Author : Yifei Chen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (863 download)
Book Synopsis The Relationship Between Cultural Participation and Student Achievement by : Yifei Chen
Download or read book The Relationship Between Cultural Participation and Student Achievement written by Yifei Chen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting places like museums is universally seen as beneficial to children, but more information is needed to determine the specific relationship between cultural participation outside school and students' academic performance in school. Cultural participation is typically characterized as involvement in cultural institutions such as libraries, bookstores, museums, and concerts. I used data from the Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey (PFI) developed by The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to explore the relationship between visiting cultural institutions and students' academic achievement. I hypothesized that a higher frequency of visiting cultural institutions is associated with achieving higher grades at school. Visits to cultural institutions were used as a proxy for cultural participation; and students' academic performance was measured by self-reported GPA. I find evidence of a moderate positive relationship between cultural participation and student achievement.