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Class And The Classroom: The Role Of Individual- And School-Level Socioeconomic Factors In Predicting Academic Outcomes, Emily Roebuck
Class And The Classroom: The Role Of Individual- And School-Level Socioeconomic Factors In Predicting Academic Outcomes, Emily Roebuck
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Socioeconomic status (SES) can greatly impact individuals’ college experience (e.g., Astin, 1993; Roksa & Velex, 2010). However, extant research has emphasized the effect of individual-level SES measures and unintentionally obfuscated the role that school-level SES may play in students’ academic outcomes. The present study was designed to determine the predictive power that participants’ individual SES (income) and contextual SES (percentage of student body in poverty) has for students’ course self-efficacy and engagement behaviors. Participants (N = 230) from five private Midwestern colleges reported their individual SES (income), course self-efficacy, engagement behaviors, and sense of school belonging. Additional data representing the …