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A New Lens on High School Dropout: Use of Correspondence Analysis and the Statewide Longitudinal Data System
- Source :
- The American Statistician. 72:191-198
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2018.
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Abstract
- The combination of log-linear models and correspondence analysis have long been used to decompose contingency tables and aid in their interpretation. Until now, this approach has not been applied to the education Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS), which contains administrative school data at the student level. While some research has been conducted using the SLDS, its primary use is for state education administrative reporting. This article uses the combination of log-linear models and correspondence analysis to gain insight into high school dropouts in two discrete regions in Kentucky, Appalachia and non-Appalachia, defined by the American Community Survey. The individual student records from the SLDS were categorized into one of the two regions and a log-linear model was used to identify the interactions between the demographic characteristics and the dropout categories, push-out and pull-out. Correspondence analysis was then used to visualize the interactions with the expanded push-out categories, boredom, course selection, expulsion, failing grade, teacher conflict, and pull-out categories, employment, family problems, illness, marriage, and pregnancy to provide insights into the regional differences. In this article, we demonstrate that correspondence analysis can extend the insights gained from SDLS data and provide new perspectives on dropouts. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
- Subjects :
- Statistics and Probability
Contingency table
Longitudinal data
Computer science
General Mathematics
05 social sciences
050301 education
Correspondence analysis
law.invention
School dropout
Lens (optics)
law
0502 economics and business
Econometrics
Computer Science::Programming Languages
Log-linear model
050207 economics
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
0503 education
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15372731 and 00031305
- Volume :
- 72
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The American Statistician
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....86ee548977a41ae72b9e708a863cb3d6