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Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools: A Grounded Theory on School Success on Achievement Tests

Urso, Christopher J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1206493498

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2008, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Educational Leadership.
This research project analyzed student success, as measured by achievement tests, within communities of high poverty. The purpose was to develop a grounded theory that offered insights as to how schools located within communities of high poverty could experience success on achievement tests. A second, and equally critical focus of this research was to better understand how teachers and principals interpreted success on achievement tests. What did success on achievement tests mean for students and their chances to live the American Dream? Specific questions this study intended to answer included: Do some schools experience success on achievement tests even when social class predictors of academic success forecast differently? What is occurring in these schools that contributes to their success on achievement tests? How do teachers and school administrators interpret student success on achievement tests in connection to student life chances?
Michael Dantley, PhD (Committee Chair)
Nelda Cambron-McCabe, PhD (Committee Member)
Dennis Carlson, PhD (Committee Member)
Tammy Schwartz, PhD (Committee Member)
176 p.
Educational Sociology; Educational Theory; Elementary Education; Organizational Behavior; School Administration; Teacher Education; Teaching
grounded theory; achievement tests; effective schools; postmodernism; social reproduction theory; critical theory; critical pedagogy; ethic of care; cultural capital; habitus

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  • Urso, C. J. (2008). Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools: A Grounded Theory on School Success on Achievement Tests [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1206493498

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Urso, Christopher. Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools: A Grounded Theory on School Success on Achievement Tests. 2008. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1206493498.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Urso, Christopher. "Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools: A Grounded Theory on School Success on Achievement Tests." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1206493498

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