The purpose of this study is to review the literature on the most accurate indicators of
students at risk of dropping out of high school. We used Relative Operating Characteristic …

The terrain of gender inequalities in education has seen much change in recent decades.
This article reviews the empirical research and theoretical perspectives on gender …

Very few studies on intergenerational achievement consider the high correlation between
separate measures of parental socioeconomic position and possible life course variation in …

Only 150 years ago, the majority of the world's population was largely illiterate. Today, not
only do most people over fifteen have basic reading and writing skills, but 20 percent of the …

Student transition into higher education has increased in importance in recent times, with the
growing trend in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development nations towards …

Objective To examine the prevalence and identify correlates of food insecurity among
students attending a rural university in Oregon. Methods Cross-sectional nonprobability …

Grading refers to the symbols assigned to individual pieces of student work or to composite
measures of student performance on report cards. This review of over 100 years of research …

Prior research on the association of mental health and behavior problems with academic
achievement is limited because it does not consider multiple problems simultaneously, take …

This article proposes several conceptual perspectives designed to advance our
understanding of the material and experiential conditions contributing to persistent …

The life course paradigm has replaced child‐based, growth‐oriented (“ontogenetic”)
accounts of the person with models that emphasize the timing, social context, and …