A Study of the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) Program and Student Self-Efficacy and Academic Achievement: An Exploration with Middle and High School Students
Year: 2012
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This research study examined the impact of the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program on students' self-efficacy and academic achievement outcome measures at the middle and high school level.AVID is a college readiness system designed to prepare at-risk students in the fourth through 12 th grade for college.The main focus of this study was to determine if there was a difference in students' selfefficacy based on the number of years in the AVID program and if there was a difference in AVID students' academic achievement outcome measures between seventh and eighth grade in reading and math.Participants included seventh through 11 th grade AVID students in one suburban school district within northeast Ohio (N = 239).These students reported perceptions of their self-efficacy on the My Voice Survey (QISA, 2010).Student achievement data were obtained from the 2010-2011 Ohio Department of Education Local Report Card.Through multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) the data were analyzed.Findings from this study indicated that there were statistically significant differences in students' self-efficacy based on the number of years in the AVID program and statistically significant differences in academic achievement outcome measures between seventh and eighth grade for AVID students in reading and math.AVID students' CHAPTER I
Author: Kimberly S. Monachino
Institution: University of Akron
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W175307851