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Yarnell, Lisa M.; Bohrnstedt, George W. – American Educational Research Journal, 2018
This study examines student-teacher "racial match" for its association with Black student achievement. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to analyze 2013 National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) Grade 4 Reading Assessment data to examine interactions of teacher race and student race in their associations with…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Educational Policy
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DeAngelo, Linda; Franke, Ray – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
Completing college is now the minimum threshold for entry into the middle class. This has pushed college readiness issues to the forefront in efforts to increase educational attainment. Little is known about how college readiness improves outcomes for students traditionally marginalized in educational settings or if social background factors…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, College Readiness, College Freshmen, School Holding Power
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Demanet, Jannick; Van Houtte, Mieke – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
We examine the association between grade retention and the number of same-grade friendships. Moreover, we investigate the effect of a school's proportion of retained students on these friendships and the moderating effect of this school characteristic on the relationship between retention and the number of same-grade friendships. Multilevel…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Grade Repetition, Friendship, Peer Acceptance
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Skiba, Russell J.; Chung, Choong-Geun; Trachok, Megan; Baker, Timberly L.; Sheya, Adam; Hughes, Robin L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
In the context of a national conversation about exclusionary discipline, we conducted a multilevel examination of the relative contributions of infraction, student, and school characteristics to rates of and racial disparities in out-of-school suspension and expulsion. Type of infraction; race, gender, and to a certain extent socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Discipline, Expulsion, Suspension, Disproportionate Representation
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Sadler, Philip M.; Sonnert, Gerhard; Coyle, Harold P.; Cook-Smith, Nancy; Miller, Jaimie L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
This study examines the relationship between teacher knowledge and student learning for 9,556 students of 181 middle school physical science teachers. Assessment instruments based on the National Science Education Standards with 20 items in common were administered several times during the school year to both students and their teachers. For items…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Middle School Students
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Ladd, Gary W.; Kochenderfer-Ladd, Becky; Visconti, Kari Jeanne; Ettekal, Idean; Sechler, Casey M.; Cortes, Khaerannisa I. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
Little is known about the skills children need to successfully collaborate with classmates on academic assignments. The purposes of this study were to identify grade-schoolers' collaborative skills, evaluate the importance of identified skills for collaborative work, and determine whether differences in skill use were related to children's social…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Cooperation, Elementary School Students, Academic Ability