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Curriculum and Instruction Undergraduate Honors Theses

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An Exploratory Analysis Of Primary School Suspension And Expulsion, Leen Abochale May 2022

An Exploratory Analysis Of Primary School Suspension And Expulsion, Leen Abochale

Curriculum and Instruction Undergraduate Honors Theses

This study investigated the variables that might impact primary school in-school suspension (ISS) and out-of-school suspension (OSS) in a rural state in the southern region of the United States. Data for the present study were collected from the state’s Department of Education’s discipline database. Data was analyzed across three school years using separate multilevel growth modeling approaches: one with ISS rate as the dependent variable and another with OSS rate as the dependent variable. (Raudenbush and Bryk, 2002). Predictors in both models include the percentage of English-language learner students, percentage of low-income students, percentage of students eligible for SPED, the …