Advancing educational productivity : policy implications from national databases

Advancing Educational Productivity provides a wealth of critical analysis on educational matters at the local, state, national, and international levels. The authors have tackled issues such as educational productivity and achievement and other outcomes; forms of social capital in the home, school,...

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Corporate Author American Educational Research Association Grants Program (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors Paik, Susan J. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2004]
SeriesResearch in educational productivity.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918117035
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-496-0
Physical Description1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and overview / Susan J. Paik
  • Using an educational productivity model to construct process models for mathematics achievement and attitudes among ethnic minorities / John P. Thomas
  • The intended and unintended consequences of high school graduation requirement policy / Peter Teitelbaum
  • African American students' educational outcomes : the role of school relationships / George L. Wimberly
  • The impact of parental involvement and authoritativeness on academic achievement : a cross-ethnic comparison / Eunai Park and Gregory J. Palardy
  • The job acquisition process : social structure, undergraduate resources, and college-to-work transitions / Cory Heyman
  • Application of event history modeling for examining college student departure behavior / Terry T. Ishitani
  • Improving inferences about student achievement : a multidimensional perspective / Laura S. Hamilton
  • A cross-national analysis of student victimization : school system effects on school violence / Motoko Akiba
  • Toward an understanding of Hong Kong and United States students' mathematics achievement / Debbie Baofeng Wang.