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Peer reviewedWillett, John B.; Singer, Judith D. – Review of Educational Research, 1991
This article shows how the methods of survival analysis (also known as event history analysis) lend themselves to the study of the timing of educational events. Using examples from teacher attrition and student dropout research, survival methods are introduced for building statistical models of the risk of event occurrence over time. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Careers, Data Collection, Dropout Research, Educational Research
Peer reviewedAnderson, Douglas K. – American Sociological Review, 1993
Comments on "The Timing of a First Birth and High School Completion" (Dawn M. Upchurch and James McCarthy) (1990). In considering relationships between adolescent childbearing and completion of high school, Upchurch and McCarthy misinterpret socioeconomic data. Their conclusion that young mothers are no less likely to graduate from high school is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Research
