Interstate Variations in Rural Student Achievement and Schooling Conditions. ERIC Digest.

Autor/in	Lee, Jaekyung
Institution	ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Charleston, WV.
Titel	Interstate Variations in Rural Student Achievement and Schooling Conditions. ERIC Digest.
Quelle	(2001), (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	ERIC Publications; ERIC Digests in Full Text
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Educational Environment; Educational Trends; Elementary Secondary Education; Mathematics Achievement; Poverty; Rural Education; Rural Schools; Rural Urban Differences; School Size; Small Schools; Socioeconomic Influences; Student School Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Bildungsentwicklung; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Armut; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung
Abstract	This digest reviews research on the status of rural student achievement and schooling conditions and describes variations across the nation and the states. Between 1992 and 1996, rural students began to outperform nonrural students on the 8th-grade mathematics assessment of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Despite this aggregate national trend, the states varied substantially in rural students' mathematics achievement and in the achievement gap between rural and nonrural students. An examination of rural schooling conditions that affect student achievement indicates that rural schools, most of which are small, harbor inherent advantages and disadvantages. However, overly generalized conclusions about rural schooling conditions may obscure large variations among and within states. Interstate variations in the rural-nonrural achievement gap are closely related to interstate variations in key schooling conditions, such as instructional resources and professional training. Research in seven states on the effects of district or school size and poverty found that the effects of size on excellence (level of average achievement) varied greatly across states, while the effects of size on equity (the relationship between achievement and socioeconomic status) was highly consistent across states. A lack of consensus about what works for improving rural education is complicated by the variance in rural schooling conditions and in definitions of "rural." (Contains 14 references.) (SV)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC