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Athletic Participation And Gender On Act Achievement For Private School Students In The Southeast, Cade A. Smith
Athletic Participation And Gender On Act Achievement For Private School Students In The Southeast, Cade A. Smith
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The purpose of this dissertation was to add to the limited available research concerning the effect that athletic participation has on academic achievement in private schools. For each hypothesis, the independent variables were athletic participation and gender. For the first hypothesis, the dependent variable was academic achievement as measured by the ACT Composite score. For Hypotheses 2-5, the dependent variables were academic achievement as measured by the ACT Reading, Mathematics, English, and Science Reasoning subtests, respectively. Through a review of the literature, the history of interscholastic athletics was examined and the positive and negative effects of athletic participation on academic …
School Size And Socioeconomic Status On Mathematics And Literacy Achievement For Students In Arkansas, Robert Childers
School Size And Socioeconomic Status On Mathematics And Literacy Achievement For Students In Arkansas, Robert Childers
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The purpose of this dissertation was to add to the limited available research concerning the effects of size of school and socioeconomic status (SES) on literacy and mathematics achievement for students in Grades 9 through 12 in Western and Northwestern Arkansas. Of the four high schools, two were larger 6A/7A schools, and two were smaller 3A/4A schools. In all four hypotheses, the independent variables were size of school and SES measured by lunch status. In the first hypothesis, the dependent variable was literacy achievement as measured by student performance on the 2012 End of Course (EOC) literacy examination. In the …