High School Exclusionary Discipline Data in Pennsylvania (SY 2016/2017)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dataset includes publicly available data published primarily by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Pennsylvania Office of Safe Schools. The dataset was created by combining several publications by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, including the 2017 School Fast Fact database, 2016-2017 Academic Performance database, and the 2017 Keystone Score database. The dataset includes institutional (school-wide) variables for every public high school in Pennslyvania (n = 407 ). The data includes information surrounding each institution's socio-economic status, racial composition, academic performance, and type of and total use of exclusionary discipline (in-school suspension, out-of-school suspension, and expulsion) for the school year 2016-2017. The dataset also includes neighborhood information for each school location. This data was collected from AreaVibes, a website known for its ability to guide individuals in their search for ideal residential areas in the United States and Canada. AreaVibes deploys a unique algorithm that evaluates multiple different data points for each location, including amenities, cost of living, crime rates, employment, housing, schools, and user ratings. This dataset deployed AreaVibes to input the physical addresses of each high school in order to retrieve the livability score for the surrounding neighborhoods of these educational institutions. Furthermore, the website was instrumental in collecting neighborhood crime scores, offering valuable insights into the levels of criminal activity within specific geographic zones. The crime score takes into account both violent crime and property crime. However, higher weights are given to violent crimes (65%) than property crime (35%) as they are more severe. Data for calculation by Areavibes is derived from FBI Uniform Crime Report. School discipline is crucial for ensuring safety, well-being, and academic success. However, the continued use of exclusionary discipline practices, such as suspension and expulsion, has raised concerns due to their ineffectiveness and harmful effects on students. Despite compelling evidence against these practices, many educational institutions persist in relying on them. This persistence has led to a troubling reality—a racial and socioeconomic discipline gap in schools. This data is used to explore the evident racial and socioeconomic disparities within high school discipline frameworks, shedding light on the complex web of factors that contribute to these disparities and exploring potential solutions. Drawing from social disorganization theory, the data explores the interplay between neighborhood and school characteristics, emphasizing the importance of considering the social context of schools.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.022 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".