Abstract
To compare the magnitude of five factors contributing to school dropout by means of meta-analysis, 865 effect sizes were calculated from statistical data in 23 studies. In average, the five factors (low demographic characteristics, poor family socialization, poor school socialization, personal problems, and bonding to antisocial peers) contributed to high school dropout with a grand mean effect sizes of 0.37, ranging from 0.20 to 0.44, whereas the poor school performance of the factor “personal problems” was the distinctive subcategory that had a large effect size (0.96). It seems that influences of different factors may accumulate in the poor academic performance that alone or in accompany with other factors leads to dropping out of school. The result of the present study implies that remedial measurements to improve the school performance of a student at risk of dropout should be the first priority for the prevention of dropout.
| Keywords: | school dropout; meta-analysis; school performance |
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