2. strength_and_difficulties_questionnaire_s.pdf
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… A growing body of research suggests that dropping out is but the final stage in a dynamic and cumulative process of disengagement from school.(6) Many factors have been proven predictive of school dropout, with most of them having a long exposure before the dropout happens. A substantial body of research has been done in US context, as well as in a few European countries.(7) Known predictors of dropout include family and neighborhood socio-economic status, academic achievement throughout the school years, school and teacher support, behavioral problems, and physical and psychological health problems.(7, 8) When recognized early, some factors can be amended (e.g. additional support with educational load) or the negative impact of non-modifiable factors can be reduced (e.g. engaging the child from deprived families in structural social and sport … counts (Figure S1, left). The AUC value of this model was 0.697 (Figure 1) indicating that in approx. 70% of cases that model could provide an accurate prediction of future drop out. Sensitivity and specificity trade-off is presented in figure S2 (online appendix). Positive and negative predictive values for the two potential cut-offs (0.07 and 0.20, with range being 0.01-0.44) are presented in Table 5. SDQ have resulted in slight improvement of the prediction properties of the model (AUC …