Hanging about with a 'bad crowd' can destroy a kid's future no matter how well parents have tried to instill educational values, etc. (Science Daily: Mathematical model reveals parental involvement can 'immunize' students from dropping out)
Newsflash for American high school students -- choose friends wisely, or they may end up costing you your education.
In fact, new mathematical modeling from Arizona State University, Northeastern Illinois University, and the University of Texas at Arlington documents the exact statistical tipping point when positive parental influence -- found to be the leading indicator of academic performance and whether or not a student will eventually graduate -- is effectively neutralized by negative peer influence.
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Parents know all that intuitively and the study is to try to understand the problem better.
Anuj Mubayi, now an assistant professor with ASU's School of Human Evolution and Social Change and ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center, initiated this research while teaching in Chicago after he and a colleague visited a local high school with a higher average dropout rate than 95% of the city.
The raw data for the study came from a 2013 survey sampling of 125 students at this particular school, Mubayi says. Areas of focus included teaching effectiveness, the role of school demographics, the impact of peer and parental influences, and academic performance.
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From that alone you see the school must be some kind of "To Sir with Love" hellhole and here's part of the thinking.
Based on these factors, variables such as parental involvement were categorized as high, medium or low , while academic involvement was rated as passing, vulnerable or failing. Social influences from peers was also measured on a sliding scale and was determined by asking students to identify their friends' academic performance and interest levels, as well as their exposure levels to peers who had already dropped out of school.
"In this instance, more than 50% of students reported their friends thought that school was a 'waste of time,'" Mubayi says.
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If any student begins to falter academically as a result of either or both influences, time is really of the essence, Mubayi adds. "Our study showed that once performance drops to a certain point, later increases in positive parental influence are no longer enough to reverse the trend and may even make things worse as the student rebels."
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That may sound hopeless but it's not when researchers study the problem to find ways to mitigate it. You have been a parent too long to expect an easy answer but you may be interested in how they pursue the research in the article.
Newsflash for American high school students -- choose friends wisely, or they may end up costing you your education.
In fact, new mathematical modeling from Arizona State University, Northeastern Illinois University, and the University of Texas at Arlington documents the exact statistical tipping point when positive parental influence -- found to be the leading indicator of academic performance and whether or not a student will eventually graduate -- is effectively neutralized by negative peer influence.
- SD
Parents know all that intuitively and the study is to try to understand the problem better.
Anuj Mubayi, now an assistant professor with ASU's School of Human Evolution and Social Change and ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center, initiated this research while teaching in Chicago after he and a colleague visited a local high school with a higher average dropout rate than 95% of the city.
The raw data for the study came from a 2013 survey sampling of 125 students at this particular school, Mubayi says. Areas of focus included teaching effectiveness, the role of school demographics, the impact of peer and parental influences, and academic performance.
- SD
From that alone you see the school must be some kind of "To Sir with Love" hellhole and here's part of the thinking.
Based on these factors, variables such as parental involvement were categorized as high, medium or low , while academic involvement was rated as passing, vulnerable or failing. Social influences from peers was also measured on a sliding scale and was determined by asking students to identify their friends' academic performance and interest levels, as well as their exposure levels to peers who had already dropped out of school.
"In this instance, more than 50% of students reported their friends thought that school was a 'waste of time,'" Mubayi says.
- SD
If any student begins to falter academically as a result of either or both influences, time is really of the essence, Mubayi adds. "Our study showed that once performance drops to a certain point, later increases in positive parental influence are no longer enough to reverse the trend and may even make things worse as the student rebels."
- SD
That may sound hopeless but it's not when researchers study the problem to find ways to mitigate it. You have been a parent too long to expect an easy answer but you may be interested in how they pursue the research in the article.
8 comments:
As a teen, I heard the "bad crowd" hung out at 110 Hosea. True
As a teen, I heard the "bad crowd" hung out at 110 Hosea. True
As a teen, I heard the "bad crowd" hung out at 110 Hosea. True
As a teen, I heard the "bad crowd" hung out at 110 Hosea. True
Sorry, that was my fault due to removing 'admin' status from your account as that forced moderation and the reason for doing it was so I would know you have written one.
That bad crowd from Hosea didn't do so badly (larfs).
Educationally that crowd fell on its face. Just count 4 year university degrees 1 in 6 for the residents. 3 of 9 for the chess players
As for where the "bad crowd" hung out, I seem to remember Mrs Muldrow questioning what happened at a house near the corner of Riddle and McMicken.
That was a terrible crowd and I've kicked myself all my life because I didn't go when that lot went down to see Genesis in Nashville. Such a bad crowd (larfs).
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