EJ512947 TM519139
Title:
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and
Students' Attitudes, Motives, and Performance: A Multilevel Analysis.
Author(s):: Battistich, Victor; And Others
Source: American Educational Research Journal, v32 n3 p627-58
Fall 1995
Publication Date: 1995
Notes: Section on teaching, learning, and human development.
Research supported by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, the Danforth Foundation, the Stuart Foundations, the
Pew Charitable Trusts, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
the Annenberg Foundation, Spunk Fund, Inc., the DeWitt Wallace Reader's
Digest Fund, Inc., Louise and Claude Rosenburg, Jr., and the Center
for Substance Abuse Prevention.
ISSN: 0002-8312
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Evaluative
(142)
Journal Announcement: CIJFEB1996
Hierarchical
linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students'
sense of community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives,
beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools.
Within schools, the sense of community of individual students was
significantly associated with student outcome measures. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement; *Behavior Patterns; Beliefs;
*Community; Elementary Education; Institutional Characteristics;
*Outcomes of Education; *Poverty; Socioeconomic Status; *Student
Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Student Motivation
Identifiers: Hierarchical Linear Modeling; *Multilevel Analysis;
*Sense of Community
