Melissa Roderick, PhD

The University of Chicago
School of Social Service Administration

Publications

  • Farrington, Camille. Melissa Roderick, Elaine Allensworth and Jenny Nagaoka. 2012. Teaching adolescents to become learners: The role of non-cognitive factors in shaping school performance, a critical literature review. Chicago, IL. The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Coca, Vanessa, David Johnson, Thomas Kelly-Kemple and Melissa Roderick. 2011. Working to my potential: The postsecondary experiences of Chicago Public School students in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. Chicago, IL. The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Jenny Nagaoka, and Vanessa Coca. 2011. Potholes on the road to college: High school effects in shaping urban students’ participation in college application, search and enrollment. Sociology of Education. July. 84: 178-211.
  • Roderick, Melissa, and Ginger Stoker. 2010. Bringing rigor to the study of rigor: Evaluating the efficacy of Advanced Placement as a strategy for increasing college preparation in urban schools. In Schooling Effects on Children: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Judith L. Meece and Jacquelynne Eccles, eds.
  • Coca, Vanessa, Jenny Nagaoka, Thomas Kelley-Kemple, and Melissa Roderick. 2009. Senior year course-taking in Chicago: Gearing up for college or coasting to gradua­tion? Paper presented at the American Education Research Association annual con­ference, April, in San Diego, CA.
  • Moeller, Eliza, Karen Roddie, and Melissa Roderick. 2009. Student voices: A qualita­tive exploration of students’ senior year coursework. Paper presented at the Ameri­can Education Research Association annual conference, April, in San Diego, CA.
  • Nagaoka, Jenny, Melissa Roderick, and Vanessa Coca. 2009. Barriers to college attain­ment, lessons from Chicago. Center for American Progress, Washington, DC.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Vanessa Coca, and Jenny Nagaoka. 2009. Potholes on the road to college: High school effects in shaping urban students’ participation in college ap­plication, search and enrollment. Paper presented at the American Education Re­search Association annual conference, April 2009, in San Diego, CA.
  • Roderick, Melissa, John Q. Easton, and Penny Sebring. 2009. The Consortium on Chicago School Research: A new model for the role of research in supporting urban school reform. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Jenny Nagaoka, and Vanessa Coca. 2009. College readiness for all: The challenge for urban high schools. Future of Children. 19(1): 185-210.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Jenny Nagaoka, Vanessa Coca, and Eliza Moeller. 2009. Making hard work pay off: Challenges on the road to college for students in Chicago Public Schools’ academically advanced programs. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Vanessa Coca, Eliza Moeller, and Jenny Nagaoka. 2008. From high school to the future: Potholes on the road to college. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa, and Jenny Nagaoka. 2008. Developing a strategy to increase college enrollment and graduation among Chicago Public School graduates. In Succeeding in College: What It Means and How to Make It Happen, Michael McPherson and Morton Owen Shapiro, eds. New York, NY: College Board.
  • Nagaoka, Jenny, Andy Brake, Jonah Deutsch, and Melissa Roderick. 2007. Bringing AVID to Chicago’s public high schools: Ninth-grade outcomes in a large, urban school district. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association annual conference, April, in Chicago, IL.
  • Roderick, Melissa, and John Q. Easton. 2007. Developing new roles for research in new policy environments. The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research. Paper pre­sented at the inaugural conference of the Social Science Research Council, Research Partnership for New York City Schools, October, in New York City, NY.
  • Roderick, Melissa, and Ginger Stoker. 2007. Bringing rigor to the study of rigor: Evalu­ating the impact of expanding AP participation in Chicago on college enrollment. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association annual confer­ence, April, in Chicago, IL.
  • Roderick, Melissa. 2006. Aligning dropout prevention approaches with efforts to raise achievement and improve high school performance: Evidence from the Chicago Public Schools. Paper presented at the Aspen Institute Congressional Reform Pro­gram, the Challenge of High School Reform, February 21-26, in Montego Bay, Ja­maica.
  • Roderick, Melissa. 2006. Closing the Aspirations-Achievement Gap Implications for High School Reform: A Commentary from Chicago. New York: MDRC.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Jenny Nagaoka, and Elaine Allensworth. 2006. From high school to the future: An analysis of the college attendance patterns, college qualifications, and college graduation rates of Chicago Public School graduates. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa. 2005. Lessons for No Child Left Behind: What we have learned from ending social promotion in Chicago. Paper presented at Accountability, equity and democracy in the public schools: The No Child Left Behind Act and the federal role in education, Department of Educational Policy Studies, February 2-4, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
  • Roderick, Melissa, and Jenny Nagaoka. 2005. Retention under Chicago’s high stakes testing program: Helpful, harmful, or harmless? Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 27(1): 309-340.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Jenny Nagaoka, and Elaine Allensworth. 2005. Is the glass half full or mostly empty? Ending social promotion in Chicago. In Uses and misuses of data for educational accountability and improvement: The 104th Yearbook for the National So­ciety for the Study of Education (NSSE), ed. Edward H. Haertel and Joan L. Herman, 223- 259. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Smith, B.A., Sophie C. Degener, and Melissa Roderick. 2005. Extended learning time and accountability: Assessing outcomes and options for elementary and middle grades.Education Administration Quarterly 41: 195-236.
  • Stone, Susan, Mimi Engel, Jenny Nagaoka, and Melissa Roderick. 2005. Getting it the second time around: Student classroom experience in Chicago’s Summer Bridge Program.Teachers College Record 107(5): 935-957.
  • Courtney, Mark E., Melissa Roderick, Cheryl Smithgall, Robert Matthew Gladden, and Jenny Nagaoka. 2004. The educational status of foster children. Chicago: Chapin Hall Center for Children Issue Brief 102.
