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ERIC Number: EJ512947
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students' Attitudes, Motives, and Performance: A Multilevel Analysis.
Battistich, Victor; And Others
American Educational Research Journal, v32 n3 p627-58 Fall 1995
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students' sense of community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Within schools, the sense of community of individual students was significantly associated with student outcome measures. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Beliefs, Community, Elementary Education, Institutional Characteristics, Outcomes of Education, Poverty, Socioeconomic Status, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics, Student Motivation
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Multilevel Analysis; Sense of Community
Note: Section on teaching, learning, and human development. Research supported by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Danforth Foundation, the Stuart Foundations, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, Spunk Fund, Inc., the DeWitt Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, Inc., Louise and Claude Rosenburg, Jr., and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.