ERIC Number: EJ1460052
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Mar
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0033-3085
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The Ecosystem of Middle School Math Achievement: Intersections of Student Demographic, Parent, and School Factors
Garret J. Hall; Sabina Low; Keith Smolkowski; Andy Garbacz
Psychology in the Schools, v62 n3 p678-689 2025
Ecological factors, such as family involvement and school context, are important to consider in understanding middle schoolers' math development. In this study, we examined the relations of middle school student-reported parental monitoring and school climate as well as school-averaged teacher reports of school organizational health (OH) to students' math growth from grades 6-8. We also examined whether student-reported race and ethnicity and perceived financial security moderated the relations of climate, monitoring, and OH to math growth and achievement. Participants were 12,821 middle school students and their teachers in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Our findings indicate that students who reported more parental monitoring in Grade 6 had detectably higher math scores in Grade 8, but monitoring did not relate to math growth, nor did student-reported perceptions of school climate in Grade 6. We observed that OH in earlier middle school predicted math growth through Grade 8. We did not find evidence of differential relations of these variables to math achievement level or growth across students' self-reported race and ethnicity and perceived financial security. We discuss contributions of these findings to research and practice as well as limitations and future directions.
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement, Intersectionality, Parent Influence, School Role, Student Characteristics, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Family Involvement, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Education, Organizational Climate, Grade 6, Grade 8, Parent Role, Scores
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Elementary Education; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades; Grade 8
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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