  • Jacob, Robin Tepper, Susan Stone, and Melissa Roderick. 2004. Ending social promotion in Chicago: The response of teachers, students, and parents. Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Nagaoka, Jenny, and Melissa Roderick. 2004. Ending social promotion in Chicago: The academic progress of retained students. Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Re­search.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Elaine Allensworth, and Jenny Nagaoka. 2004. How do we get large urban high schools to care about dropout rates and will No Child Left Behind help or hurt? Paper presented at Developmental, economic and policy perspectives on the federal No Child Left Behind act conference, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, Harris School of Public Policy, May 6, at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Brian A. Jacob, and Anthony S. Bryk. 2004. Summer in the city: Achievement gains in Chicago’s Summer Bridge Program. In Summer learning: Re­search, policies and programs, ed. Geoffrey D. Borman and Matthew Boulay, 73-102. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Roderick, Melissa. 2003.What’s happening to the boys? Early high school experiences and school outcomes among African American male adolescents in Chicago. Urban Education38(5): 538-607.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Mimi Engel, Jenny Nagaoka, and Brian A. Jacob. 2003. Ending social promotion in Chicago: Results from Summer Bridge. Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School. Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Brian A. Jacob, and Anthony S. Bryk. 2003. High stakes testing in Chicago: Effects on achievement in promotional gate grades. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 24: 333-358.
  • Roderick, Melissa. 2001. Educational trends and issues in the region, the state and the nation. In Education policy for the 21st century: Challenges and opportunities in stan­dards-based reform, ed. Lawrence B. Joseph. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press.
  • Roderick, Melissa, and Engel, Mimi. 2001. The grasshopper and the ant: Motivational responses of low achieving students to high stakes testing. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 3(23): 197-227.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Jenny Nagaoka, Miriam Engel, and Brian Jacob. 2001. Helping stu­dents meet the demands of high stakes testing: Is there a role for summer school? Paper presented at the American Educational Research Asociation’s annual confer­ence, April, in Seattle, WA.
  • Easton, John Q., Todd Rosenkranz, Anthony S. Bryk, Brian Jacob, Stuart Luppescu, and Melissa Roderick. 2000. Annual CPS test trend review. Research data brief, Aca­demic Productivity Series. Chicago, IL: Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa. 2000. Education and Hispanic Americans: The road ahead. In His­panics in the United States: An agenda for the twenty-first century, ed. Pastora Cafferty and David Engstrom. New Jersey, Transactions Press
  • Roderick, Melissa, Brian Jacob, and Anthony S. Bryk. 2000. Evaluating Chicago’s efforts to end social promotion: Developing research designs and methodologies that take into account multiple levels of decision making and school and teacher effects. In The empirical study of governance: Theory, models and methods, ed. Lawrence Lynn et al.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Jenny Nagaoka, Jennifer Bacon, and John Q. Easton. 2000. Update ending social promotion in Chicago: Passing, retention, and achievement trends among promoted and retained students. Chicago, IL: Consortium on Chicago School Re­search.
  • Roderick, Melissa, Anthony S. Bryk, Brian Jacob, John Q. Easton, and Elaine Allens­worth. 1999. Ending social promotion in Chicago: Results from the first two years. Chi­cago, IL: Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa and Eric Camburn. 1999. Risk and recovery from course failure in the early years of high school.American Educational Research Journal 36(2): 303-344.
  • Easton, John Q, Brian Jacob, Stuart Luppescu, and Melissa Roderick. 1998. Adjusting citywide ITBS scores for student retention in grades three, six, and eight: Research data brief. Chicago, IL: Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa, James Chiong, and Kneia DaCosta. 1998.The student life in high schools project: First follow up report, 11th grade outcomes. The Student Life in High Schools Project,The School of Social Service Administration: The University of Chi­cago.
  • Roderick, Melissa, and Susan Stone. 1998. Changing standards, changing relationships: Building family-school relationships to promote achievement in high schools. Chicago, IL: Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa. 1997 review of Creating the dropout: An institutional and social history of school failure, by Sherman Dorn. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 16(1): 188-192.
  • Roderick, Melissa and Michael Arney. July 1997. Habits hard to break: A new look at tru­ancy in Chicago high schools. Chicago, IL: Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa and Eric Camburn. 1996. Academic difficulty during the high school transition. In Charting reform in Chicago: The students speak, by Penny Bender Sebring, Anthony S. Bryk, Melissa Roderick, and Eric Camburn. Chicago, IL, Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa. 1995. Grade retention and school dropout: Investigating the as­sociation. American Educational Research Journal 31(4): 729-759.
  • Roderick, Melissa 1995. Grade retention and school dropout: The policy debate and research questions. In Phi Delta Kappa research bulletin, 15. Bloomington, Indiana: Phi Delta Kappa Center for Education, Development, and Research.
  • Roderick, Melissa. 1995. School Transitions and School Dropout. In Advances in educa­tional policy, ed. Kenneth Wong, 135-185. CT: JAI Press.
  • Roderick, Melissa and Douglas Novotny. 1994. “Nothing I expected it to be”: A summary report of focus groups and students essays on the transition to high school. Chicago, IL: The School of Social Service Administration, The University of Chicago.
  • Roderick, Melissa. 1993. The path to dropping out: Evidence for intervention. Westport, CT: Auburn House, Greenwood Publishing Group.
  • Roderick, Melissa. 1991. The path to dropping out among public school youth: Middle school and early high school experiences. Dissertation Series # D-91-2. Cambridge, MA. Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Govern­ment, Harvard University.
  • Folbre, Nancy R., Julia L. Leighton, and Melissa Roderick. 1986. Legislation in Maine. In Deindustrialization and plant closure, ed. Paul D. Staudohar and Holly E. Brown. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Co.

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m-roderick@uchicago.edu
969 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637