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Title: The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth: Findings from Four Longitudinal Studies
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1. Catterall, James S.
Dumais, Susan A.
Hampden-Thompson, Gillian
The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth: Findings from Four Longitudinal Studies
Research Report No. 55. Washington DC: The National Endowment for the Arts, March 2012.
Also: http://www.nea.gov/research/Arts-At-Risk-Youth.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: National Endowment for the Arts
Keyword(s): Academic Development; Achievement; Adolescent Behavior; Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-B, ECLS-K); Educational Outcomes; High School Curriculum; National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS)

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This report examines the academic and civic behavior outcomes of teenagers and young adults who have engaged deeply with the arts in or out of school.

In several small-group studies, children and teenagers who participated in arts education programs have shown more positive academic and social outcomes in comparison to students who did not participate in those programs. Such studies have proved essential to the current research literature on the types of instrumental benefits associated with an arts education.

A standard weakness of the literature, however, has been a dearth of large-scale, longitudinal studies following the same populations over time, tracking the outcomes of students who received intensive arts exposure or arts learning compared with students who did not. The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth is a partial attempt to fill this knowledge gap. The report’s authors, James Catterall et al., use four large national databases to analyze the relationship between arts involvement and academic and social achievements.

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Catterall, James S., Susan A. Dumais and Gillian Hampden-Thompson. "The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth: Findings from Four Longitudinal Studies." Research Report No. 55. Washington DC: The National Endowment for the Arts, March 2012.