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A Predictive Model for Retention at a Community College Using Non-Intellectual Variables.

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Rowe, Fred A.; Smith, Nancy M. – College and University, 1990

The Work Values Inventory and Self-Directed Search were used to predict retention of students in office occupation majors at Utah Valley Community College. The predictive model distinguished among students either retained (graduated, on-track, and "jobbed-out") and noncompleters. Noncompletion was correctly predicted for about 73 percent…

Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropouts, Higher Education, Models

Prediction of School Dropouts in Appalachia: Validation of a Dropout Scale

Smith, John E.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1971

The purpose of this study was to construct a scale to discriminate between those students who are likely to drop out of school and those who are not. The results indicate that this must be only the first of many steps. (Author)

Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Educational Research

Use of Predictive Characteristics Derived From One High School to Identify Dropouts at Another School. Final Report.

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Walters, Nancy R. – 1969

The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics which describe high school dropouts. The investigation attempted to identify variables which would assist in differentiating persisters and withdrawals at Northeast High School in Kansas City, Missouri and in predicting dropouts at East High School on the basis of variable weightings drawn…

Descriptors: Continuation Students, Discriminant Analysis, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention