School Facet Through Surrounding Factors: A Geospatial Analysis of Community Social Capital Impacting Elementary Schools

<p>School performance rating is an important factor which not only provides a quick snapshot of how the students are performing on various measurement indicators but also decides a school’s future course of actions, strategies, resources, and its existence. Despite its significant importance, the school performance framework does not consider where the schools are geographically located and the surrounding factors within which they operate. The researcher of this study presented a landscape of the surrounding factors and its impact on the elementary schools within Denver Public Schools district. In this study, the surrounding factors are geospatially analyzed to determine the extent of spatial variation in the availability and accessibility of community social capital resources to the elementary schools. Using geospatial research methods, the researcher created three service area models for each elementary school to access community social capital resources that are available within its surrounding environment. Spatial concepts, tools, and inferential statistics were used to analyze spatial pattern and the relationship between the forms of community social capital resources and the elementary schools. As a result of this relationship analysis, a new term was conceptualized: School Facet through Surrounding Factors [SF]².</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Budhwani, Sajjid

Contributors dc:contributor

• Erin Anderson
• Kristopher Kuzera
• Ellen Miller-Brown

• Community resources
• Community social capital
• Education and GIS
• School surrounding
• Social capital
• Spatial equity
• Education
• Educational Administration and Supervision
• Educational Leadership
• Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration

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• <p>Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.</p>

Language dc:language

en

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1730

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.du.edu:etd-2731