What Makes Schools Effective? A Comparison of the Relationships of Communitarian Climate and Academic Climate to Mathematics Achievement and Attendance During Middle School.

Phillips, Meredith

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Publication Date: 1997

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What Makes Schools Effective? A Comparison of the Relationships of Communitarian Climate and Academic Climate to Mathematics Achievement and Attendance During Middle School.

Phillips, Meredith

American Educational Research Journal, v34 n4 p633-62 Win 1997

Analyses of data for three cohorts of middle-school students (more than 5,600) show that communal organization was not related to mathematics achievement or attendance, but academic press was positively related to both mathematics achievement and attendance. Results call for more skepticism about the currently popular communitarian approach to school effectiveness. (SLD)

Descriptors: Attendance, Cohort Analysis, Educational Environment, Effective Schools Research, Institutional Characteristics, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Middle School Students, Middle Schools, School Effectiveness

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Language: English

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