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  title info:
    title: Profile of the school dropout
    sub title: perceptions of the early school leaver
  name:
    name part: Steele, Douglas Lee
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Briers, Gary
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Ladewig, Howard
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Seaman, Don
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Stone, Barbara
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1992
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 152 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: The dilemma of high school dropouts has achieved unprecedented urgency at national, state, and local levels. Educators continually attempt to define the role of the public school system in interpreting, evaluating, and reporting the causes and consequences of leaving school prior to graduation. The purposes of this research were: (1) to examine to what extent family background characteristics may influence a student's decision to drop out of school; (2) to determine what effect school interactions and academic performance had on the ultimate decision to leave school; (3) to examine the social relationships of the student to determine how they may have influenced the decision to leave school; and, (4) to determine if the reasons for quitting school, as perceived by the dropout, are singularly unique to the individual or common within the sample population. Fifty-one students who had previously dropped out of high school, but were currently enrolled in an alternative educational center, were personally interviewed with a questionnaire developed by the researcher. Data analysis included the descriptive statistics of frequency distributions, percentages, mean scores, standard deviations, and relationships between variables. The researcher concluded that there is no one single variable, or group of variables, that can be used to predict whether a student will drop out in all situations. Each student is uniquely individual; however, certain variables can provide warnings of potential dropouts. Irregular attendance patterns, being consistently late for school, and low levels of educational attainment by parents were indicators constant across the sample population. Pregnancy and/or marriage were the highest rated indicators for females, while work or failing grades were most common among males.
  note: "Major subject: Adult and Extension Education."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1992
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Dropout behavior, Prediction of
  subject:
    topic: High school dropouts
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Major adult and extension education
  subject:
    topic: High school dropouts
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1292994
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 930326
    record change date: 20220103135007.0
    record identifier: in00001127399
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng