9. Conclusion and recommendations
By engaging the stakeholders in a disciplined dialogue, the
Evart school district enabled them to derive a large
number of factors (35), clarify their meanings (Table 2),
identify those of higher relative importance (Table 3), and
derive graphic patterns displaying the similarity (Figure 1),
and enhancement relationships among the important
factors (Figures 2). The disciplined virtual (Wiki) and face
to face dialogue made it possible for the participants to
discover the root causes of the issue of Drop Out for the
Evart school district. The stakeholders were also able to
recognize the complexity and multi-dimensionality of the
problem situation confronting the Evart community.