132. Staying in School: Connection and Cohesiveness as Protection Against Suspension

School choice advocates maintain that parents who choose their schools will be involved. This study asks: (a) What are the characteristics of families who prefer different types of choice arrangements and what are their reasons for choosing? (b) How are parents involved in their children’s education under different types of choice arrangements? (c) How do schools respond to parents under different types of choice arrangements? Findings reveal that religion, income, and ethnicity are important in understanding parents’ reasons for school choice and that school type is a major factor in understanding the relationships between parent involvement and school responsiveness.

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The School Connection

Emergency Medicine News ◽

10.1097/00132981-200302000-00038 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 37

Author(s):

Ruth SoRelle

Keyword(s):

School Connection

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54. School Connection as a Protective Factor Against Problem Substance Use Among Street-involved Youth: A Sequential Mixed-methods Study

Journal of Adolescent Health ◽

10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.10.058 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. S29

Author(s):

Robert Rivers ◽

Elizabeth Saewyc ◽

Jim Frankish ◽

Curren Warf

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Mixed Methods ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

Sequential Mixed Methods ◽

School Connection

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The School Connection Scale: A Factor Analysis

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.2000.87.3.851 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 87 (3) ◽

pp. 851-858 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Randall A. Brown ◽

Geoffrey K. Leigh ◽

Keith Barton

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Social Behavior ◽

Focus Groups ◽

Recent Work ◽

Social System ◽

Important Predictor ◽

Structural Validity ◽

School Connection ◽

Original Scale

An individual's feeling of connection with a social system has been viewed by diverse traditions as an important predictor of social behavior. While some of these theoretical traditions have conceptualized and assessed a feeling of connection as a global phenomenon, more recent work has focused on the development of measures for separate contexts in which connection occurs. Using a diverse sample of 1,739 adolescents, this study examined an original scale designed specifically to assess youth's feeling of connection with school. Intercorrelations among scales were factor analyzed to examine the structural validity of elements developed from the literature and focus groups of students. The results yield for the School Connection Scale three subscales on which scores were reliable and valid and account for 49.5% of the variance.

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