Slippery Dropouts

Autor/in	Lewis, Anne C.
Titel	Slippery Dropouts
Quelle	In: Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 69 (2004) 6, S.69-70 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-127X
Schlagwörter	Dropouts; Dropout Rate; Graduation Rate; High School Students; Validity; Data Collection; Definitions + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Gültigkeit; Data capture; Datensammlung; Begriffsbestimmung
Abstract	With the reality that school districts and states are now being required to report high school graduation rates under the "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) Act, the accuracy of dropout data is becoming a major issue. For more than a decade, the official dropout figures came from a consensus definition used by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which relies on both household surveys and data from the states in order to report on high school dropouts and high school completers. Here, the author discusses some problems that evolved. One problem is that, some states do not conform to the common dropout definition utilized by NCES. Some of the states which were left out of its calculations have large enrollments. Also, the national data are clouded because some states consider students who are in adult GED programs as being enrolled in school, while the NCES definition considers them to be dropouts. Another problem is an imprecise definition of dropouts which was actually issued by the U.S. Department of Education as the guide to be utilized for state plans. Among other things, the author mentions that experts are to review all of the definitions and processes for collecting data and then make recommendations for improving data collection. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10