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This inter-disciplinary, quantitative and qualitative longitudinal study in the form of a panel design, with 3705 students and funded by the GEBERT RÜF FOUNDATION, will for the first time analyze young school drop-outs in Switzerland. In the focus of interest there are psychological, economic and social effects and costs as well as possible connections to delinquent behaviour. The head of the project will be located at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Fribourg, the study will be carried out in cooperation with national economists from the University of Applied Sciences Northern Switzerland. The project will pursue three goals: - Firstly, individual and institutional aspects of school drop-outs in the German-speaking part of Switzerland will be recorded. - Secondly, insights regarding opportunities of vocational training, the probability of returning to the educational system and the social and national-economic costs of school drop-outs in Switzerland will be gained. - Thirdly, prevention and intervention possibilities are supposed to be purposefully discussed on the basis of the results. The latter are supposed to support schools and teachers in the future. The following paper will focus on the first research question, in the context of which on the one hand a prediction model on explaining the drop-out phenomenon shall be developed on the basis of the quantitative and qualitative data set; on the other hand specific risk factors of the drop-out problem shall be identified in the context of a target group analysis. In this context, one focus will be on important aspects of the drop-out phenomenon, such as relation to school, skiving off school, relation to the family and the latter´s origin, friends, leisure time activities and delinquent behaviour. After a content-analytical evaluation following Mayring (2007) and Kluge´s development of ideal types (1999), a typology of drop-outs was sketched on the basis of the qualitative interviews.
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