Advancing educational productivity
Subtitle: policy implications from national databases
By: edited by Susan J. Paik.
Contributors: Paik, Susan J.
Series: Research in educational productivity
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Educational productivity.; Educational productivity -- United States.; Academic achievement.; Academic achievement -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview / Susan J. Paik; title: Using an educational productivity model to construct process models for mathematics achievement and attitudes among ethnic minorities / John P. Thomas; title: The intended and unintended consequences of high school graduation requirement policy / Peter Teitelbaum; title: African American students' educational outcomes : the role of school relationships / George L. Wimberly; title: The impact of parental involvement and authoritativeness on academic achievement : a cross-ethnic comparison / Eunai Park and Gregory J. Palardy; title: The job acquisition process : social structure, undergraduate resources, and college-to-work transitions / Cory Heyman; title: Application of event history modeling for examining college student departure behavior / Terry T. Ishitani; title: Improving inferences about student achievement : a multidimensional perspective / Laura S. Hamilton; title: A cross-national analysis of student victimization : school system effects on school violence / Motoko Akiba; title: Toward an understanding of Hong Kong and United States students' mathematics achievement / Debbie Baofeng Wang.