79.025 - On Track to Graduation in Philadelphia: Extending Research by Partnerships in Other Cities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this session is to highlight how a research-practice partnership in Philadelphia built on and extended findings from research partnerships in other cities. The session will illustrate how, in addition to supporting research use by education agencies, research-practice partnerships (1) contribute to generalizable knowledge and theoretical development and (2) build on findings across cities, testing and modifying understandings of relationships in education. The session includes four presentations of original research from Philadelphia. Each presenter will explain how the work built on research from partnerships in Chicago and elsewhere; identify consistencies of approach and findings to other partnerships’ work; and show how the paper seeks to advance empirical and theoretical understandings to benefit practice in Philadelphia and beyond.

Sub Unit

• Division H - Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools / Division H - Section 3: Assessment in Schools

Chair

• Joy Lesnick, School District of Philadelphia

Papers

• Ready From the Start: Identifying and Supporting At-Risk Ninth Graders From Their Earliest Days in High School - Ruth Curran Neild, Independent Consultant; Molly Pileggi, Research for Action

• Getting on Track to Graduation: Ninth Graders' Credit Accumulation in Philadelphia - Molly Pileggi, Research for Action; Ruth Curran Neild, Independent Consultant

• Ninth-Grade Attendance in Philadelphia: How Detailed Trajectories Relate to Student Outcomes - Theodore W. Wills, School Distrcit of Philadelphia

• Using District-Wide Student Survey Data to Understand the Relationship Between School Climate and Ninth-Grade On-Track - Adrienne Reitano, School District of Philadelphia

Discussant

• Alex Seeskin, University of Chicago