The Effects of Deeper Learning Opportunities on Student Achievement: Examining Differential Pathways

• In Event: Social and Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement

Abstract

This study investigated direct and indirect relations between cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal opportunities, non-cognitive outcomes, and student achievement outcomes. Participants are 1,019 11th grade students from 20 California schools (10 network, 10 non-network) who participated in the Study of Deeper Learning. A series of six 2-level multi-group structural equation models (SEM) were conducted to test a theoretical model that hypothesizes plausible pathways between deeper learning to interpersonal, intrapersonal, and cognitive outcomes. Further, I examined differences in these relations between network and matched non-network schools. Interpersonal outcomes (such as collaboration) were significant in predicting mathematics achievement in the DL schools.

Author

• Erin R Ottmar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute