The Influence of Scale on School Performance: A Multi-Level Extension of the Matthew Principle

Creator

Robert Bickel
Craig Howley

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

May 2000

Abstract

In this study, we investigate the joint influence of school and district size on school performance among schools with eighth grades (n=367) and schools with eleventh grades in Georgia (n=298). Schools are the unit of analysis in this study because schools are increasingly the unit on which states fix the responsibility to be accountable. The methodology further develops investigations along the line of evidence suggesting that the influence of size is contingent on socioeconomic status (SES). All previous studies have used a single-level regression model (i.e., schools or districts). This study confronts the issue of cross-level interaction of SES and size (i.e., schools and districts) with a single-equation-relative-effects model to interpret the joint influence of school and district size on school performance (i.e., the dependent variable is a school-level variable).

Keywords

School size, School district size, Socioeconomic status

Extent

32

Geographic Location

Georgia

Volume

8

Issue

22

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

E11-00166

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Bickel, Robert and Howley, Craig, "The Influence of Scale on School Performance: A Multi-Level Extension of the Matthew Principle" (2000). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 45.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/45