EXAMINING POTENTIAL BIAS IN SCREENING MEASURES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS BY SPECIAL EDUCATION AND LOW SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS SUBGROUPS

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 533-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan A. Stevenson ◽  
Deborah K. Reed ◽  
Elizabeth L. Tighe
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Special Education ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Potential Bias ◽  
School Students ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Screening Measures

Academic Interventions for Elementary and Middle School Students With Low Socioeconomic Status: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Dietrichson ◽  
Martin Bøg ◽  
Trine Filges ◽  
Anne-Marie Klint Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
School Students ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Elementary And Middle School

Socioeconomic status is a major predictor of educational achievement. This systematic review and meta-analysis seeks to identify effective academic interventions for elementary and middle school students with low socioeconomic status. Included studies have used a treatment-control group design, were performed in OECD and EU countries, and measured achievement by standardized tests in mathematics or reading. The analysis included 101 studies performed during 2000 to 2014, 76% of which were randomized controlled trials. The effect sizes (ES) of many interventions indicate that it is possible to substantially improve educational achievement for the target group. Intervention components such as tutoring (ES = 0.36), feedback and progress monitoring (ES = 0.32), and cooperative learning (ES = 0.22) have average ES that are educationally important, statistically significant, and robust. There is also substantial variation in effect sizes, within and between components, which cannot be fully explained by observable study characteristics.

Dimensions of Causality as a Function of Socioeconomic Status in a Sample of Portuguese Adolescents

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 827-832
Author(s):  
Luísa Faria
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
The Other ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
High Socioeconomic Status ◽  
School Students ◽  
Locus Of Causality ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Portuguese Adolescents

This study explored dimensions of locus of causality, stability, and controllability, of several sources for success and failure, classified by subjects as a function of their socioeconomic status. The sample included 1,320 Portuguese high school students, from high, middle, and low socioeconomic status who classified 17 causes for success and failure according to their meaning on the three dimensions. Analysis showed students from families of low socioeconomic status perceived causes related to ability, effort, and motivation as more unstable than subjects from families of middle and high socioeconomic status, and students from families of high socioeconomic status perceived causes related to ability as more internal than the other two groups.

How communication with teachers, family and friends contributes to predicting climate change behaviour among adolescents

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
RENE X. VALDEZ ◽  
M. NILS PETERSON ◽  
KATHRYN T. STEVENSON
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
School Students ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Climate Change Concern ◽  
Item Scale

SUMMARYEngaging adolescents is critical to encouraging future climate change adaptation and mitigation behaviours. Adolescents are typically more receptive to climate change messages than adults, but educators and communicators need research-based strategies for optimizing engagement, including information about what factors are most influential in changing behaviours. To better understand how communication with teachers, friends and family, climate change knowledge and climate change concern predict climate change behaviour, we administered a survey to a random sample of middle school students in North Carolina, USA (n = 1371). We measured climate change behaviour with a multi-item scale asking respondents about energy conservation, alternative transportation and engagement with environmental issues. We found that climate change concern and discussing climate change with family and friends predicted climate change behaviour. We also found that students from urban, high socioeconomic status schools were more likely to engage in climate change behaviour than students in urban, low socioeconomic status schools or rural schools. These results suggest that education efforts should leverage communication with family and friends in programming designed to encourage climate change behaviour. Further, efforts to promote climate change behaviour among low socioeconomic status urban and rural adolescents may be warranted, but would benefit from further investigation into the ideological, physical and knowledge-based drivers of behaviour differences documented in this study.

scholarly journals Effect of Socio Economic Status on Academic Performance of Secondary School Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat ◽  
Dr. Jyotsna Joshi ◽  
Irfan Ahmad Wani
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
School Students ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Significant Difference

Aim: – The most important task of the educational system is to prepare students to acquire knowledge and career and cognitive skills to enter the community. Therefore, identifying the factors leading to the students’ academic achievement is very important. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between socio economic status and academic achievement of secondary school students belonging to different educational zones of Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir State. Methods: – This descriptive analytical study was done on 120 students of secondary Schools in 2012-13 through random sampling. Socio economic status scale constructed and standardized by Rajbir Singh et al., and Previous Academic Progress Record from schools were used to collect data. Data were analyzed by using Mean, S.D, M.D and students t-test. Results: – Result proves it beyond any shadow of doubt that there is a significant difference in the academic achievement of high socioeconomic status of students in comparison to low socioeconomic status of students. Significant differences were found between the students with (high and low) and (high and middle) socioeconomic status. On the other hand insignificant difference was found between the students with middle and low socioeconomic status in respect to academic achievement.

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