Contents
Why this study? 1
Research questions 2
Findings 4
Implications 11
Limitations 11
References 11
Appendix A. Methods 13
Table 1. Number of Mississippi statewide courses and combinations of courses, by grade, 2011/12-2016/17 4
Table 2. The 10 most common math sequences in grades 6-8 in Mississippi, 2011/12-2013/14 5
Table 3. The 10 most common math sequences in grades 9-11 in Mississippi, 2014/15-2016/17 5
Table 4. The 10 most common math sequences in grades 6-11 in Mississippi, 2011/12-2016/17 6
Table 5. The six math sequence clusters for the 3,404 math sequences in grades 6-11 in Mississippi, 2011/12-2016/17 7
Table 6. The most common math sequences in grades 6-11 in Mississippi, by sequence cluster 2011/12-2016/17 7
Table 7. Student math achievement by math sequence cluster for grades 6-11 in Mississippi, 2011/12-2016/17 9
Figure 1. Cluster D, the math sequence cluster for grades 6-11 in Mississippi with the highest student achievement, was followed by disproportionately more female students than male students and... 9
Figure 2. Classification and regression tree model decision rules for identifying Mississippi students as at risk of failing to meet the ACT college readiness benchmark in math, based on grade 5 math... 10
Boxes
Box 1. Key terms used in this report 3
Box 2. Data sources, sample, and methods 3
Table A1. Characteristics of grade 6-11 students in Mississippi excluded from the study, by reason for exclusion 14
Table A2. Standard measures of classification accuracy for the classification and regression tree and logistic regression analysis results 16