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When Do Students in Low-SES Schools Perform Better-Than- Expected on a High-Stakes Test? Analyzing School, Teacher, Teaching, and Professional Development Characteristics

– The analyses indicated that districts per-student funding allocations, the days of instruction, teachers’ knowledge and experience, and some aspects of teachers’ professional development participation were significantly associated with student performance on AP science examinations that was better than predicted by students’ Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) scores.

– Districts’ per-student total funding allocations and the length of the school year have positive significant associations with students’ AP performance gains.

– Teachers’ knowledge and experience had positive significant associations with students’ AP performance gains. Therefore, incentivizing experienced and skilled teachers to be recruited and retained within low-SES urban schools (and schools with urban characteristics) should be further explored.

– Participation in Professional Development(PD) activities that teachers rated as effective for helping them teach redesigned AP science courses and participation in unconventional face-to-face PD activities such as teacher-initiated meetings, mentoring or coaching activities, and conference participations were positively and significantly associated with students’ AP performance gains

Exploring the Foundations of the Future STEM Workforce: K-12 Indicators of Postsecondary STEM Success

  1. What K-12 indicators predict postsecondary STEM success?
  2. To what extent do K-12 indicators of postsecondary STEM success differ for Hispanic and non-Hispanic students?

Gender Differences in Learning Outcomes from the College Experiences of Engineering Students

1) How do curricular emphases differently affect engineering learning outcomes by gender? 2) How do instructional approaches differently affect engineering learning outcomes by gender? 3) How does participation in co-curricular experiences differently affect engineering learning outcomes by gender?

Narrowing Pathways? Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of Postsecondary STEM Preparation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

What geographical factors are associated with the postsecondary STEM preparation of students from underrepresented groups in the School District of Philadelphia from middle to high school?

The Role of School Performance in Narrowing Gender Gaps in the Formation of STEM Aspirations: A Cross-National Study

To determine whether the school context is related to the gender gap in STEM aspirations cross-culturally.

The High School Environment and the Gender Gap in Science and Engineering

Extend existing explanations for gender differences in plans of pursuing STEM degrees and examine the role of the high school context.

Examining the Tracks that Cause Derailment: Institutional Contexts and Engineering Degree Attainments

1) What factors contribute to completing an engineering degree within five years? 2) What factors contribute to students switching out of the engineering program?

Exposure to Classroom Poverty and Test Score Achievement: Contextual Effects or Selection?

How does exposure to classroom poverty affect student test achievement?

Determining the Effects of Pre-College STEM Contexts on STEM Major Choices in 4-Year Postsecondary Institutions Using Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling

1) To investigate the influence of computer-based learning activities in math classrooms on STEM major choices in 4-year post-secondary institutions and 2) to analyze the extent to which math teacher motivation affects math performance and math self-efficacy across schools, which plays a vital role in students’ STEM major selection.

Family and Contextual Socioeconomic Effects Across Seasons: When Do they Matter for the Achievement Growth of Young Children?

School & neighborhood contexts influence on differences in children’s achievement growth during the kindergarten and first-grade years across seasons.

Family, Neighborhood, and School Settings Across Seasons: When Do Socioeconomic Context and Racial Composition Matter for the Reading Achievement Growth of Young Children?

Assess the degree to which social context and race/ethnic composition- in neighborhoods and schools- affect the reading achievement growth of young children.

Examining the Effects of High School Contexts on Postsecondary Enrollment

1) In what ways do student-level characteristics influence the likelihood of enrolling in a 2 or 4-year postsecondary institution versus no enrollment, controlling for differences across school-level measures of the high school context? 2) In what ways do school-level characteristics influence the likelihood of enrolling in a 2 or 4-year postsecondary institution versus no enrollment, controlling for differences in student-level characteristics? 3) Do school-level measures have an effect above and beyond their corresponding student-level measures?

School Composition and Context Factors that Moderate and Predict 10th-Grade Science Proficiency

Examine the relationship between 10th grade science proficiency and school context factors related to school environment, courses, and teachers.

Academic Achievement in the First Year of College: Evidence of the Pervasive Effects of the High School Context

1) What are the unique effects of students’ demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, precollege academic performance, capital acquisition, and dimensions of the high school context on first year academic performance in college?

2) Do the effects of the high school context differ by students’ demographic or socioeconomic background characteristics?

The Black-White-Other Test Score Gap: Academic Achievement Among Mixed Race Adolescents

Test theories of racial differences in achievement among mono-racial and multi-racial high school students.

School Context and Charter School Achievement: A Framework for Understanding the Performance "Black Box"

Explores the relationship between charter school racial composition, school environments, and student achievement.

Composition Matters: The Relationship Between Race and School Composition in Explaining the Black-White Gap

Uses the institutional perspective to explore Black-White differences in high school course taking.

The Color of the Undergraduate Experience and the Black Self-Concept: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Long-term implications of the racial composition of undergraduate colleges for African-Americans’ self-esteem and self-efficacy.

The Schooling of Children of Immigrants: Contextual Effects on the Educational Attainment of the Second Generation

Examine the effect of the class & ethnic composition of the schools that second-generation youths attend in early adolescence on attainment & drop-out

Closing the Black-White Achievement Gap: Instructional Strategies in Title I Schools

Studies the connection between student achievement in reading & the Black-White achievement gap, emphasizing different instructional strategies.

Segregation and School Violence

Whether desegregation reduces or exacerbates the problem of school violence.

The Effect of Group-level Influences on Pupils' Progress in Reading

Investigates the existence or otherwise of group-level effects on progress in reading.

Cosmopolitan Environments and Adolescents' Gains in Social Studies

Predict how neighborhood characteristics and measures of social problems affect gains on achievement tests between 10th and 12th grades.

The Positive Educational Effects of Racial Diversity on Campus

Link between diversity and positive educational outcomes.

When Desegregation Reduces Interracial Contact: A Class Size Paradox for Weak Ties

Desegregation is sometimes different from and inconsistent with maximizing interracial contact.

Girls' Academic Achievements: Single-Sex Versus Coeducational Schools in Australia

Examines whether type of secondary school attended (sex composition) affects girls’ academic achievements net of other relevant factors.

A Long-Term View of School Desegregation: Some Recent Studies of Graduates as Adults

Evidence that school desegregation leads to desegregation in several areas of adult life.

Assessing School Desegregation Effects: New Direction in Research

Use of social research in public policy deliberation.Effects of elementary-secondary desegregation on the college-going behavior of minority students.

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