Solving the Achievement Gap

Stuart S. Yeh

ISBN 10: 1137587660 / ISBN 13: 9781137587664

Edité par Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Dez 2016, 2016

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Neuware -This book examines the cause of the student achievement gap, suggesting that the prevailing emphasis on socioeconomic factors, sociocultural influences, and teacher quality is misplaced. The cause of the achievement gap is not differences in parenting styles, or the economic advantages of middle-class parents, or differences in the quality of teachers. Instead, schools present learning tasks and award grades in ways that inadvertently undermine the self-efficacy, engagement, and effort of low-performing students, causing demoralization and exacerbating differences in achievement that are seen to exist as early as kindergarten. This process systematically maintains and widens initial gaps in achievement that might otherwise be expected to disappear over the K-12 years. Misdiagnosis of the nature of the achievement gap has led to misguided solutions. The author draws upon a range of research studies to support this view and to offer recommendations for improvement.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 252 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Solving the Achievement Gap
• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Dez 2016
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1137587660
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781137587664
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 235 L x 155 H x 14 P (en millimètres) 235 millimètres de largeur par 155 millimètres de hauteur par 14 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 388 grammes

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Synopsis

This book examines the cause of the student achievement gap, suggesting that the prevailing emphasis on socioeconomic factors, sociocultural influences, and teacher quality is misplaced. The cause of the achievement gap is not differences in parenting styles, or the economic advantages of middle-class parents, or differences in the quality of teachers. Instead, schools present learning tasks and award grades in ways that inadvertently undermine the self-efficacy, engagement, and effort of low-performing students, causing demoralization and exacerbating differences in achievement that are seen to exist as early as kindergarten. This process systematically maintains and widens initial gaps in achievement that might otherwise be expected to disappear over the K-12 years. Misdiagnosis of the nature of the achievement gap has led to misguided solutions. The author draws upon a range of research studies to support this view and to offer recommendations for improvement.

À propos de l?auteur

Stuart S. Yeh is Associate Professor of Evaluation Studies at the University of Minnesota, USA. He has published numerous scholarly articles and two books regarding promising strategies for addressing the achievement gap, and has served as an invited expert at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.