Analysis of The Effect of High School Type on the Academic Achievement and Dropout

Abstract

The results from analyzing the academic achievement and dropout of different types of high schools such as regular high schools, autonomous high schools and specialized high schools, there is a significant effect when comparing national levels of academic achievement. Of the specialty schools, foreign language high schools, science high schools, international high schools and autonomous high school, compared to regular high school and other types of high schools, have a positive effect on students with average and above average academic achievement and have a negative effect on students with below average academic Received (June 09, 2015), Review Request(June 10, 2015), Review Result(June 26, 2015) Accepted(July 16, 2015), Published(August 31, 2015) 140-742 School of General Education for Leadership, Sookmyung Women's Univ., Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea email: kcueleeg@nate.com (Corresponding Author) 307-131 General Education, Namseoul University, 91 Daehak-ro Seonghwan-eup Sebuk-gu Cheonan-si Chungcheongnam-do, Korea email: edupro@hanmail.net Analysis of The Effect of High School Type on the Academic Achievement and Dropout Copyright c 2015 HSST 550 achievement. The trend is similar in rates of academic achievement and dropout. Therefore among specialized high schools, foreign language high schools, science high schools, international high schools, and autonomous high schools can be seen as positive effect on the performance of the schools. These conclusions were drawn from 2 years worth of cumulative evaluation results from high schools with their geographical and environmental characteristics controlled. This means the academic achievement of specialty high schools and autonomous high school is consistently higher nationwide compared to regular high schools and other types of high schools.