Other 'What Works' Topics
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
Academic Self-Concept

- Mentoring programs (though only one evaluation)
 
Individual Level

- Promote increased academic achievement

- Discourage adolescents' extensive employment during school-year

Family Level

- Promote increased child support from non-residential fathers

Peer Level

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

School Level

- Reduce adolescents' perceptions that their classmates are more able or talented.

- Promote a moderate use of academic tracking

- Promote teachers' emphasis of mutual respect between students in their classroom.

Program Level

- Counseling programs for high school and middle school students, and academic programs for middle school students, with learning disabilities


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