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Direct linkStrand, Steve – Review of Education, 2016
Relatively little research has explored whether schools differ in their effectiveness for different group of pupils (e.g. by ethnicity, poverty or gender), for different curriculum subjects (e.g. English, mathematics or science) or over time (different cohorts). This paper uses multilevel modelling to analyse the national test results at age 7 and…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Children, Elementary School Students
Download full textMurphy, Carolyn Colvin; Shell, Duane F. – 1989
A study examined how self-efficacy, causal attribution, and outcome expectancy beliefs are related to reading and writing for ethnically diverse college freshmen and whether the patterns of belief-performance relationships for ethnically diverse students are similar to those found for white, middle class populations. Subjects in the ethnic sample…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Blacks, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedFreedman, David A.; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1991
The use of ecological regression in voting rights cases is discussed in the context of a lawsuit against Los Angeles County (California) in 1990. Ecological regression assumes that systematic voting differences between precincts are explained by ethnic differences. An alternative neighborhood model is shown to lead to different conclusions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Blacks, Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedGosman, Erica J.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1983
In a study of college student retention and progression, significant differences were found between black and white students in terms of their attrition rates, overall progression rates, and tendency to follow the prescribed progression pattern. When other student and institutional characteristics are statistically controlled, racial differences…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Blacks, College Students
Marcum, John P. – 1977
Focusing on blacks, the study examined the effect of neighborhood racial composition on the relationship between socioeconomic status and current fertility. The sample of 611 black and 5,027 white once-married women aged 20-29 living with their husbands was drawn from the neighborhood characteristics files of the 1970 Public Use Samples of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Birth Rate, Blacks
Peer reviewedJoseph, Janice – Journal of Black Studies, 1995
Compared the involvement of black males and females in delinquency and examined the explanatory value of variables drawn from three traditional theories of delinquency (social control, structural strain, and differential association) for understanding delinquency among blacks. Results show that only two variables, attachment to school and…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Blacks, Causal Models, College Students
