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Olson, George H. – 1988
This paper acknowledges that research on school dropouts presents problems in the definitions and computation of dropout indices. It considers a variety of methods for computing dropout rates, using dropout rates which are real and which were available at the end of the 1986-1987 school year. Fall enrollment, average daily membership, and total…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Dropout Rate, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
