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Peer reviewedKortering, Larry; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1992
This study found that a linear discriminant function was able, with 73 percent accuracy, to distinguish between learning-disabled dropouts (n=213) and learning-disabled graduates (n=92). The discriminant function was composed of six variables--student ethnicity, reading ability, family intactness, family socioeconomic status, school transfers, and…
Descriptors: Attendance, Classification, Discriminant Analysis, Dropout Research
