Jan N. Hughes|Myung Hee Im|Paula J. Allee
Effect of school belonging trajectories in grades 6–8 on achievement: Gender and ethnic differences
Mitchell Institute|Texas A&M University|Mitchell Institute|Texas A&M University|Mitchell Institute|Texas A&M University
study investigated association trajectories school belonging across grades 68 academic achievement grade 8 ethnically diverse sample 527 academically atrisk adolescents students reported annually school belonging reading math achievement assessed grade 5 baseline grade 8 interactive effects gender ethnicity found conditional growth models school belonging girls ethnicities identical growth trajectories reported higher initial school belonging euroamerican latino boys latino euroamerican males lower initial level school belonging african american males latino males lower growth school belonging euroamerican males structural equation modeling sem analyses initial level school belonging predicted grade 8 reading girls grade 8 math boys girls prior achievement school child covariates growth school belonging predicted grade 8 achievement african american students implications strategies improve school belonging among academically atrisk youth discussed