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Bowers, Alex J.; Sprott, Ryan; Taff, Sherry A. – High School Journal, 2013
The purpose of this study is to review the literature on the most accurate indicators of students at risk of dropping out of high school. We used Relative Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis to compare the sensitivity and specificity of 110 dropout flags across 36 studies. Our results indicate that 1) ROC analysis provides a means to compare…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Dropouts, Accuracy, Computation

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