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High School Attrition

Author(s):
Stice, Glen; Ekstrom, Ruth B.
Publication Year:
1964
Report Number:
RB-64-53
Source:
ETS Research Bulletin
Document Type:
Report
Page Count:
60
Subject/Key Words:
Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts, High School Students, Student Attrition, Student Characteristics

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe the high school dropout with regard to his or her educational, vocational, and sociological characteristics. Data were collected from a stratified sample of 97 public high schools having 9,699 tenth-grade pupils. Two years later a follow-up was made to determine which pupils had completed high school. Dropouts were characterized by: (1) poor achievement in school, (2) having no plans for post-high school education, (3) low academic aptitude, (4) having a father who is not a high school graduate and who holds a job requiring little skill or training, (5) enrollment in a non-academic curriculum, and (6) living in the South or in a large city.

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