Analyzing the Longitudinal K-12 Grading Histories of Entire Cohorts of Students: Grades, Data Driven Decision Making, Dropping out and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis.

By Alex J. Bowers. 2010

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Education, Information Systems and Management

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What's in a grade? The multidimensional nature of what teacher-assigned grades assess in high school (2011, background): “…out or graduate from high school (Allensworth & Easton, 2007; Balfanz, Herzog, & Mac Iver, 2007; Barclay & Doll, 2001; Barrington & Hendricks, 1989; Bowers, 2009, 2010a, 2010b; Bowers & Sprott, in press; Ekstrom, Goertz, Pollack, & Rock, 1986; Ensminger & Slusarcick, 1992; Fitzsimmons, Cheever,…”
Analyzing undergraduate students' performance using educational data mining (2017, methodology): “An investigation that has strong connection with our work is given in Bower (2010).”
Do We Know Who Will Drop Out?: A Review of the Predictors of Dropping out of High School: Precision, Sensitivity, and Specificity (2013, background): “…0.572 0.791 0.153 0.946 0.054 12 6 Any three flags 12037 0.572 0.863 0.078 0.983 0.017 13 6 All four flags 12037 0.572 0.923 0.044 0.995 0.005 14 Bowers (2010b) 7–12 Retention, student ever retained in any grade level 193 0.244 0.909 0.426 0.986 0.014 15 7–12 Low noncumulative GPA (D or…”
A Century of Grading Research (2016, unknown): “Focusing on modeling conditional risk, Bowers (2010b) found the strongest predictor of dropping out after grade retention was having D and F grades.”
Examining the Impact of Policy and Practice Interventions on High School Dropout and School Completion Rates (2015, unknown): “(Bowers, 2010a, 2010b; Bowers et al., 2013; Fortin, Marcotte, Potvin, Royer, & Joly, 2006; Janosz, Archambault, Morizot, & Pagani, 2008; Janosz, LeBlanc, Boulerice, & Tremblay, 2000; Lessard et al., 2008).”
Why Tenth Graders Fail to Finish High School: A Dropout Typology Latent Class Analysis (2012, background): “…out that students incur during grades 7 through 9, especially in the transition from grade 8 to grade 9 (Alexander, Entwisle, & Kabbani, 2001; Allensworth & Easton, 2007; Balfanz, Herzog, & MacIver, 2007; Bowers, 2010b; Cohen & Smerdon, 2009; Neild, 2009; Roderick & Camburn, 1999; Rumberger, 1995).”