Suh, Jingyo
Trends Over Time in the High School Dropouts
Proceedings of American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS) 18,1 (February, 2011): 928-944.
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Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences
Keyword(s): High School Dropouts; Higher Education; Regions;

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Over the last three decades, the high school dropout rate declined and the high school completion rate increased. This study identifies causes for the decline in the dropout rate over the periods using decomposition analysis. Traditional cross-section analysis was inadequate to perform this task. Using the two cohort surveys of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) in the 1980s and 2000s, we separated changes in characteristics into two parts: explained change and unexplained change. Results of the research suggest that the common explanations for the characteristic of school dropout account for little of the decline of the rate. Relatively unnoticeable factors such as location and regions contributed to the decline of the dropout rate while socioeconomic, personal, familial factors contributed to increase the dropout rate.

Suh, Suhyun
Suh, Jingyo
Changing Pattern and Process of High School Dropouts between 1980s and 2000s
Educational Research Quarterly 34,4 (June 2011): 3-13
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: School of Education, University of Southern California - Los Angeles
Keyword(s): Family Influences; High School Dropouts; Methods/Methodology; Regions;

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There has been a general decline in the dropout rate and an increase in the high school completion rate over the last three decades. This research investigates causes for the decline in the dropout rate over the periods using decomposition analysis. Traditional cross-section analysis was inadequate to perform this task. Using the two cohort surveys of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) in the 1980s and 2000s, we separated changes in characteristics into two parts: explained change and unexplained change. Results of the research suggest that the common explanations for the characteristic of school dropout account for little of the decline of the rate. Relatively unnoticeable factors such as location and regions contributed to the decline of the dropout rate while socioeconomic, personal, familial factors contributed to increase the dropout rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Suh, Suhyun
Suh, Jingyo
Risk Factors and Levels of Risk for High School Dropouts
Professional School Counseling 10,3 (February 2007): 297-306
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: American School Counselor Association (ASCA)
Keyword(s): GED/General Educational Diploma/General Equivalency Degree/General Educational Development; High School Dropouts;

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The study in this article identifies three major risk categories of high school dropouts and evaluates the impact of possible prevention strategies. As students accumulate these risks, they became more likely to drop out and prevention programs become less effective. Additionally, it was found that factors influencing the decision to drop our vary for different sources of risk, and thus there should be a range of prevention strategies offered to accommodate for this variance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97) database from the U.S. Department of Labor were used in this study. Participants were selected using a nationally representative sample of approximately 9,000 youths who were 12 to 16 years old as of December 31, 1996. The Department of Labor conducted the initial survey (Round 1) in 1997. In that round, both the eligible youth and one of that youth's parents received hour-long personal interviews. Youths have been reinterviewed annually since then. Data from rounds 1-5 of the NLSY97/01 were released in August 2003. The data in this report excluded 2,792 students who either were enrolled in high school or were not enrolled but working toward a General Educational Development (GED) certificate, because they had neither completed high school nor dropped out. Composing the final sample were 3,111 males and 3,081 females who either completed high school or dropped out without receiving a diploma or a GED by December 31, 2000, Among the 6,192 students in the sample, 5,244 completed high school with a diploma or GED, and 948 did not.

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Suh, Suhyun
Suh, Jingyo
Houston, Irene
Predictors of Categorical At-Risk High School Dropouts
Journal of Counseling & Development 85,2 (Spring 2007): 196-203
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Keyword(s): High School Transcripts; School Dropouts; Socioeconomic Factors;

The authors attempted to identify key contributing factors to school dropout among 3 categories of at-risk students: those with low grade point averages, those who had been suspended, and those from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Logistic regression analysis of the data, which were derived from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth--1997 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2002) indicated that student dropout rates were affected differently by students' membership in the 3 at-risk categories [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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