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ERIC Number: EJ583235
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-7961
The Effects of Home Microsystem Risk Factors and School Microsystem Protective Factors on Student Academic Performance and Affective Investment in Schooling.
Bowen, Natasha K.; Bowen, Gary L.
Social Work in Education, v20 n4 p219-31 Oct 1998
Examines the relative role of selected risk and protective factors on students' achievement and affective investment in schooling with middle and high school students (N=582) involved in Communities in Schools. Teacher support was found to have a greater impact than home status and home academic culture risk on educational investment and the only statistically significant effect on grades. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Family School Relationship, High Risk Students, High Schools, Middle Schools, School Holding Power, School Social Workers, Student Motivation, Teacher Student Relationship
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Protective Factors