Is Responsiveness to Student Voice Related to Academic Outcomes? Strengthening the Rationale for Student Voice in School Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11366258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Kahne (0000-0002-7236-1636, University of California, Riverside, corresponding author), Benjamin Bowyer (0000-0002-7696-9956, University of California, Riverside), Jessica Marshall (0009-0001-8234-6077), Erica Hodgin (University of California, Riverside) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 389-415 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-6744 • E-ISSN: 1549-6511 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/719121 |
| OpenAlex | W4221122891 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 40 |
Purpose: Drawing on relevant literature, we conceptualize three pathways through which responsiveness to student voice may promote academic goals. Then, we analyze panel data of students in the Chicago Public Schools to examine this relationship. We focus on the “responsiveness” of teachers and administrators to student voice, because prior work has highlighted that opportunities for student voice are often symbolic. Our central goal is to examine whether responsiveness to student voice is related to academic outcomes. Research Methods/Approach: We draw upon student records collected in Chicago Public Schools from the 2017–18 and 2018–19 school years, as well as students’ responses to questions administered in the district’s 2019 5Essentials Survey. We estimate models of the effect of responsiveness to student voice on students’ ninth-grade academic outcomes, controlling for students’ eighth-grade attendance and grade point average. Findings: In schools that students regard as responsive to their expressed critiques, students have better grades and attendance and reduced rates of chronic absenteeism. This is the first large-scale study employing panel data to examine the relationships between responsiveness to student voice and academic performance. Implications: Proponents of student voice have long emphasized its benefits in terms of democratic values and respect for the full humanity of young people. Scholars argue these benefits may be particularly important for students from marginalized communities. This study indicates that there are academic benefits as well. However, future studies are warranted to deepen our understanding of the mechanisms through which responsiveness to student voice yields valued benefits
Absenteeism · Academic achievement · Accountability · Attendance · Mathematics education · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Student engagement · Early Childhood Education and Development · Education Discipline and Inequality · Medicine · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Emotional Dimension of Enacting Student Voice Practices in Primary Physical Education
Creating an inclusive school community
With or without you? Exploring student perception survey assessment data as a teacher-student (un)shared process
Introducing the Special Issue
Encouraging Teacher Readiness for Designing Student Voice Practices
Student leadership in family-school partnerships
“We Want to Be Seen, Not Surveilled”
What Is Student Voice Anyway? The Intersection of Student Voice Practices and Shared Leadership
A scoping review of student involvement in curriculum development and reform
The pedagogical foundations of student voice practices
Policy as cultural artefact
Does the Student Human Rights Ordinance Make a Difference for Schools and Students? Evidence from South Korea
Can We Talk for a Minute? Understanding Asset-Based Mechanisms for Academic Achievement from the Voices of High-Achieving Black Students
The Relationship Between Student Voice and Student Engagement in Urban High Schools
Programs and Practices to Promote a Safe Campus
The New Meaning of Educational Change
Fluid Borders
The Significance of Students
Identity, Belonging, and Achievement
School Characteristics Related to High School Dropout Rates
Civic Participation Reimagined
A Systematic Review of Youth Participatory Action Research (Ypar) in the United States
Putting Students at the Centre in Education Reform
Effects of student participation in decision making at school. A systematic review and synthesis of empirical research
Black and Belonging at School
A Review of School Climate Research
Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4
Pupil Participation and Pupil Perspective
Rethinking diversity
Youth Participation in U.S. Contexts
The School's Role in Developing Civic Engagement
School students' views on school councils and daily life at school
We Want to do More Than Survive
The Role of Sociopolitical Attitudes and Civic Education in the Civic Engagement of Black Youth
Voice’ is not enough
I look deep into this stuff because it’s a part of me”
Democratic School Climate and Sense of Community in School
What Do Test Scores Miss? The Importance of Teacher Effects on Non–Test Score Outcomes
Authorizing Students’ Perspectives
Connecting Entrance and Departure
Can a Positive School Climate Promote Student Attendance? Evidence From New York City
Matters of participation
Democracy remixed
Schooling as a Formative Political Experience
Sound, Presence, and Power
Bowling Young
Voices we want to hear and voices we don't
Participation in Liberal Democracy
Strengthening Student Voice Initiatives in High Schools
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |