Middle School, School Culture, Parental Involvement, and the Academic Index

<p>This research examines two possible influences of student achievement at the middle school level: school culture and parental involvement. The study investigates Kentucky Scholastic Audits of 90 middle schools from 2001 through 2005. The purpose of the study is to identify whether school culture and parental involvement affect student performance. The results of this study suggest that demographic variables account for most of the variance in the Academic Index. Controlling for demographics, parental involvement does not affect the school Academic Index, while school culture does add significantly to the variance explained.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Sociology

Year

2014

Author dc:creator

• Clute, Jacob L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Douglas C. Smith (Director), Holli Drummond, Stephen Miller

• Middle School
• School Culture
• Parental Involvement
• Academic Index
• Educational Assessment
• Educational Sociology
• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
• Sociology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1432

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-2435