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Identification Of The Potential High School Dropout, Alan L. Vaughan
Identification Of The Potential High School Dropout, Alan L. Vaughan
Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education
This research was conducted to determine a methodology for the early identification of potential dropouts in the Chesapeake Public School System. A review of research literature determined that many discriminating characteristics had been identified as influential in a student's decision to drop out or stay in school. This study sought to be useful in a practical school setting. Therefore, the study limited its scope to those discriminating characteristics available in student records and thus readily accessible to school personnel. The predictor variables listed below are well documented in the research as discriminating characteristics relating to a student dropping out of …