When Do Students in Low-SES Schools Perform Better-Than-Expected on a High-Stakes Test? Analyzing School, Teacher, Teaching, and Professional Development Characteristics

Christian Fischer; Barry Fishman; Abigail Jurist Levy; Arthur Eisenkraft; Christopher Dede; Frances Lawrenz; Yueming Jia; Janna Fuccillo Kook; Kim Frumin; Ayana McCoy

doi:10.1177/0042085916668953

When Do Students in Low-SES Schools Perform Better-Than-Expected on a High-Stakes Test? Analyzing School, Teacher, Teaching, and Professional Development Characteristics

Christian Fischer, Barry Fishman, Abigail Jurist Levy, Arthur Eisenkraft, Christopher Dede, Frances Lawrenz, Yueming Jia, Janna Fuccillo Kook, Kim Frumin, Ayana McCoy

Educational Psychology

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This empirical study analyzed data from 638 teachers and 11,800 students in low-socioeconomic status (SES) urban schools (and schools with urban characteristics) exploring associations of school, teacher, teaching, and professional development characteristics toward student performance on the revised Advanced Placement (AP) Biology and AP Chemistry examinations. The analyses indicated that districts per-student funding allocations, the days of instruction, teachers’ knowledge and experience, and some aspects of teachers’ professional development participation were significantly associated with student performance on AP science examinations that was better than predicted by students’ Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) scores.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1280-1314
Number of pages	35
Journal	Urban Education
Volume	55
Issue number	8-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085916668953
State	Published - Oct 1 2020

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through the Discovery Research PreK-12 program (DRK-12), Award 1221861.

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The authors thank the following people for their contributions to this work: Amy Wheelock and Ted Gardella of the College Board, Allison Scheff of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, and the thousands of AP teachers who helped shape and participated in this project. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through the Discovery Research PreK-12 program (DRK-12), Award 1221861.

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science education

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Fischer, C., Fishman, B., Levy, A. J., Eisenkraft, A., Dede, C., Lawrenz, F., Jia, Y., Kook, J. F., Frumin, K., & McCoy, A. (2020). When Do Students in Low-SES Schools Perform Better-Than-Expected on a High-Stakes Test? Analyzing School, Teacher, Teaching, and Professional Development Characteristics. Urban Education, 55(8-9), 1280-1314. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085916668953

Fischer, C, Fishman, B, Levy, AJ, Eisenkraft, A, Dede, C, Lawrenz, F, Jia, Y, Kook, JF, Frumin, K & McCoy, A 2020, 'When Do Students in Low-SES Schools Perform Better-Than-Expected on a High-Stakes Test? Analyzing School, Teacher, Teaching, and Professional Development Characteristics', Urban Education, vol. 55, no. 8-9, pp. 1280-1314. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085916668953

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