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THE MIDDLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: A CASE STUDY
by
Jami Ware Parsons
__________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Jami Ware Parsons
Object Description
| Title | The middle college high school: a case study |
| Author | Parsons, Jami Ware |
| Author email | jparsons@lagunabeachschools.org; jwparson@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-05-01 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-07-19 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Picus, Lawerence O. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hentschke, Gilbert Nelson, John L. |
| Abstract | Unrestricted This descriptive-analytic case study was conducted in one Middle College High School in a large K-12 school district located in a higher Socio-economic status community in the western portion of Orange County, a large metropolitan suburb of Los Angeles in Southern California. The district and school were selected on the basis of: (a) A district and school that has a Middle College High School option available for students (b) A district and school that has a relationship with a community college which supports its mission through the shared use of resources and facilities and (c) A district and school that has the capacity in funding, infrastructure, people and professional development to support this alternative offering. ❧ The purpose of this study was to identify and examine the strengths and weaknesses of the leadership and organizational structure, processes and student level resource allocations at an alternative learning design high school, which provides a wide variety of learners the opportunity for concurrent enrollment in both high school and college level courses, and its perceived causality with regard to student achievement. The focus was to better understand the relationship between the variables of leadership, organizational structure, financial and human resource allocation and student achievement, with a special focus on graduation rates and college going rates for the non-traditional, at-risk or minority student.; This study used conceptual frameworks developed to guide data collection and analysis for four research questions: (a) How is this school organized to maximize student achievement? (b) How does the school choose to allocate financial and human resources in order to maximize student achievement? the How is the structure funded? and (d) How would this program be brought to scale in other settings?; The data indicated that the district and school were not adhering completely to the National Middle College Consortium rubric in that students accepted into the program are not ethnically diverse or first generation college students. The students are not making as much academic progress as might be expected due to their comparatively low mathematics scores on both state standardized assessments and on college readiness assessments such as the S.A.T. In contrast, their graduation rates and drop out rates are impressive with all students graduating and no students dropping out of school. With regard to resource allocations, the program is costly for the K-12 school district compared to the cost of educating students at the traditional comprehensive high schools, yet more than pays for itself with regard to the costs incurred by the community college. |
| Keyword | middle college high school; academic pipeline; P-16 education; at risk students; alternative high school; secondary school reform |
| Geographic subject (county) | Orange |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m623 |
| Rights | Parsons, Jami Ware |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Parsons-20070719 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Parsons-20070719.pdf |
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| Full text | THE MIDDLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: A CASE STUDY by Jami Ware Parsons __________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2007 Copyright 2007 Jami Ware Parsons |
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