The Development of a Screening Tool for Junior High Potential Dropouts

Therefore, it is important to investigate how to prevent school dropouts. One of the most fundamental strategies is to find out those students who have high probability of dropping out of school before graduation.

A number of studies have done to identify possible factors that influence school dropout. The factors examined include school-, family-, personal-, & social-related factors. The goal of this project is to develop a reliable and valid screening instrument for prediction of junior high school dropout, and also to estabilish local norm and cutoff scores.