Student Mobility During High School: Does It Affect Graduation Outcomes?

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dc.contributor.advisorHeck, Ronald H.
dc.contributor.authorKaneshiro-Erdmann, Wanelle
dc.contributor.departmentEducation
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-03T19:55:25Z
dc.date.available2022-03-03T19:55:25Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractIn Hawaiʻi, approximately one in ten students enrolled in a public high school at the start of their ninth-grade year transfer to another school at least once. Previous research suggests that student mobility can adversely affect student learning and increase the risk of students dropping out. Students who are mobile become disengaged with school and fail to graduate on time. This study examined the relationship between student mobility and graduation outcomes to determine if further attention to student mobility in Hawaiʻi is warranted. To examine the impact of student mobility on graduation outcomes, this study incorporated a cross-classified multiple-membership model. Previous studies either removed the mobile students from their model or included the school-level predictors of only one school to determine the impact of student mobility, failing to recognize that a student’s experience in all schools attended affect the student’s disposition towards education. The multiple-membership approach allowed for the inclusion of predictors of each school in which a mobile student was enrolled as one weighted data point for each school-level predictor to provide more accurate estimates of multiple school effects on student on-time graduation. The utilization of the cross-classified multiple-membership model provided a better understanding of how student mobility, which leads to multiple configurations of students within schools, impacts graduation outcomes. The results of this study revealed that student mobility did significantly impact graduation outcomes across Hawaiʻi’s public high schools, decreasing a student’s odds of graduating on time. Thus, to increase graduation rates across the state, the appropriate supports and services must be provided for mobile students to facilitate student success.
dc.description.degreePh.D.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/81635
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.subjectEducational administration
dc.titleStudent Mobility During High School: Does It Affect Graduation Outcomes?
dc.typeThesis
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local.identifier.alturihttp://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:11234

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