The Impact of Community Building on Student Achievement
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2017
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Educational Studies
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This thesis looks at the impact of community building on student
achievement. The theoretical framework stems from Akerlof and
Kranton's paper on how student identity impacts schooling outcomes.
By combining economic and sociological theories, they argue that
community building increases student identification with school and
student achievement. Through a literature review, I categorize the
ways that schools build community. I then test Akerlof and Kranton's
theory that community building increases student identification and
achievement through a review of the literature and my own quantitative
analysis. I ultimately find that while community building
increases student identification, it does not increase achievement.