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Advancing Educational Productivity provides a wealth of critical analysis on educational matters at the local, state, national, and international levels. The authors have tackled issues such as educational productivity and achievement and other outcomes; forms of social capital in the home, school, and community; innovative measurement and design approaches to understanding achievement and similar outcomes; and international studies for understanding U.S. productivity. This book acquires greater timeliness with the passing of President George W. Bush’s federal education legislation, the No Child Left Behind Act, intended to ensure that all children have a fair, equal and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.
Introduction and Overview; Susan J. Paik
Part I. Educational Productivity and Achievement.
Chapter 1. Using an Educational Productivity Model to Construct Process Models for Mathematics Achievement and Attitudes Among Ethnic Minorities; John Thomas
Chapter 2. The Intended and Unintended Consequences of High School Graduation Requirement Policy; Peter Teitelbaum
Part II. Forms of Social Capital.
Chapter 3. African American Students' Educational Outcomes: The Role of School Relationships; George L. Wimberly
Chapter 4. The Impact of Parent Involvement and Authoritativeness on Academic Achievement: A Cross-Ethnic Comparison; Eunai Park and Gregory Palardy
Chapter 5. The Job Acquisition Process: Social Structure, Undergraduate Resources, and College-to-Work Transitions; Cory Heyman
Part III. Analytic and Measurement Innovation.
Chapter 6. Application of Event History Modeling for Examining College Student Departure Behavior; Terry Ishitani
Chapter 7. Improving Inferences about Student Achievement: A Multidimensional Perspective; Laura Hamilton
Part IV. International Perspectives on Educational Productivity.
Chapter 8. A Cross-National Analysis of Student Victimization: School System Effects on School Violence; Motoko Akiba
Chapter 9. Toward an Understanding of Hong Kong and United States Students' Mathematics Achievement; Debbie Baofeng Wang