Affiliation to school: measures and interventions

Using School Choice Lotteries to Test Measures of School Effectiveness

The measurement of school effectiveness is a central feature of educational accountability policies in all 50 US states and around the world. While school accountability measures are often based on test score levels (e.g., percent proficient), critics argue that test score gains are a fairer way to judge schools’ contributions to student achievement (e.g., Ladd and Walsh 2002, Ryan 2004). Such ...

Admission to Law School: New Measures

A Review of Implementation Outcome Measures of School‐Based Physical Activity Interventions

BACKGROUND Measuring the implementation of school-based physical activity (PA) interventions is an important prerequisite in assessing their impact. Prior to conducting a study to assess the implementation of the daily physical activity (DPA) policy in Ontario, Canada, a literature review was conducted to identify existing survey instruments to measure 5 implementation outcomes: adoption, fidel...

Effect of Spiritual-Religious Interventions on Anxiety, Depression, and Adjustment to Parental Divorce in Female High School Students

Background and Objectives: Parental divorce can cause distress for the children of a family and they may not be able to easily adjust themselves to it. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the factors that can improve their distress and facilitate the process of their adjustment. The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of spiritual-religious interventions on: anxiety, depression...

Reducing inequality: Neighborhood and school interventions

Neighborhood residential segregation by income has been increasing in the United States since 1970 at a higher rate than can be explained by rising income inequality alone. Nearly nine million Americans live in neighborhoods of extreme poverty, defined as those in which at least 40 percent of residents are poor. As income segregation has increased, minority children from low-income families who...