讲座主题:减少学生的流动性:关系建设干预的随机实验研究(Reducing School Mobility: A Randomized Trial of a Relationship-Building Intervention)
讲座内容:
学生的流动对于学生和学校有诸多的负面影响,处境不利学生的高流动率可能会加大不平等的状况。学者建议学校通过改进学校与家庭、家庭之间的关系来降低流动率,但是这些举措的效果很少得到严格的检验。本研究在德克萨斯和亚利桑那两个州的53所小学开展了一个组群随机干预试验,即通过家庭和学校共同努力(FAST),在家庭、学生和学校之间构建社会资本,以减少小学低年级学生的流动率。研究结果显示,FAST项目没能减少总体学生的流动率,但是却有效的降低了黑人学生的流动率(黑人学生尤为可能转学),这种效果可以由家庭间关系的改善来解释。
Student turnover has many negative consequences for students and schools, and the high mobility rates of disadvantaged students may exacerbate inequality. Scholars have advised schools to reduce mobility by building and improving relationships with and among families, but such efforts are rarely tested rigorously. A cluster-randomized field experiment in 52 elementary schools in Texas and Arizona tested whether student mobility in early elementary school was reduced through Families and Schools Together (FAST), an intervention that builds social capital among families, children, and schools. FAST failed to reduce mobility overall but substantially reduced the mobility of Black students, who were especially likely to change schools. Improved relationships among families helped explain this finding.
嘉宾简介:Ruth N. López Turley,博士,莱斯大学(Rice University)社会学系副教授;休斯敦教育研究协会会长。Turley博士1996年在斯坦福大学完成本科学业,2001年获得哈佛大学社会学博士学位。她曾任威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校社会学系的副教授和威斯康星教育研究中心的研究成员。2004年, Turley博士在美国国家教育学院进行博士后研究,2012年供职于国家研究委员会。