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Natasha Murray; Xin Ma; Kenneth Tyler – Educational Studies, 2024
We aimed to identify individual (family) and school protective factors that are critical to academic success among African American students, using Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory. A total of 2020 African American students in 463 schools from the Educational Longitudinal Study provided data. We developed a multilevel logistic model…
Descriptors: High School Students, African American Students, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
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Xin Ma; Xingkai Luo – Evaluation Review, 2024
With an educational issue that has caught the attention of many countries in the world (study load), a population of 8th graders from a typical Chinese metropolitan city (40,536 from 118 schools), and an advanced statistical strategy (multilevel piecewise regression), we examined whether there was a turning point in terms of the effects of study…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Study Habits, Middle School Students, Grade 8