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Peter Hull; Joshua Angrist; Parag Pathak; Christopher R. Walters; Talia Gerstle; Russell Legate-Yang – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background/Context: Many states, school districts, and third-party platforms report measures of school performance. Such school ratings are widely consulted by parents and educators alike. The ratings appear to affect families' choices of where to live and where to enroll students (Bergman and Hill, 2018; Hasan and Kumar, 2019), as well as…
Descriptors: Race, Student Diversity, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation
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Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Borch, Casey – Developmental Psychology, 2013
This study examined the dynamics of popularity in adolescent friendship networks across 3 years in middle school. Longitudinal social network modeling was used to identify selection and influence in the similarity of popularity among friends. It was argued that lower status adolescents strive to enhance their status through befriending higher…
Descriptors: Friendship, Middle School Students, Adolescent Attitudes, Social Networks
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Menzer, Melissa M.; McDonald, Kristina L.; Rubin, Kenneth H.; Rose-Krasnor, Linda; Booth-LaForce, Cathryn; Schulz, Annie – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2012
We evaluated whether gossip between best friends moderated the relation between anxious withdrawal and friendship quality in early adolescence, using an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model ("APIM," Kenny, Kashy, & Cook, 2006) approach. Participants (n = 256) were 5th and 6th grade young adolescents (actors) and their best friends…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Withdrawal (Psychology), Friendship, Early Adolescents