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- Title
ACHIEVEMENT GROWTH IN PUBLIC AND CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.
- Authors
Hoffer, Thomas; Greeley, Andrew M.; Coleman, James S.
- Abstract
This article brings together independent longitudinal extensions of Greeley's (1982) and Coleman, Hoffer, and Kilgore's (1982b) analyses of public-school and Catholic-school student achievement differences. Drawing on a variety of analytic techniques, we find that Catholic schools have a positive effect on verbal and mathematics achievement growth from the sophomore to senior year of high school. The magnitude of the Catholic-school effects ranges from about one-half to one grade equivalent for students of average background. The Catholic-school effects are larger for black, Hispanic, and lower-SES students, and somewhat smaller for white and higher-SES students. We find that Catholic schools produce higher- achieving students because they place more students in academic programs, require more semesters of academic coursework, and assign more homework.
- Subjects
CATHOLIC schools; PUBLIC schools; ACADEMIC achievement; STUDY skills; VERBAL ability; HOMEWORK
- Publication
Sociology of Education, 1985, Vol 58, Issue 2, p74
- ISSN
0038-0407
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2112249