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Article: School performance: Correlation of aggregate school district performance with teacher attitudes in sixty-two Pennsylvania school districts
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- Educational Research Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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The school district-wide performance ofstudents in 62 school districts in Pennsylvania in reading, mathematics, analytic thinking, and writing was correlated with aggregate measures of teacher perceptions and satisfaction. Using a conservative alpha level, the only significant correlation was between school district-wide performance ofstudents in reading with aggregate teachers ' perceptions of community support. Using a less-conservative alpha level, aggregate teacher perceptions of community support, the adequacy ofservices for special needs students, and student behavior correlated with measures of school district-wide student performance. The author suggests involving the whole ...