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The Quality of Vocational Education, June 1998

Table 3.2.—Dropout rates in studies with different methods of track definition


Study Database Academic General Vocational Nonvocational

I. Self-report of track membership in base survey

Peng & Takai, 1983 HSB 4% 13% 15%   11%
Coombs & Cooley, 1968 Project
Talent
15%* 21%

II. Self-report of track membership in follow-up survey
Weber, 1988 HSB 3% 21% 16% 11%
Coombs &  Cooley, 1968 Project
Talent
24%* 11%

III. Track membership determined from course selections
Catterall & Stern, 1986, Table I HSB 10% 12%
Catterall & Stern, 1986, Table II HSB 5% 12%

*Classified here as general students are all nonvocational students who did not go on to college.

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