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Are Schools the Great (Noncognitive Skills) Equalizer?

Ryan, Brooks C.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1305920898

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2011, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Sociology.
Noncognitive skills such as self-control, organization, and attentiveness substantially shape educational and later life outcomes. However, scholars debating the role of schools in reproducing the stratification system have largely ignored noncognitive skills. I examine the effect of schooling on the noncognitive skills of a nationally representative sample of kindergartners using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Cohort of 1998-99. Using an innovative methodological approach, partial seasonal comparisons, I find evidence that gaps in non-cognitive skills between low- and high-socioeconomic students develop when school is not in session and are unchanged when school is in session. These results suggest that non-school factors generate gaps in noncognitive skills along socioeconomic status and that schooling halts that process. These patterns are consistent with the compensation perspective, which considers schools to be an equalizing social institution rather than one that stratifies students based on their social origins.
Douglas B. Downey, PhD (Advisor)
Claudia Buchmann, PhD (Committee Member)
John B. Casterline, PhD (Committee Member)
49 p.
Sociology
education; stratification; noncognitive skills; socioeconomic status

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  • Ryan, B. C. (2011). Are Schools the Great (Noncognitive Skills) Equalizer? [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1305920898

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ryan, Brooks. Are Schools the Great (Noncognitive Skills) Equalizer? 2011. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1305920898.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ryan, Brooks. "Are Schools the Great (Noncognitive Skills) Equalizer?" Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1305920898

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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