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An Analysis of Race and Gender in Select Choice Programs Within Brevard County Public Schools
- Date Issued:
- 2014
- Abstract/Description:
- The focus of this research was to compare the student membership population proportions, by race and gender, of Brevard County Public School students with the actual participation in select choice programs offered to Brevard County public high school students. This study was based on an analysis of the scores of 1,152 eighth-grade students who received a score of 4 or 5 on the 2008 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) mathematics and a score of 4 or 5 on the 2008 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) reading and their participation in high school advanced academic courses. The advanced academic choice programs selected for this study consisted of the four Florida articulated accelerated college credit seeking programs: Advanced Placement (AP), Dual-Enrollment (DE), International Baccalaureate(&)#174; (IB) Diploma Programme, and the Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE). The proportion comparison consisted of student membership data and eighth-grade FCAT scores from 2007-2008 and the student membership data and high school course load data from the 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, and 2011-2012 academic school years. Chi-square goodness-of-fit tests were run to analyze the proportions by race and gender of the sample groups and student membership populations. For each respective year involved in this study, there was a statistically significant difference in the race and gender proportions of the samples and the student membership populations.
Title: | An Analysis of Race and Gender in Select Choice Programs Within Brevard County Public Schools. |
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Name(s): |
Doaks, Synthia, Author Murray, Barbara, Committee Chair Murray, Kenneth, Committee Member Baldwin, Lee, Committee Member Thedy, Elizabeth, Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Date Issued: | 2014 | |
Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
Language(s): | English | |
Abstract/Description: | The focus of this research was to compare the student membership population proportions, by race and gender, of Brevard County Public School students with the actual participation in select choice programs offered to Brevard County public high school students. This study was based on an analysis of the scores of 1,152 eighth-grade students who received a score of 4 or 5 on the 2008 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) mathematics and a score of 4 or 5 on the 2008 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) reading and their participation in high school advanced academic courses. The advanced academic choice programs selected for this study consisted of the four Florida articulated accelerated college credit seeking programs: Advanced Placement (AP), Dual-Enrollment (DE), International Baccalaureate(&)#174; (IB) Diploma Programme, and the Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE). The proportion comparison consisted of student membership data and eighth-grade FCAT scores from 2007-2008 and the student membership data and high school course load data from the 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, and 2011-2012 academic school years. Chi-square goodness-of-fit tests were run to analyze the proportions by race and gender of the sample groups and student membership populations. For each respective year involved in this study, there was a statistically significant difference in the race and gender proportions of the samples and the student membership populations. | |
Identifier: | CFE0005325 (IID), ucf:50509 (fedora) | |
Note(s): |
2014-08-01 Ed.D. Education and Human Performance, Teaching, Learning and Leadership Doctoral This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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Subject(s): | Advanced Placement -- AICE -- AP -- Brevard -- Brevard Public County Schools -- Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education -- Central Florida -- Choice -- Chi square goodness of fit -- dual enrollment -- Expectancy Theory -- Florida -- gender -- International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme -- IB -- public school choice -- proportion comparison -- proportions -- race -- Vroom -- Victor Vroom | |
Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005325 | |
Restrictions on Access: | public 2014-08-15 | |
Host Institution: | UCF |