July 2003
 

Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the
Rural School Association of New York State
Cooperstown, NY
 
By

The RSA Research Committee and
John W. Sipple, Assistant Professor
Lehn Benjamin, PhD Candidate
Lauren Faessler, PhD Candidate
Cornell University

  
The RSA and the authors welcome discussion and critique of this study and its conclusions.

[The study report as provided here is broken into segments for faster download and display, but is also available as a continuous document: study-final.htm (NB: this file is quite large, nearly one megabyte, ~3 minutes@56bps!) Ed.]

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John W. Sipple, Ph.D.
421 Kennedy Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Contents

Executive Summary of Findings
Introduction
Data and Analytic Methods
   Outcome Indicators
   Demographic and Fiscal Indicators
Findings
  Elementary ELA Performance
  Elementary Math Performance
  Middle Grade ELA Performance
  Middle Grade Math Performance
  High School English Performance
  High School Completion
Conclusions

Appendix
  Display of Variation Across Districts by Year and Urbanicity
  Multivariate Regression Tables
  Individual School District Profiles
  [NB: ~ 200kb file — 30s. @ 56kbps]

 
Figures and Tables

Figure 1 - 4th GRADE ELA Performance by Year and Urbanicity
Figure 2 - 4th ELA AYP for Rural Districts
Figure 3 - 4th Grade Mathematics Performance by Year and Urbanicity
Figure 4 - 8th Grade ELA Performance by Year and Urbanicity
Figure 5 - 8th Grade Mathematics Performance by Year and Urbanicity
Figure 6 - English Regents Performance (SPI) by Year and Urbanicity
Figure 7a - Percent of Students Passing Regents English Exam With Scores 55-64
Figure 7b - Percent and St. Dev. of Students Scoring < 65 on Regents English Exam
Figure 8 - Percent Regents Diploma by Year by Urbanicity
TABLE 1 - 1998 Cohort Outcomes (2002) by Urbanicity
Figure 9 – 1998 Cohort Outcomes in 2002 for Rural Districts

Notes

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