Factors in achievement and attrition in Spanish at Grade Nine in Jamaican high schools
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oai:oai:uwispace.sta.uwi.edu:2139:2139-535252022-01-18T18:12:32Z Factors in achievement and attrition in Spanish at Grade Nine in Jamaican high schools Salmon, Hazel M. Academic achievement This study sought, at one level, to identify the relationship of selected variables to achievement in Spanish and, at the other, to ascertain important influences in attrition in the study of Spanish. Level 1 investigated the total sample of 337 Grade 9 secondary school students of Spanish, as well as sub-samples created by sex and school location and, following entry to Grade 10, by dropout and persistence. Level 2 studied the group of 182 dropouts and 47 teachers of Spanish. Results of the data analysis indicated that, at Level 1: 1) self-concept of ability followed by convergent thinking ability were the main predictors of Spanish achievement; 2) there were highly significant sex differences favouring boys on cognitive, environmental, and achievement variables, and girls on affective and instructional ones; 3) there were distinct patterns of behaviour for school location, with each sub-group emerging strongest on a separate dimension: small town - instructional; large town - affective and personality; and metropolitan - environmental and cognitive; and 4) persisters were favoured over non-persisters on achievement and on all dimensions of independent variables, excluding the environmental dimension. At Level 2, the results showed that: 1) the main contributors to attrition appeared to be low achievement and learning difficulty; students' emerging feelings between grades consistently declined relative to achievement; 2) significant sex differences revealed female disenchantment with Spanish, but a higher level of female commitment to Spanish; and 3) school location differences signaled the greatest tendency among the metropolitan sample, and the least among the large-town group, towards defection from Spanish 2022-01-18T18:12:32Z 2022-01-18T18:12:32Z 1986 Ph.D. 1426 http://hdl.handle.net/2139/53525 Main Library, UWISA - UWI Theses Collection |
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