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Neighborhood social processes and academic achievement in elementary school
Author(s) -
Emory Ronya,
Caughy Margaret,
Harris T. Robert,
Franzini Luisa
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.20266
Subject(s) - socialization , reading (process) , collective efficacy , psychology , test (biology) , academic achievement , logistic regression , educational attainment , social psychology , low income , mathematics education , developmental psychology , demographic economics , mathematics , statistics , political science , economics , paleontology , law , biology
To examine how neighborhood characteristics influence academic achievement, data were drawn from a community survey of low‐income neighborhoods and linked with data on performance on standardized testing for third‐grade students attending elementary schools in those communities. Results of multilevel logistic regressions indicated that probability of passing the reading portion of the test was associated with high neighborhood expectations for educational attainment and high collective socialization. Contrary to expectations, higher probability of passing reading was associated with higher fear of victimization and retaliation. Passing rates for the mathematics portion of the test were greater in neighborhoods with high levels of collective efficacy. Neighborhood economic impoverishment was not a significant predictor of passing after adjusting for neighborhood social characteristics. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.