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Download full textStuit, David; O'Cummings, Mindee; Norbury, Heather; Heppen, Jessica; Dhillon, Sonica; Lindsay, Jim; Zhu, Bo – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2016
In partnership with the Midwest Dropout Prevention Research Alliance the study team used student-level data and a five-step process to identify the most accurate indicators of students' failure to graduate from high school on time. Student-level data came from attendance records, transcripts, and discipline records of grade 8 and 9 students in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Failure, Predictor Variables, Graduation
Stuit, David; Lindsay, Jim; Loney, Emily – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2016
This study analyzed data on students in three Ohio school districts who had completed grades 8 and 9 to determine which data elements were the most accurate indicators of students' failure to graduate from high school on time. The most accurate indicators varied by district and grade level, which underscores the importance of having school systems…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Academic Failure, Graduation, Accuracy
Direct linkSchomburg, Gary; Rippeth, Michelle – Principal Leadership, 2009
Virtual schooling has been touted as one of the best ways to meet the needs of at-risk students, but what happens when a district's virtual education program is unsuccessful? That was the problem in Eastern Local School District, a small rural district in Beaver, Ohio. The district contracted virtual school services and used the virtual school for…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, School Attitudes, Economically Disadvantaged, At Risk Students
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
The "Quantum Opportunity Program" ("QOP") is an intensive and comprehensive program for high school-aged youth that offers case management, mentoring, tutoring, and other education and support services. The program also offers financial incentives for participation in program activities. Participants enter "QOP" in…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Intervention, Incentives, Student Participation
Roby, Douglas E. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2004
The research and analysis completed for this study focuses on one variable and its relationship to student achievement: school wide student attendance. It is a variable that is often overlooked or taken for granted as an interesting but meaningless statistic, however, the positive impact of good school attendance on academic achievement may be…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement, Urban Schools
Lanese, James F. – 1992
To answer several questions about the Ohio statewide high school proficiency testing program, correlations of student performance on the ninth-grade proficiency test with other measures of reading and mathematics were studied for approximately 4,600 students in the Cleveland (Ohio) City School District. The performance of students from higher…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 9
