Education (Collateral): School Attendance and Grades - Collateral Baseline
This measure appears in the following time-points: Collat_baseline.
Related Construct
Description of Measure
The section is comprised of a set of questions regarding school attendance and grades.
One item is computed for this measure:
- Number of days attended school [c0dem35r]
The following individual items are also available:
- Subject attending school as of their interview date or prior to going to placement [C0_Dem26]
- If not attending now, how long ago (before interview date) did he/she attend school regularly [C0_C1Q180_NDay]
- Whether the subject dropped out of school for good [C0_C1Q182]
- Has the subject obtained a GED [C0_Dem27]
- Highest grade subject completed [C0_Dem28]
- Average grades in school [C0_Dem29]
- Days a month missed school [C0_Dem35]
- Ever suspended [C0_Dem30]
- If suspended, number of times [C0_Dem31]
- Ever expelled [C0_Dem33]
- If expelled, number of times [C0_Dem34]
- When was the last time the subject went to school [C0_Sch6]
- Average number of hours per week spent doing homework [C0_Sch7]
References
- Eccles, J.S., Wigfield, A., & Schiefele, U., (1998). Motivation to succeed. In W. Damon (Series Ed.) and N. Eisenberg (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of child psychology (5th ed., Vol. III, pp. 1017-1095). New York: Wiley.
- Cernkovich, S. and Giordano, P. (1992). School bonding, race and delinquency. Criminology, 30(2), 261-291.