ERIC Number: ED305408
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988-Oct
Pages: 28
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High School Attendance Improvement Dropout Prevention Program: One-Year Follow-Up on the Status of 1985-1986 Participants.
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment.
This study used the cohort method to determine the status of students who participated in the high school Attendance Improvement Dropout Prevention (AIDP) Program in 1985-86, one year later as of June 30, 1987. Among the findings are the following: (1) 41.3 percent had dropped out of school; (2) 7.2 percent had graduated or passed a General Educational Development (GED) test; (3) 7.5 percent had been discharged from the school system either to local private schools or to schools outside of New York City; (4) 39.7 percent were still enrolled in school; (5) 4.3 percent were of unknown status either because of data-entry errors or because no official admission/discharge transactions had been recorded for them; (6) 49.5 percent of students who met AIDP's attendance eligibility criteria, but only 30.5 percent of those who did not meet the criteria, had dropped out of school; and (7) 58.7 percent of a comparison group of non-participants, but only 10.5 percent of the rest of the school, were listed as dropouts. Appendices provide additional data. Data are presented on seven tables and figures. (BJV)
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment.
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: General Educational Development Tests
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