COMPLETION AND ATTRITION IN ADULT BASIC EDUCATION - A TEST OF 2 PRAGMATIC PREDICTION MODELS

Previous research within the comparative tradition suggests that age a nd academic ability of ABE participants are related to attrition. Info rmation on these variables is easily obtained by ABE practitioners and could be used to identify those at risk of leaving the program before completing their goals. No single measure of these variables alone, h owever, has been able to adequately identify those at risk. This study tested, through discriminant analyses, two prediction models which us ed the combined ability of age and entry-level reading and math scores to differentiate between completing and noncompleting students.