How the Context of Educational Decision-Making Influences Student Well-Being

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research-in-Progress Session 4
  In Roundtable Session: Community Context and Engagement in Research on Student Educational Experiences and Well-Being (Table 2)

Abstract

Using administrative and survey data from a large urban school district in the southeastern United States, this project aims to better understand how district-level processes of school sorting are impacting student's well-being in both their school and neighborhood communities and how these factors operate in tandem to shape students' long term academic outcomes. Outcomes vary based on the demographic characteristics of both the student and the neighborhood in which they live. Preliminary analyses have demonstrated that students from the highest poverty communities are the only group to see their perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion decrease in response to attending a non-neighborhood school. As this work continues, I hope to explore other factors at the school level influencing enrollment patterns.

Author

• Eli Rolfes, Vanderbilt University