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Hall, Caroline; Lundin, Martin; Sibbmark, Kristina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods perform much worse in school compared to children growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine a program ("Coaching for Teaching") targeted at ten lower secondary schools in Sweden's most disadvantaged city districts. The program's aim was to enhance student performance by…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries
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Wästerlid, Catarina – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
This systematic review analyses the research results of low-achieving grade K-3 children's numeracy competencies by investigating the research approaches used, the definitions of low achievers and the numeracy competencies reported. 18 articles, identified in ERIC, PsycINFO and Web of Science, were selected for further analysis. The results show…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Elementary School Students, Numeracy, Competence
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Cascella, Clelia; Giberti, Chiara – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
National and International standardized assessments have shown sharp differences between native and foreign students' performance in both text comprehension and mathematics. Based on the data gathered yearly by the INVALSI (Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of Educational Systems) at the national level, we performed a two-step…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Foreign Students, Reading Comprehension, Mathematics Skills
Porzillo, Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This convergent mixed methods study sought to explore the effects of engineering design challenges (EDCs) on middle school students' achievement. Data was collected from four middle schools from an urban school district in Maryland. Two of these, Group A, included teachers with experience with EDC design and implementation; the other two schools,…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Science Instruction, Design, Middle School Teachers
Kenn Apel; Victoria S. Henbest; Yaacov Petscher – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: We examined whether diverse profiles of strengths and weaknesses would emerge when assessing different aspects of morphological awareness in first- through sixth-grade students using a recently developed standardized test, the Morphological Awareness Test for Reading and Spelling (MATRS; Apel et al., 2021). Method: Four thousand…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Elementary School Students, Language Tests, Standardized Tests
Complete College America, 2022
Across the nation, K-12 systems increasingly use performance assessments to demonstrate and evaluate student learning. These assessments are also a promising source of information to support college access and success. But using K-12 performance assessments at the postsecondary level will require changes across the K-12 and postsecondary sectors,…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Student Placement, Performance Based Assessment, Student Evaluation
Dawn R. Coleman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Community colleges are under ongoing pressure to increase the success of students placed into developmental courses; while many reforms focus on the length of course sequences, there is also attention on how students are assessed and placed. Studies of these assessment and placement (A&P) methods focus primarily on predictive validity; one…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Evaluation, Student Placement, Placement Tests
Alicia Danielle Joseph Rollins – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The American College Test (ACT) serves as the most utilized college admissions test in the United States. With disparities existing in the scores of Black males on the ACT exam compared to their peers, it is imperative to explore how these students are perceiving and experiencing the ACT. This study explored how Black male students experience the…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Standardized Tests, College Entrance Examinations
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Julian R. Betts; Andrew C. Zau; Karen Volz Bachofer; Dina Polichar – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
The paper evaluates math performance at four high-need middle schools during a four-year intervention, which was designed to help math teachers diagnose students' areas of need and to design lesson plans responsive to those needs. Before the intervention began, the researchers pre-selected four comparison schools by matching based on achievement…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Middle School Students, Intervention, Mathematics Instruction
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Michelle R. Murphy; Christine A. Christle – Preventing School Failure, 2024
Co-teaching is a popular service delivery option for students with learning disabilities (LD), yet its overall efficacy is questionable. Variance in teachers, students, quality of instruction, and types of co-teaching make it challenging to meet criteria for quality group experimental study. Schools must determine the effectiveness of their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities
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Shahid A. Choudhry; Timothy J. Muckle; Christopher J. Gill; Rajat Chadha; Magnus Urosev; Matt Ferris; John C. Preston – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2024
The National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists (NBCRNA) conducted a one-year research study comparing performance on the traditional continued professional certification assessment, administered at a test center or online with remote proctoring, to a longitudinal assessment that required answering quarterly…
Descriptors: Nurses, Certification, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Computer Assisted Testing
Caroline Adams – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the impact of attending a STEM-designated elementary school on students' math, ELA (English Language Arts), and science achievement and growth scores. As technology continues to advance in education, educators are exploring innovative instructional methods. With a concerning decline in math proficiency nationwide,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Magnet Schools, Grade 5, Mathematics Achievement
Laurie Liddick – ProQuest LLC, 2024
During the past few decades, Charter schools have been utilized as laboratories for educational innovation. Each year, more and more Charter schools open across the United States. These schools are governed the same way traditional public schools are, but there is research that suggests that inequalities exist in the representation and performance…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Metropolitan Areas, School Effectiveness, Access to Education
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Aaron Soo Ping Chow; Amanda Nabors – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Early-grade reading proficiency is well documented as in important factor for later academic success. Researchers and educators consider the achievement of reading proficiency by the end of grade three to be crucial to future academic success and financial independence (Hein et al., 2013; La Paro & Pianta, 2000; Singh, 2013). As…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Grade 3, Emergent Literacy
Sarah Cohodes; Astrid Pineda – Blueprint Labs, 2024
The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010's, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used "No Excuses" practices, whereas nonurban charters had greater model variety. Using randomized admissions lotteries, we estimate the impact of charter schools by locality on college…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Charter Schools, College Readiness
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