Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine whether mobility has an adverse effect on the academic performance of students and whether possible adverse effects can be attributed to the students' social class, sex, and/or ethnic group. For all 1686 sixth-grade students in an eastern city of 130,000 information on student mobility, social class, sex, ethnicity, and scores on the SRA Assessment Survey (Naslund, Thorpe, & Welty, 1978) were noted from school records. Those students who had changed attendance tracts scored significantly lower on the SRA Assessment Survey than did their peers who moved from city to city or who had remained within a single attendance tract. It appears that some types of mobility may be harmful to academic achievement while other types of mobility may not be deleterious to school achievement.
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