IMPACT OF SCHOOL QUALITY ON ADOLESCENTS

学校质量对青少年的影响

• 批准号: 6488168
• 负责人: BARBARA Sena MENSCH
• 金额: $ 10.82万
• 依托单位: POPULATION COUNCIL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-01 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6488168
• 关键词: Africa; academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); age at pregnancy; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; early experience; education evaluation /planning; female; human subject; interview; mental health epidemiology; outcomes research; secondary schools; sex behavior; student dropouts

DESCRIPTION: As in many other parts of the world, the rate of teenage childbearing outside of marriage is high in Kenya and on the rise. At the same time, adolescent girls are more likely to drop out of school prematurely than boys and are less likely to do well on the primarily school-leaving exams. While female attrition from school and premarital teen pregnancy are often linked in public discourse under the umbrella of "school-girl pregnancy," there has been little research, in contrast to the United States, that establishes the nature and strength of the association or its underlying determinants. Furthermore there has been no attention, either in Kenya or elsewhere, to the role of the school environment in affecting adolescent behavior despite the fact that school is a critical socializing institution, particularly in settings where mass education is a recent phenomenon. Using data on approximately 800 adolescents aged 12-19 and their parents in combination with data collected from 36 primarily schools in the same communities, this project is designed to fill this research gap. The focus of the project will be on the quality of primary schools not only because the majority of school-going adolescents are in primarily school but also because performance in primary school is crucial in determining the chances of further education. Specific objectives are to examine whether better school quality -- defined in terms of practices that enhance gender equity and develop cognitive competencies -- leads to (1) delayed sexual initiation, (2) reduced incidence of sexual harassment and forced sex, (3) greater knowledge of reproduction and reproductive health, (4) reduced incidence of premarital pregnancy and birth, (5) increased use of contraceptives, (6) reduced incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, (7) more regular school attendance, (8) more continuous enrollment, (9) more years of schooling, (10) better exam results, and (11) greater likelihood of secondary school attendance. In addition the impact of the quality of schools on the links between educational and reproductive outcomes will be investigated. This is the first time that such a comprehensive appraisal of schools -- involving observational assessment of classes and the larger school environment as well as structured interviews with students, teachers and principals -- has been implemented. In addition, this is the first time, for a developing country population, that full sexual and reproductive histories have been collected in combination with full educational histories enabling linkage of the timing of pregnancy and school dropout.

描述：与世界许多其他地区一样，少年的速度 肯尼亚的婚外生产量很高，而且兴起。 在 同时，青春期女孩更有可能辍学 比男孩过早，在主要的情况下表现不佳 学校学习考试。 而女性流失于学校和婚前 青少年怀孕通常在公共话语中与 “女生怀孕”，几乎没有研究，与 美国建立了协会的性质和力量 或它的基本决定因素。 此外，没有注意力， 在肯尼亚或其他地方，在学校环境中的作用 尽管学校是关键的事实，但影响青少年的行为 社交机构，尤其是在大规模教育是一个的环境中 最近的现象。 使用大约800名12-19岁的青少年的数据，他们的父母 结合从同一学校中的36所学校收集的数据结合 社区，该项目旨在填补这一研究空白。 重点 该项目的质量将是小学的质量，不仅是因为 大多数上学的青少年主要在学校，但也是 因为小学的表现对于确定机会至关重要 进一步的教育。 具体的目标是检查更好的学校质量 - 定义 在增强性别平等和发展认知的实践方面 能力 - 导致（1）延迟性启动，（2）减少 性骚扰和强迫性的发生率，（3）对 繁殖和生殖健康，（4）婚前发病率降低 怀孕和出生，（5）避孕药的使用增加，（6）减少 性传播疾病的发病率，（7）更多正规学校 出勤，（8）更多连续入学，（9）多年的教育， （10）更好的考试结果，（11）中学的可能性更大 出勤。 此外，学校质量对链接的影响 在教育和生殖结果之间将进行研究。 这是对学校进行如此全面评估的第一次 - 涉及班级和较大学校的观察评估 环境以及与学生，老师和 校长 - 已实施。 此外，这是第一次 对于发展中国家的人口，充分的性和生殖 与完整的教育历史结合结合了历史 实现怀孕和学校辍学时间的联系。