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ERIC Number: EJ512946
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Dropping Out of Middle School: A Multilevel Analysis of Students and Schools.
Rumberger, Russell W.
American Educational Research Journal, v32 n3 p583-625 Fall 1995
Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 with hierarchical linear modeling, this study identified individual-level and school-level variables influencing the decision to drop out of middle school. At the individual level, grade retention is the single most powerful predictor. (SLD)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Grade Repetition, Institutional Characteristics, Middle Schools, National Surveys, Predictor Variables, Student Characteristics
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Multilevel Analysis; National Education Longitudinal Study 1988
Note: Section on teaching, learning, and human development. Version of an article presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 20-24, 1992). Research supported by a grant from the American Educational Research Association with funds from the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Education Statistics.