School grading and institutional contexts

High School Grading Policies

High school grades are the most frequently used predictors in college and university admission decisions. As such, educators and policymakers are extremely interested in the consistency of grading standards and policies across secondary schools. There has always been some concern over the comparability of grades (Adelman, 1983; Camara, 1994), and with increased competition among a growing propo...

Measuring School Contexts

This article describes issues in measuring school contexts with an eye toward understanding students' experiences and outcomes. I begin with an overview of the conceptual underpinnings related to measuring contexts, briefly describe the initiatives at the National Center for Education Statistics to measure school contexts, and identify possible gaps in those initiatives that if filled could pro...

Parenting , school contexts and violent delinquency

4 Parenting, School Contexts and Violent Delinquency

Disability and child sexual abuse in institutional contexts

Political Participation in Local Government: Social and Institutional Contexts

for providing the survey data for this study. I would also like to thank Craig Donahue for compiling the city and county demographic measures used in the analyses.