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    Schools in rural Alaska with higher rates of student achievement: a search for positive deviance in education

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    Hill, Melissa M.
    Chair
    Jacobsen, Gary
    Committee
    Adams, Barbara
    Richey, Jean
    Barnhardt, Ray
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7608
    Abstract
    This study sought to identify schools in rural Alaska with higher rates of student achievement and study what factors contribute to that success. Alaska Native students make up a large majority of the students attending school in small remote villages across the state. Data, however, have shown that Alaska Native students constantly perform lower than any other demographic group on every subject level and lower at every grade level when tested using state assessments. This study begins with a journey to understand the complexity of the problems that affect schooling in rural Alaska, ranging from teacher turnover to school district size and oversight. However, it is important to examine this current challenge by examining the history of education and how that history has affected Alaska Native people today. To identify schools in rural Alaska with higher rates of student achievement, a binary variable was used to determine positive deviance. Data analysis drew on academic achievement of each school as measured by the 5-year average score of the school in three subjects: Reading, Mathematics and Writing. While the results did not yield a case study for positive deviance, the findings and conclusion, using a critical race theory lens question whether schools today, intentionally or unintentionally, are still modeled after the same framework and operate in the same fashion as they did when they were intended to assimilate Alaska Natives to become better citizens. Using an advocacy worldview, this study draws upon the unchallenged truth that schools in rural Alaska may never perform as a collective as well as or better than their urban counterparts under this model.
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    Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2017
    Date
    2017-05
    Type
    Dissertation
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    Communication
    Interdisciplinary Studies
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