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Does Enrollment in Ohio’s Urban Arts Magnet High Schools Make a Difference on OGT Scores and the On-Time Graduation Rate? A Descriptive Study

Ruffin, Milton Vaughn
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1377035918

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Music.
The purpose of the study was to ascertain the impact of enrollment in Ohio’s arts magnet high schools, and the extent to which it contributes to OGT scores and on-time graduation rate. Using publicly available data, namely the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) results and the on-time graduation rate, comparisons were made among six performing arts magnet schools, their six host districts, and statewide scores. The study compared OGT summary test results for the 2008-2009 tenth-grade cohort of students projected as 2011 on-time graduates. The six arts magnet high schools were located in six of Ohio’s largest urban school districts: Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and Dayton. The study encompassed the OGT school data reports for the cohort of students projected as 2011 graduates who entered high school in 2007, the school and district mission statements, and the publicly available disaggregated school enrollment information on websites of the state (Ohio Department of Education, 2013), the district, and the arts magnet schools. Comparisons of the 2009 state-wide OGT test results revealed that on average, passage rate for Arts Magnet Students were 3.9 percent higher in reading, 2.0 percent higher in mathematics, 4.2 percent higher in writing, 0.3 percent higher in science, and 3.0 percent higher in social studies. For Arts Magnet students, academic achievement on all five sections of the 2009 OGT was 2.7 percent higher than the State-wide average. Compared to OGT passage rate in their host districts, academic achievement was higher on all five test sections for Arts Magnet students. In the aggregate, students in the arts magnet schools graduated on time at a rate 20.2 percent higher than the average for students in the host districts’ and 8.5 percent higher than the average for students State-wide.
Jan Edwards (Advisor)
153 p.
Music Education
Arts Magnet Schools; School Choice; Ohio Graduation Test

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  • Ruffin, M. V. (2013). Does Enrollment in Ohio’s Urban Arts Magnet High Schools Make a Difference on OGT Scores and the On-Time Graduation Rate? A Descriptive Study [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1377035918

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  • Ruffin, Milton. Does Enrollment in Ohio’s Urban Arts Magnet High Schools Make a Difference on OGT Scores and the On-Time Graduation Rate? A Descriptive Study. 2013. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1377035918.

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  • Ruffin, Milton. "Does Enrollment in Ohio’s Urban Arts Magnet High Schools Make a Difference on OGT Scores and the On-Time Graduation Rate? A Descriptive Study." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1377035918

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