Incorporating Student Mobility in Studying Academic Growth in Math: Comparing Several Alternative Multilevel Formulations

Ronald Heck*, Tingting Reid, George B Leckie

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Abstract

Increasing pupil mobility has led to widespread concern among parents, educators, and policymakers regarding its negative effects on academic performance. An important issue in examining mobility effects in longitudinal school achievement comparisons is providing accurate estimates. The presence of pupil mobility suggests that we should model pupils as belonging to the series of schools attended and not just their first or final school. We discuss several challenges in accounting for student mobility and, because of the presence of mobile pupils, how to represent the contribution of multiple schools attended on estimating academic growth properly. We then contrast several previous longitudinal multilevel models utilized with two cross-classified multiple membership (CCMM) models, which have been proposed to cumulate annual school effects on pupils’ academic growth better given the complexity of the multilevel data structure. We discuss our results in terms of their theoretical and practical implications for research on school academic improvement.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)516-543
Number of pages28
JournalSchool Effectiveness and School Improvement
Volume33
Issue number4
Early online date17 Apr 2022
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 17 Apr 2022

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© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Research Groups and Themes

  • SoE Centre for Multilevel Modelling

Keywords

  • student mobility
  • growth model
  • school improvement
  • cross-classified model
  • multiple membership model

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