Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ444442
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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The Identification of High-School Dropouts Identified as Learning Disabled: Evaluating the Utility of a Discriminant Analysis Function.
Kortering, Larry; And Others
Exceptional Children, v58 n5 p422-35 Mar-Apr 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 school-initiated interruptions. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Attendance, Classification, Discriminant Analysis, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Ethnic Groups, Expulsion, Family Environment, High Risk Students, High Schools, Identification, Learning Disabilities, Predictor Variables, Reading Ability, Socioeconomic Status, Suspension, Transfer Students
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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