Nearly 50 per cent of the non-failing
drop-outs occur under age 16, but not 20 per cent of the failing
non-graduates are gone by that age. The percentage of drop-outs is
higher for older pupils.
REFERENCES:
5. Kelley, T.L. "A Study of High School and University Grades, with
Reference to Their Intercorrelation and the Causes of Elimination,"
_Journal of Educational Psychology_, 6:365.
6. Johnson, G.R. "Qualitative Elimination in High School," _School
Review_, 18:680.
7. Bliss, D.C. "High School Failures," _Educational Administration and
Supervision_, Vol. 3.
8. Strayer, G.D., Coffman, L.D., Prosser, C.A. _Report of a Survey of
the School System of St. Paul, Minnesota_.
9. Meredith, A.B. _Survey of the St. Louis Public Schools_, 1917, Vol.
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10. _Annual Report of the Board of Education, Paterson, New Jersey_,
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11. Bobbitt, J.F. _Report of the School Survey of Denver_, 1916.
12. Strayer, G.D. _A Survey of the Public Schools of Butte_, 1914.
13. Rounds, C.R., Kingsbury, H.B. "Do Too Many Students Fail?" _School
Review_, 21:585.
CHAPTER III
WHAT BASIS IS DISCOVERABLE FOR PROGNOSTICATING THE OCCURRENCE OF OR THE
NUMBER OF FAILURES?
1. ATTENDANCE, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DEFECTS, AND SIZE OF CLASSES ARE
POSSIBLE FACTORS
Any definite factors available for the school that have a prognostic
value in reference to school failures will help to perform a function
quite comparable to the science of preventive medicine in its field,
and in contrast with the older art of doctoring the malady after it has
been permitted to develop.
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