of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area (MetrOP). The study was attended by 13,500 young people whose school trail was followed from lower to upper secondary education. The aim of the study is to find out what kind of group of students who participated in the MetrOP project, did not continue in upper secondary education after primary school. Research questions were: 1) What kind of group of students was who did not continue to upper secondary education after the lower secondary school in the MetrOP project material? 2) What kind of factors were related to the fact that the studies did not continue in the upper secondary education? What factors were most important? The theoretical background of the research was The Ecology of Human Development - theory by Bronfenbrenner. Material of this study was based on monitoring of the first two phases of the MetrOP study. The first part was collected in schools in the autumn in 2011, when students started a lower secondary education and the second part was collected in the spring in 2014 at the end of the ninth grade. Students performing learning to learn tasks and the questioning of the residential area and social norms concerning it. In addition, they responded to both surveys on welfare and health. The material was analyzed quantitatively using SPSS and Amos- statistical programs. The students who did not become approved upper secondary education and those students who did not take received place were studied separately. Based on this study, the factors impacting continuation of the upper secondary education were attitude towards learning and motivation, future orientation, great point average, need of special education, education of parents, home and residential area and friendship. These factors also included in path model for continuing studies.