Student Mobility, Social Class, and Academic Performance - AERA 2006 (Rogers & Rose) (original) (raw)

AERA 2014 Poster: Variation in the Effect of Mobility on Achievement: Reasons for School Changes

The complete school histories of a random statewide sample of 6,455 students were analyzed using cross-classified multiple membership growth curve modeling to estimate the immediate and persistent effects of school changes on GPA and the variation in these effects across the full spectrum of reasons for school changes. Overall, students experienced a drop of about .07 points in academic grade point average for each move in a given year as well as for each move in prior years. Changes due to concurrent residential and family changes had the largest negative short-term and long-term impacts on GPA.

AERA 2014 Paper: Variation in the Effect of Mobility on Achievement: Reasons for School Changes

The complete school histories of a random statewide sample of 6,455 students were analyzed using cross-classified multiple membership growth curve modeling to estimate the immediate and persistent effects of school changes on GPA and the variation in these effects across the full spectrum of reasons for school changes. Overall, students experienced a drop of about .07 points in academic grade point average for each move in a given year as well as for each move in prior years. Changes due to concurrent residential and family changes had the largest negative short-term and long-term impacts on GPA.

High levels of student mobility mean that kids who begin school in poor neighborhoods may not stay there

2015

Are children born into poor neighborhoods with bad schools destined to remain there? In new research that tracks student mobility in New York City public schools, Sarah Cordes along with co-authors Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel, and Jeffrey Zabel, find that while many students begin school in very poor neighborhoods, more than 40 percent move between grades one and ten, with many moving to areas with better schools. They find that while moving in general has a negative relationship with student performance, if students move to an area with better quality schools, this can overcome the negative impacts of moving.

The Consequences of Student Mobility via School Choice Policies

The study examines student mobility in a school choice setting in order to test the assumption that school choice moves improve achievement progress. School choice moves are defined as a subcategory of student mobility (or as one of many types of moves) to compare differences in academic progress that occurred after students made different types of school moves. Students who moved from a district school to a charter school experienced the steepest academic declines after controlling for student demographic covariates. Conversely, students that moved from a charter school to a district school experienced a net gain in academic progress.