Issues in the Measurement of Contextual Effects: Homogeneity of Associations and Multiple Reference Populations.

Autor/in	Karweit, Nancy
Institution	Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD. Center for the Study of Social Organization of Schools.
Titel	Issues in the Measurement of Contextual Effects: Homogeneity of Associations and Multiple Reference Populations.
Quelle	(1977), (42 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Environment; Friendship; Group Dynamics; Group Membership; High School Students; Peer Groups; Peer Relationship; Reference Groups; Research Design; Research Methodology; Research Problems; Secondary Education; Social Systems; Student Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Freundschaft; Gruppendynamik; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Gleichaltrigengruppe; Peer Group; Peer-Beziehungen; Reference group; Bezugsgruppe; Forschungsdesign; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Forschungskritik; Sekundarbereich; Social system; Soziales System
Abstract	An argument is made against the use of school averages as composition measures by documenting the non-random nature of peer associations and by presenting evidence that different students are influenced by different reference groups. The structure of friendship associations among some 20,000 students in the McDill Twenty High School Sample is examined to illustrate the sources of homogeneity among high school acquaintances. These data are then examined to show that different students in schools are influenced by different reference groups that are visible and meaningful to them. The study concludes that school averages are insufficient and substantively weak measures of how individual students experience their school situation. (Author/EVH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC