First-year performance is treated as important enough that graduates are attributed to their first-enrolled high school¶

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Currency · newest study 2003 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Because first-year performance matters, students are counted as graduates of the high school they first enrolled in, not the one they ultimately graduated from. → Miller 2003

Evidence¶

Miller 2003¶

Miller, Shazia Rafiullah; Luppescu, Stuart; Correa, Macarena. (2003). How Well Do Vivaldi Students Succeed After Elementary School? (Unit 8888). Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/how-well-do-vivaldi-students-succeed-after-elementary-school

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Methodological statement in the school-level outcomes report explaining how graduation attribution is assigned for the class leaving eighth grade in 1997. The report's rule is that students "are considered graduates of the high school at which they first enrolled."

"Because of the importance of first year performance, students are considered graduates of the high school at which they first enrolled, not the school from which they ultimately graduated."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Ninth-grade GPA strongly predicts on-time high school graduation, with an especially large gap between F and D students — related
• Vivaldi first-year on-track counts fluctuated between 24 and 31 across the classes of 1997–2001 — related