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Title: Switching High Schools: Cause of Dropping Out or Symptom of Disengagement?
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Gasper, Joseph Michael Deluca, Stefanie Estacion, Angela |
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Switching High Schools: Cause of Dropping Out or Symptom of Disengagement? Presented: Denver, CO, American Educational Research Association, May 3, 2010. Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Educational Research Association Keyword(s): Behavioral Differences; Educational Outcomes; High School; High School Dropouts; Propensity Scores Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Numerous studies demonstrate that youth who switch schools for reasons other than grade promotion are more likely to demonstrate a wide array of negative behavioral and educational outcomes, including dropping out of high school. However, whether switching schools puts youth at risk for dropping out of high school is uncertain, since youth who switch schools are similar to high school dropouts in terms of their levels of prior school achievement and engagement, which suggests that switching schools may be caused by the same long-term developmental process of disengagement that leads to dropping out. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), this study uses propensity score matching techniques to pair youth who switched high schools with similar youth who stayed in the same high school. We find that while over half the association between switching high schools on dropout can be explained by observed characteristics prior to 9th grade, switching high schools still has an effect on dropout. Moreover, this effect seems to vary, depending on a youth's propensity for switching high schools. Suggestions for future research are discussed. |
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Gasper, Joseph Michael, Stefanie Deluca and Angela Estacion. "Switching High Schools: Cause of Dropping Out or Symptom of Disengagement?" Presented: Denver, CO, American Educational Research Association, May 3, 2010. |