Switching Schools: Revisiting the Relationship Between School Mobility and High School Dropout
Switching Schools: Revisiting the Relationship Between School Mobility and High School Dropout
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DOI：
10.3102/0002831211415250
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发表时间：
2012-06-01
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3.6
通讯作者：
Estacion, Angela
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作者：
Gasper, Joseph;DeLuca, Stefanie;Estacion, Angela
转学的年轻人更有可能表现出一系列负面的行为和教育结果，包括高中辍学。然而，转校是否真的会使青年面临辍学的风险还不确定，因为转校的青年在以前的学校成绩和参与程度方面与辍学者相似，这表明转校可能是导致辍学的脱离接触的长期发展过程的一部分。利用1997年全国青年纵向调查的数据，本研究采用倾向分数匹配配对的青年谁交换高中与类似的青年谁留在同一所学校。我们发现，虽然超过一半的转换学校和辍学之间的关联是由观察到的特征之前，九年级，转换学校仍然与辍学。此外，转学和辍学之间的关系因青年人转学的倾向而异。
Youth who switch schools are more likely to demonstrate a wide array of negative behavioral and educational outcomes, including dropping out of high school. However, whether switching schools actually puts youth at risk for dropout is uncertain, since youth who switch schools are similar to dropouts in their levels of prior school achievement and engagement, which suggests that switching schools may be part of the same long-term developmental process of disengagement that leads to dropping out. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this study uses propensity score matching to pair youth who switched high schools with similar youth who stayed in the same school. We find that while over half the association between switching schools and dropout is explained by observed characteristics prior to ninth grade, switching schools is still associated with dropout. Moreover, the relationship between switching schools and dropout varies depending on a youth's propensity for switching schools.