What student and school factors contributed to course failure?
• What school climate factors affected student attendance? This Research Brief summarizes findings from the 2007 Allensworth and Easton study and makes recommendations for supporting students at risk of dropping out of high school. How did course failure, grade point average, and absences predict dropouts? According to the 2005 study, on-track students were three-and-a-half times more likely to graduate from high school in four years than were off-track students. The researchers found that failure of a single course indicated the potential for dropping out. In general, students who failed one course were struggling in all of their courses. Allenworth’s and Easton’s analysis found that there was a strong correlation between course failure and overall GPA. More than 75 percent of students who failed a course in ninth grade had a GPA at or below 2.0, and off-track students typically had a GPA of 1.5 in the courses they passed. For students with no course failures, 62 percent with a 1.5 GP
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