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Poor Student Academic Achievement Research Study
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Poor Student Academic Achievement Research Study
Problem Statement: The problem of poor academic achievement of middle school students will be addressed in this study. It aims to correlate this with socioeconomic factors affecting students’ performance on multiple academic metrics.
Best Practices to Address the Problem: The best practice to this problem is the adoption of focused strategies. For instance, after school tutoring and mentoring programs entail supplementary academic assistance and have been identified to reduce some impacts of SES disparities on performance.
Hypothesis: The present study is based on the hypothesis that middle school students from lower SES perform better if they are provided with targeted academic interventions than the ones not provided with targeted academic interventions. Benefits possibly accruing from such interventions may also be stronger among students with higher levels of absenteeism and, therefore, ongoing participation in supportive programs will further raise academic performance.
Study Population: The Montgomery County school district in Alabama will serve as the focus of the study, with middle school students of varying socioeconomic status. It will have a range of academic performance level students to determine the scope of how economic status affects achievement.
Brief Plan of Action: An appropriate quasi-experimental design will be applied, in which students are divided into two groups, comprising those who have been subjected to an Academic Intervention Program and those who have not. Data on performance should be collected both at the beginning of the year and towards the end to help in measuring the impact that might have been brought about by the interventions. The performance of the students in the intervention group against the control group will be compared using a statistical analysis.
