Download or read book Structural Determinants of Graduation Rates written by Michael C. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines graduation rates at public two-year, public four-year and private four-year colleges in the United States. Its major purpose is to account for the variance in graduation rates taking into account several institutional and institutionally-related student financial aid predictor variables. United States colleges and universities are the unit of analysis. College graduation rates are viewed as a function of structural differences between institutions. Of the 3,072 colleges in the sample 20.4% are public four-year institutions, 42.5% are private four-year colleges, and 37.1% are public two-year colleges. All 50 states are represented in the sample. Collectively, these colleges enrolled 10,416,131 full-time equivalent students in 2003-04, the year for the analysis. A "recursive path analysis model" was constructed to provide a means to test the hypotheses and to visually interpret the results. Structural differences between institutions of higher education explain a significant amount of the observed variation in both retention and graduation rates. Goodness of fit indexes support the proposition that the model fits the data quite well. The overall conclusion of the study is that structural differences between institutions may be as important to college persistence and graduation rates as differences in individual students' experiences and commitments. (Contains 8 tables and a bibliography.).
Download or read book The Determinants of Educational Attainment written by Kathryn S. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social and Structural Determinants of Health E Book written by Teri A. Murray and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain the knowledge and skills you need to promote equity in health care! Focused on what nurses can do to address health disparities, The Social and Structural Determinants of Health: Educating Nurses to Advance Health Equity provides a comprehensive look at how factors such as income, education, and race can lead to systemic disadvantage in health and well-being. It shows how nurses can partner with communities and organizations to understand the root causes of inequities in health, develop equity-minded skills, and take action to advance long-lasting progress. Written by Teri A. Murray, a noted nursing educator with rich expertise in health equity, this text makes it easy to learn and apply the principles that can lead to better health outcomes and healthier communities. Coverage of the social determinants of health (SDOH) addresses the environmental conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age, and how these conditions lead to systemic disadvantage in health and all aspects of life. Descriptions of the health disparities seen in marginalized and minoritized populations include structural determinants such as the distribution of wealth, power, social and cultural norms, and economic and political factors. Context for the health disparities seen at the population level includes both structural and social determinants. Consistent format of chapters includes a chapter overview, learning objectives, Reflection questions, a case study or community-based experience, and more. Unit I of the book includes five chapters patterned after the framework used by Healthy People 2030: Social Determinants of Health, with a sixth chapter on the historical context of race and racism in health and how it is an underlying factor for the inequities that lead to health disparities. Chapters in Unit II provide strategies and approaches that nurses can employ to advance health equity.
Download or read book Environmental Factors Affecting Non traditional age Undergraduates Postsecondary Persistence and Graduation Rates written by Durwin Alan Long and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding the Factors that Affect Graduation Rates in Public School Districts in the United States and Improving Strategies Used to Raise Graduation Rates in the Los Angeles Unified School District written by Julio A. Martinez (Graduate student) and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graduation rates at public schools in the United States are not where they are supposed to be. The average national graduation rate is 84.6%. Public schools have struggled to raise graduation rates to 100% and to make sure students are getting the best education possible. High school dropouts usually have a difficult time finding a full-time job and earn considerably less in their lifetime than graduates do. As adults, they tend to need assistance with housing, food, and other vital necessities. Dropouts also tend to commit more crimes and have a higher chance of being incarcerated during their adulthood. Low graduation rates are attributable to factors inherent to students' socioeconomic backgrounds, behaviors, and choices, as well as challenges faced by the public school districts. The factors predicting academic failure among high school students are dynamically intertwined and co-dependent. Many policies have passed and failed or not done enough to raise graduation rates to the ultimate goal of 100%. This proposed study intends to shed light on the factors that affect graduation rates in the Los Angeles Unified School District and finding ways to improve the strategies that are currently being used to monitor and raise graduation rates. This paper will propose a two-phase mixed methods approach via an emailed or mailed survey to administrators, parents, and students querying their knowledge and opinion on the factors that affect graduation rates at their schools. Suggested improvements to strategies to raise graduation rates that are currently in place will be the result of the study.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book Success Seekers written by Jeanne D. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation addresses two questions: a) What factors contribute to African American males dropping out of, completing an A.A. degree, and/or transferring to 4-year colleges and universities; b) How do beliefs, goals, aspirations, and experiences of African American males affect their persistence in community college. Research is based on the experience at the Daraja Project, Canyon College, a learning community that combines academic and student services to create a study environment that assists underrepresented students acheive success in higher education.
Download or read book An Analysis of the Factors Shaping Student Graduation Rates for Virginia s Public Colleges and Universities written by Carolyn H. Livingston and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The variables that "best" predicted baccalaureate degree completion in six years was high school grade point average and total family income. Those students who had high high grade point averages and came from families with higher total family incomes were more likely to complete a baccalaureate degree. Furthermore, students who did not require financial aid or work-study were more likely to graduate within six years.
