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The Quality of Vocational Education, June 1998

Table 9.--Second stage of two-stage least squares regression analysis of 12th-grade achievement on 10th-grade reading achievement, vocational course carnegie units, academic course carnegie units, and background characteristics, dropouts

  Coefficient Standard
Error		 p
Intercept 8.835 6.265 0.161
10TH-GRADE MATH ACHIEVEMENT 0.843 0.163 0.000
AGRICULTURE -1.499 3.179 0.638
BUSINESS 0.905 1.248 0.470
CONSUMER/HOMEMAKING EDUCATION -2.020 1.213 0.098
GENERAL LABOR MARKET PREPARATION -0.141 1.260 0.911
HEALTH OCCUPATIONS -14.757 5.037 0.004
SPECIFIC LABOR MARKET PREPARATION 3.957 1.982 0.048
MARKETING/DISTRIBUTION -0.961 2.313 0.679
OCCUPATIONAL HOME ECONOMICS 0.696 0.955 0.467
TECHNICAL/COMMUNICATIONS -2.936 2.274 0.199
TRADE/INDUSTRIAL -0.902 0.853 0.292
ALGEBRA I -0.038 2.449 0.988
ALGEBRA II -2.266 2.854 0.429
APPLIED MATH-B 3.768 2.687 0.163
BASIC MATH -0.824 3.800 0.829
BIOLOGY -2.890 1.471 0.051
CALCULUS 24.061 5.247 0.000
CHEMISTRY 1.663 3.160 0.600
COMPUTER MATH -0.866 1.987 0.664
ENGLISH 0.178 1.211 0.883
FINE ARTS 0.319 1.180 0.787
FOREIGN LANGUAGE -3.621 1.872 0.055
GEOMETRY 3.470 2.467 0.162
GENERAL MATH 3.093 2.289 0.179
PRE-ALGEBRA 5.626 2.476 0.025
PRE-CALCULUS 0.000 4.933 1.000
PERSONAL USE/OTHER -0.636 1.037 0.541
PHYSICS -18.241 6.626 0.007
SURVEY AND OTHER SCIENCE 2.481 1.750 0.159

SOURCE: NELS:88 Second follow-up transcript study

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