National Assessment of Educational Progress, 1985-86: School Effects on Educational Achievement in Mathematics and Science.

摘要

The report examines the effects of school characteristics on mathematics and science achievement in the third, seventh, and eleventh grades using the data from the 1985-86 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The effects of both student characteristics and school characteristics on mathematics and science achievement levels were examined. The school-level characteristics represented aspects of the school environment that have been shown in the school effectiveness literature to be related to student achievement. Five groups of characteristics that could be measured in the NAEP dataset were used: student body characteristics, fiscal and physical characteristics of the school, school program structure, school academic standards, and principal and teacher characteristics.