A Study of the Relationship of Socio-economic Status to School Achievement and Intelligence
Author: Floyd Leonard Ellingson
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 84
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Author: Floyd Leonard Ellingson
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clifton E. Davis (Sr.)
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roy Dean Hargis
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marvin L. Gunn
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 221
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gertrude Duderstadt McMillian
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shalu Jindal
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9783659238796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present study was conducted employing descriptive method. The independent variables were intelligence and socio-economic status and dependent variable pertained to underachievement in science. Regression equation was used to identify underachievement in science. To study the main effects and interaction effects of independent variables of intelligence and socio-economic status on the dependent variable of under achievement in science, statistical technique of analysis of variance was employed.Our results suggests that intelligence is positively and significantly related to underachievement in science. Teachers and parents should consider the fact that children who are underachievers may be due to low intelligence. So child should not snub or punished without his own fault. Teachers should give more attention to these students. Home work, assignments or other study material should be provided to these students according to their abilities. Further results show that socio economic status is positively and significantly related to underachievement in science. To raise this status of child, financial help should be given the children of poor economic background.
Author: Louise Stoll
Publisher: Institute of Education
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 8
ISBN-13: 9780854734764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last decade has seen a burgeoning of interest in the twin fields of school effectiveness and school improvement by politicians, policy makers and practitioners. For some, the drive has been to raise standards and increase accountability through inspection and assessment measures, believing that the incentive of accountability and market competition will lead to improvement. Alternatively, reform and restructuring have led many people in schools to create their own agenda and ask, ‘How do we know that what we are doing makes a positive difference to our pupils?’ and, ‘What can we do to provide pupils with the best possible education?’ This paper explores the two paradigms that underpin notions of school effectiveness and school improvement. We start with their definitions and aims. Key factors of effectiveness and improvement are examined and fundamental issues discussed. We conclude with a description of attempts to link the two areas of work.
Author: Daniel Nemeroff
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 222
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Greg J. Duncan
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 573
ISBN-13: 1610447514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the incomes of affluent and poor families have diverged over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children. But how exactly do the forces of rising inequality affect the educational attainment and life chances of low-income children? In Whither Opportunity? a distinguished team of economists, sociologists, and experts in social and education policy examines the corrosive effects of unequal family resources, disadvantaged neighborhoods, insecure labor markets, and worsening school conditions on K-12 education. This groundbreaking book illuminates the ways rising inequality is undermining one of the most important goals of public education—the ability of schools to provide children with an equal chance at academic and economic success. The most ambitious study of educational inequality to date, Whither Opportunity? analyzes how social and economic conditions surrounding schools affect school performance and children’s educational achievement. The book shows that from earliest childhood, parental investments in children’s learning affect reading, math, and other attainments later in life. Contributor Meredith Phillip finds that between birth and age six, wealthier children will have spent as many as 1,300 more hours than poor children on child enrichment activities such as music lessons, travel, and summer camp. Greg Duncan, George Farkas, and Katherine Magnuson demonstrate that a child from a poor family is two to four times as likely as a child from an affluent family to have classmates with low skills and behavior problems – attributes which have a negative effect on the learning of their fellow students. As a result of such disparities, contributor Sean Reardon finds that the gap between rich and poor children’s math and reading achievement scores is now much larger than it was fifty years ago. And such income-based gaps persist across the school years, as Martha Bailey and Sue Dynarski document in their chapter on the growing income-based gap in college completion. Whither Opportunity? also reveals the profound impact of environmental factors on children’s educational progress and schools’ functioning. Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Christina Gibson-Davis show that local job losses such as those caused by plant closings can lower the test scores of students with low socioeconomic status, even students whose parents have not lost their jobs. They find that community-wide stress is most likely the culprit. Analyzing the math achievement of elementary school children, Stephen Raudenbush, Marshall Jean, and Emily Art find that students learn less if they attend schools with high student turnover during the school year – a common occurrence in poor schools. And David Kirk and Robert Sampson show that teacher commitment, parental involvement, and student achievement in schools in high-crime neighborhoods all tend to be low. For generations of Americans, public education provided the springboard to upward mobility. This pioneering volume casts a stark light on the ways rising inequality may now be compromising schools’ functioning, and with it the promise of equal opportunity in America.