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Education
By Zakia Redd, M.P.P., Jennifer Brooks, Ph.D., and Ayelish M. McGarvey
TABLE 1 TABLE 2 TABLE 3 TABLE 4 TABLE 5 TABLE 6 TABLE 7
Academic Self-Concept Achievement Motivation School Engagement Educational Expectations Academic Achievement High School Completion/Reduce High School Dropout Postsecondary Attendance and Attainment
Education

  Experimental Research Studies Non-Experimental Research Studies
School Engagement

- Career academies (or small learning communities)

- Educational enhancement programs for at-risk youth


- Mentoring programs
Individual Level

- Promote increased academic self-concept

- Promote more positive achievement motivation

- Increase adolescents' feelings of belonging and connectedness at school

- Decrease educational risk

- Promote adolescents' academic achievement

- Promote adolescents' enrollment in an academic track at school

- Discourage adolescents' involvement in delinquent behavior

- Discourage adolescents' extensive employment during school-year

Family Level

- Promote two-parent families

- Discourage teenage childbearing

- Promote parents' involvement and interest in adolescents' education

- Promote authoritative parenting styles

Peer Level

- Promote increased educational aspirations among adolescents' peers or alter adolescents' perceptions of their peers' educational aspirations

School Level

- Discourage large school enrollment

- Promote an emphasis on academics in schools

- Promote increased emphasis on mastery goals and decreased emphasis on learning goals at school

- Increase teachers' expectations and support for adolescents' education or adolescents' perceptions of their teachers' expectations

Program Level

- Family-orientated substance abuse prevention programs

- Seattle Social Development Program

- School-to-work programs


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