Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
12-2016
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph. D.
Department
Educational Leadership, Evaluation and Organizational Development
Degree Program
Educational Leadership and Organizational Development, PhD
Committee Chair
Immekus, Jason C
Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)
Ingle, W. Kyle
Committee Member
Ingle, W. Kyle
Committee Member
Carpenter, Bradley
Committee Member
Munoz, Marco
Author's Keywords
student background factors; school factors; student assignment; college readiness
Abstract
In 2006, Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education determined race-based student assignment plans violated the 14th Amendment. Through the assistance of Orfield and Frankenberg (2011), Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) reconfigured the district’s race-based student assignment and implemented a race- and socioeconomic-based student assignment plan. The purpose of this study was to examine students’ backgrounds and school composition factors within a race- and socioeconomic-based assignment plan to determine the extent the factors are related to college readiness. Based on data obtained from 3,018 Grade 11 students, hierarchical linear multiple regression was used to examine the utility of student background, school factors, and neighborhood factors to predict ACT scores. The predictors were found to explain 72.4%, 64.4%, and 57.4% of variance in ACT English, Mathematics, and Reading scores, respectively. Implications to policy, practice, and research are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Herberger, Gregory Paul, "The influence of student, neighborhood, and school factors on college readiness : an examination of factors combined as a result of implementing a race- and socioeconomically-based student assignment plan." (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2611.
https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/2611
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