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Autor/in | Coldarci, Theodore |
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Titel | Do Smaller Schools Really Reduce the "Power Rating" of Poverty? |
Quelle | In: Rural Educator, 28 (2006) 1, S.1-8 (10 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0273-446X |
Schlagwörter | Poverty; Reading Achievement; Mathematics Achievement; Academic Achievement; School Size; Small Schools; Socioeconomic Influences; Correlation; Grade 8; Public Schools; Maine |
Abstract | The percentage of variance in student achievement that is explained by student SES--"poverty's power rating," as some call it--tends to be less among smaller schools than among larger schools. Smaller schools, we are told, are able to somehow disrupt the association between SES and student achievement. Using eighth-grade data for 215 public schools in Maine, I explored the hypothesis that this finding is in part a statistical artifact of the lower reliability of school-aggregated student achievement in smaller schools. This hypothesis was supported for mathematics achievement but seemingly not for reading achievement. Implications are discussed. (Contains 3 tables and 4 figures.) (Author). |
Anmerkungen | National Rural Education Association. Rural Educator, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 453002, Las Vegas, NV 89154-3002. Tel: 702-895-3478; Fax: 702-895-3492; e-mail: ruraleducator@ccmail.nevada.edu; Web site: http://www.unlv.edu/journals/ruraleducator/ |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2017/4/10 |