@article {Furgione:2018:1323-577X:51,
title = "Whats on Your Plate?: Correlating Subsidized Lunch and Proficiency on the Civics End-of-Course Assessment",
journal = "Educational Practice and Theory",
parent_itemid = "infobike://jnp/ept",
publishercode ="jnp",
year = "2018",
volume = "40",
number = "1",
publication date ="2018-06-01T00:00:00",
pages = "51-66",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1323-577X",
eissn = "2201-0599",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/jnp/ept/2018/00000040/00000001/art00004",
doi = "doi:10.7459/ept/40.1.04",
keyword = "achievement, poverty, social studies, standardized test scores, civics, end-of-course (EOC) assessments, socioeconomic status",
author = "Furgione, Brian and Evans, Kelsey and Ghimire, Nirmal and Thripp, Richard and Russell, William B",
abstract = "In this study, the authors correlate proficiency rates of seventh-grade civics students to free and reduced-priced (FRPL) lunch status during the 20152016 school year at the school level, across all 348 Florida schools for which both statistics were applicable and available.
The authors used simple linear regression to test the null hypothesis that the authors cannot predict seventh-grade civics EOC exam proficiency rates based on school-level FRPL rates. The regression will compare the percentage of seventh-grade civics students who achieved proficiency on the
EOC assessments and their schools percentages of FRPL students. The authors found a correlation of very large effect size (R2 = .614) between percentage of FRPL students and percentage of proficient seventh-grade civics students. If FRPL status is accepted as a proxy for socioeconomic
status, this implies that students from schools with lower socioeconomic status are much less likely to succeed on their seventh-grade civics EOC assessment, consistent with past research on academic achievement and socioeconomic status.",
}