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Attrition In A High School College Readiness System: Advancement Via Individual Determination (Avid), Michael D. Mozingo
Attrition In A High School College Readiness System: Advancement Via Individual Determination (Avid), Michael D. Mozingo
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The purpose of this study is to examine the substantial attrition that occurs during the high school years in the college readiness system known as Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID). The literature on this topic is very minimal, and studies in which students are dropping out of AVID are virtually non-existent. Through this study, I attempt to determine which characteristics of students that join AVID in the ninth grade are associated with exiting AVID prior to high school completion, and relative to one another, how strong those characteristics are as predictors of AVID dropout. I analyze student-level data from a …