Student success modeling : elementary school to college / edited by Raymond V. Padilla ; foreword by Sarita E. Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Padilla, Raymond V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School improvement programs--United States--Case studies.

School improvement programs.

Children with social disabilities--Education.

Success.

Students.

United States.

Students--United States--Case studies.

Success--United States--Case studies.

Children with social disabilities--Education--United States--Case studies.

Children with social disabilities.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sterling, Va. : Stylus, 2009.

Summary:

This book focuses on one of the key questions in education: What determines a student's success?

Based on twenty years of work on student success, Ray Padilla here presents two related models he has developed that both provide a framework for understanding success, and indicate how it can be enhanced and replicated. The research and theory that inform his models are covered in detail.

Rather than focusing on the reasons for failure or drop-out, his approach focuses on understanding the factors that account for student success and that enable many students, some of them under the most challenging circumstances, to complete all program requirements and graduate.

The models provide schools and colleges with an analytical tool to uncover the reasons for student success so that they can develop strategies and practices that will enable more students to emulate their successful peers. They address the characteristics of the students - such as motivation and engagement, the ability to surmount barriers, and persistence - and similarly surface the characteristics of teachers, the educational institution, its resources, and the contexts in which all these factors interact. The process provides administrators with a clear and appropriate strategy for action at the level of each individual unit or subpopulation.

The book demonstrates how the models have been applied in settings as diverse as a minority high school, a community college, and a Hispanic-Serving Institution, and for such purposes as comparing a high-performing and a non-high-performing elementary school.

Contents:

1 The Preoccupation with Student Outcomes 1

2 Searching for Theory and Method 21

3 Student Success in Elementary School / Mary Miller 46

4 Student Success in a High-Minority High School / Kimberly S. Barker 96

5 Student Success in a Community College / Ralph Mario Wirth 134

6 Student Success in a Hispanic-Serving University / Raymond V. Padilla, George Norton 158

7 Implementation Models 179

8 Expanding the Conversation 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781579223267

1579223265

9781579223274

1579223273

OCLC:

228374300