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Joo, Young Sun; Kim, Youngmi – Children & Schools, 2023
Schools and neighborhoods are adolescents' primary environments, and each has a significant influence on their academic success. The majority of studies on educational attainment have examined the impact of a single context--either the school or the neighborhood--suggesting mixed findings on school and neighborhood effects as well as potential…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Neighborhoods, Educational Attainment, Racial Differences
Clayton, M. Annette; Teasley, Martell L. – Children & Schools, 2022
Although students must successfully navigate transition years in school in pursuit of sustained academic success, not enough is known about the context-linked experiences of African American male adolescents as they seek to traverse their senior year, one of the most important pivotal points in time for all students. This study examined the…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, African American Students
Bowen, Natasha K.; Lucio, Robert; Patak-Pietrafesa, Michele; Bowen, Gary L. – Children & Schools, 2020
To support student success effectively, school teams need information on known predictors of youth behavior and academic performance. In contrast to measures of behavioral and academic outcomes that are commonly relied on in schools, the School Success Profile (SSP) for middle and high school students provides comprehensive information on…
Descriptors: Success, Predictor Variables, Behavior, Expectation
Context-Linked Influences on the Achievement Outcomes of African American Female High School Seniors
Clayton, M. Annette – Children & Schools, 2017
The study discussed in this article examined the relationships between support from parents, teachers, and peers; contextual risks; and select achievement outcomes in a representative sample of African American female high school seniors enrolled in an urban school district in southeastern Virginia. Quantitative analysis revealed that some support…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, High School Seniors, Context Effect
Uretsky, Mathew C.; Stone, Susan – Children & Schools, 2016
Little is known about academic performance among homeless high school students, although correlates of academic performance are well documented among their peers in the elementary and middle school grades. This study explores the relationship between student-level demographic and academic performance indicators (for example, grade point average…
Descriptors: Homeless People, High School Students, Exit Examinations, Performance Factors
Beck-Cross, Cathy; Cooper, Robyn – Children & Schools, 2015
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people ages 15 to 19 years, with male adolescents four times more likely to die than their female peers. This study used Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model to examine micro- and macrosystems as predictors of suicidal behaviors through responses by male adolescents (N = 9,910) to a statewide…
Descriptors: Suicide, High School Students, Psychological Patterns, Behavior
Peters, S. Colby; Woolley, Michael E. – Children & Schools, 2015
Data from the School Success Profile generated by 19,228 middle and high school students were organized into three broad categories of risk and protective factors--control, support, and challenge--to examine the relative and combined power of aggregate scale scores in each category so as to predict academic success. It was hypothesized that higher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Success, Risk, Risk Assessment
Lagana, Maureen T. – Children & Schools, 2004
This study compared adolescents on a continuum of risk of school dropout: adolescents in the mainstream program (low risk); in an at-risk program (medium risk); and in an alternative evening program for dropouts (high risk). The researcher wanted to determine what factors predict school dropout, with particular attention given to family and social…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Group Membership, Evening Programs, Discriminant Analysis