- Arts Involvement Has Positive Impact
On Students of All Socio-Economic Levels
-
- These statistics, first released in 1997, are based on the
study of
- over 25,000 students, tracked for several years. The authors
of the
- study incorporated data from students of all ethnic and
economic
- backgrounds so the study would not be biased.
-
- The study also looked at students of low socio-economic status
both as
- part of the entire student population, and separately, to see
if arts
- education had a significant impact upon students of low
socio-economic
- status. Here are the results.
-
- "SES" refers to socio-economic status.
- "Arts" refers to experience or coursework in performing or
visual
- arts either in school or outside of school.
-
- GRADE 8 ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
-
- Earning mostly As and Bs in English:
- All Students High Arts 79.2%
- All Students Low Arts 64.2%
- Low SES High Arts 64.5%
- Low SES Low Arts 56.4%
-
- Scoring in top 2 quartiles on standardized tests:
- All Students High Arts 66.8%
- All Students Low Arts 42.7%
- Low SES High Arts 29.5%
- Low SES Low Arts 24.5%
-
- Dropping out by grade 10:
- All Students High Arts 1.4%
- All Students Low Arts 4.8%
- Low SES High Arts 6.5%
- Low SES Low Arts 9.4%
-
-
- GRADE 10 ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
-
- Scoring in top 2 quartiles, Grade 10 Standardized Test
Composite:
- All Students High Arts 72.5%
- All Students Low Arts 45.0%
- Low SES High Arts 41.4%
- Low SES Low Arts 24.9%
-
- Scoring in top 2 quartiles in Reading:
- All Students High Arts 70.9%
- All Students Low Arts 45.1%
- Low SES High Arts 43.8%
- Low SES Low Arts 24.9%
-
- Scoring in top 2 quartiles in History, Citizenship,
Geography:
- All Students High Arts 70.9%
- All Students Low Arts 46.3%
- Low SES High Arts 41.0%
- Low SES Low Arts 28.6%
-
- GRADE 10 ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS
-
- Consider community service important or very important:
- All Students High Arts 46.6%
- All Students Low Arts 33.9%
- Low SES High Arts 49.2%
- Low SES Low Arts 40.7%
-
- Watching television 1 hour or less on weekdays:
- All Students High Arts 28.2%
- All Students Low Arts 15.1%
- Low SES High Arts 16.4%
- Low SES Low Arts 13.3%
-
- Watching television 3 hours or more on weekdays:
- All Students High Arts 20.6%
- All Students Low Arts 15.1%
- Low SES High Arts 33.6%
- Low SES Low Arts 42.0%
-
-
- Source: "Involvement in the Arts and Human Development:
- General Involvement and Intensive Involvement in Music
and
- Theater Arts." by James S. Catterall, Richard Chapleau, and
John
- Iwanga, from the UCLA Graduate School of Education &
- Information Studies.
-
- This study is found in the compilation "Champions of
Change"
- published by the President's Council on the Arts and
Humanities.
- You can find the link for this study at http://www.pcah.gov
-
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