Download or read book NYS High School Graduation Rate Disproportionality written by Kelly Gilpin Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quantitative study examines the impact that social contextual factors, such as racial composition, segregation, socioeconomic status, and school factors, such as per-pupil expenditure, student-to-teacher ratio, and school size have on the White-Black and White-Hispanic high school graduation rates within New York State school districts. Theoretically, I frame my study using Nasir and Hand's (2006) Sociocultural Theory Framework, which addresses the intersectionality of race, culture, and inherent learning biases that impact minoritized students educated in incompatible historical school structures.The dissertation addresses several research questions, such as (1) What determines the variation of cohort graduation rates in NYS school districts; (2) The characteristics of districts that explain the variability in graduation rates; (3) The variation of race-specific cohort graduation rates in NYS school districts; (4) The factors that explain the variability in NYS graduation rates. SPSS and HLM software are used to analyze EDFacts' adjusted cohort graduation rates by subgroup for all public high schools in New York State from 20100́317. The significance of this dissertation is to identify key school and social contextual factors within NYS schools that enable Black and Hispanic students to thrive academically. The findings of this dissertation determine that social contextual factors, particularly SES, are highly predictive of student achievement.
Download or read book Is Student Right to Know All You Should Know written by Thomas Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, policymakers, educators, and researchers have increasingly sought to understand community college policies and practices that promote students' success. This effort has been partly driven by an increased emphasis on outcome accountability, but it has also promoted a productive discussion about improving institutional performance. The research reported here has two related goals. One goal is to work towards strengthening the ability to assess and compare institutional performance. We thus have developed a model that can be used to adjust simple graduation rates for institutional characteristics, such as student composition, college resources, size, and location, all of which might influence those rates. Our long-term goal is to understand how to improve student outcomes, so the paper also uses the model to measure the effect of those institutional characteristics on graduation rates. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) surveys, applying a weighted least-squares procedure for grouped data to estimate an institutional-completion rates model. This analysis confirms several hypotheses about institutional determinants of graduation rates at community colleges. Our results indicate a consistent negative relationship between enrollment size and completion. Additionally, colleges with high shares of minority students, part-time students, and women have lower graduation rates. A final significant finding among institutional characteristics is that greater instructional expenditures are related to a greater likelihood of graduation. The method developed here can be used to better assess the performance of community colleges. (Contains 1 figure and 3 tables.).
Download or read book Factors Affecting High School Graduation Rates in Metropolitan Atlanta Public Schools written by Arunma Christy Ogbuagu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education at a Glance 2013 OECD Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators is the authoritative source for accurate and relevant information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances, and performance of education systems in more than 40 countries.
Download or read book Fast Facts about Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Nursing written by Sandra Davis, PhD, DPM, ACNP-BC, FAANP and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivers a comprehensive toolbox for understanding race and racism at structural, institutional, and individual levels This nursing handbook introduces and defines key terms about race and racism for nurses, nursing students, and nurse educators. It addresses how race and racism act as structural and core social determinants of health and propel health inequities. It moves beyond a focus on multicultural approaches for understanding inequity toward a recognition of the broader impact that both systemic and structural racism have had on inequality in health and life opportunities. Through a social justice lens, the book underscores how nurses, as frontline health professionals, need to understand racism as a factor behind these inequities and its significance to their working environment and nursing practice. In concise chapters with brief paragraphs and bulleted information, this practical handbook offers strategies for how to productively engage in a dialogue about race and racism. It considers the history of racism in the United States and then breaks down how it operates at structural, institutional, and individual levels. Case studies illustrate such concepts as microaggressions, implicit bias, power, privilege, and intersectionality in order to foster understanding and provide opportunities for both self-reflection and collective conversation. Key Features: Delivers clear and easy-to-read content in concise, bulleted format Empowers nurses to initiate conversations about race and racism in the workplace and classroom with confidence and ease Provides an historical context for understanding how racism contributes to inequities in health and economic opportunities Illustrates concepts with case studies and reflection questions Features "Fast Facts" boxes that highlight essential information at a glance Promotes the concepts of antiracism, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
Download or read book Predicting Graduation Rates An Analysis of Student and Institutional Factors at University Council for Educational Administration Public Universities written by Linda M. Creighton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords. Graduation rates, Student factors, and Institutional factors.
Download or read book Education at a Glance 2014 OECD Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides annual data on the structure, finances, and performance of education systems in the OECD’s 34 member countries, as well as a number of partner countries.
Download or read book Factors Related to the Declining Four year Graduation Rates written by Karin Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Structural Model of the Determinants of Educational Success written by Robert H. Haveman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
