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Direct linkKaylee T. Matheny; Marissa E. Thompson; Carrie Townley-Flores; Sean F. Reardon – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
We use data from the Stanford Education Data Archive to describe district-level trends in average academic achievement between 2009 and 2019. Although on average school districts' test scores improved very modestly (by about 0.001 standard deviations per year), there is significant variation among districts. Moreover, we find that average test…
Descriptors: School Districts, Academic Achievement, Educational Trends, Poverty
Stephanie G. Hofacket – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Schools across the United States are seeing an increase in culturally and linguistically diverse students. While there is recognition of the need for culturally and linguistically responsive teaching practices in K-12 settings, many teachers encounter challenges in effectively implementing these practices, particularly in science classrooms. There…
Descriptors: Science Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Ilene R. Berson; Michael J. Berson – New Educator, 2024
This study addresses the need for improved pedagogical strategies in early childhood and elementary social studies education, focusing on reducing instructional disparities and opportunity gaps for lower socio-economic status (SES) students. Utilizing the wonder framework by Conijn et al. (2022), we propose a design-based approach to enhance…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Educational Strategies, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Jose Villalobos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research uses a descriptive quantitative statistical design to examine campus-level results from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR). The focus is on describing the achievement disparities between campuses that implemented Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE) programs and those implementing Dual Language (DL)…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Vahide Yigit-Gencten; Mehmet Gultekin; Rabia Ozen Uyar; Filiz Aydemir – European Journal of Education, 2024
The underrepresentation of women and the perpetuation of gender stereotypes in children's literature has long been a concern. This study examined the portrayal of women in children's picture books and the potential of interactive read-alouds to promote gender equity in early childhood education, with the aim of shedding light on gender inequality.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Reading Aloud to Others, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs
Irene Piryatinskya; Jayna Ewaldb – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic forced a rapid shift to online learning, revealing significant challenges for elementary students' foundational academic and emotional development. This study explores the impact of remote learning on students with pre-existing--yet unidentified--attention and mood-related challenges, and aims to shed light on the academic…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
Tari Elizabeth Hunter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite the steady growth in transfer enrollment in the California State University (CSU) system, Black transfer students face significant equity gaps in access and completion. This study aims to enhance the limited research on the transfer experiences of Black students at four-year institutions, particularly within the CSU system, where over 40%…
Descriptors: Blacks, African American Students, Self Concept, Community College Students
Rebecca Bier – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Socioeconomic gaps in children's academic and social skills are large upon Kindergarten entry (von Hippel, Workman, and Downey 2018; Reardon 2011; Reardon and Portilla 2016). Preschool programs may yield particularly large benefits to low-income students and racially minoritized groups and may be promising for reducing inequalities…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Socioeconomic Status, Kindergarten, Low Income Students
Charles Temple – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2024
The article explores the importance of early reading proficiency and its long-term impact on academic and life outcomes, particularly in Romania. Analyzing PISA data, the article highlights significant literacy gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students, as well as urban and rural learners. These disparities perpetuate intergenerational…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Foreign Countries, Data, Literacy
Lance, Teresa – Journal of Educational Supervision, 2021
Educational professional development is ubiquitous; yet the gains on student learning are minimal as measured by local, state, and federal assessment measures. Although there is widespread agreement that assessment data alone does not tell the story of what students are learning and teachers are teaching, the data is still alarming. Why is there a…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Benefits, Instructional Effectiveness, Achievement Gap
Odom, Sara; Boso, Halle; Bowling, Scott; Brownell, Sara; Cotner, Sehoya; Creech, Catherine; Drake, Abby Grace; Eddy, Sarah; Fagbodun, Sheritta; Hebert, Sadie; James, Avis C.; Just, Jan; St. Juliana, Justin R.; Shuster, Michele; Thompson, Seth K.; Whittington, Richard; Wills, Bill D.; Wilson, Alan E.; Zamudio, Kelly R.; Zhong, Min; Ballen, Cissy J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
To investigate patterns of gender-based performance gaps, we conducted a meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished data collected across 169 undergraduate biology and chemistry courses. While we did not detect an overall gender gap in performance, heterogeneity analyses suggested further analysis was warranted, so we investigated whether…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Achievement Gap, Science Achievement, College Science
Condron, Dennis J.; Downey, Douglas B.; Kuhfeld, Megan – Sociology of Education, 2021
How does schooling affect inequality in students' academic skills? Studies comparing children's trajectories during summers and school years provide a provocative way of addressing this question, but the most persuasive seasonal studies (1) focus primarily on skill gaps between social categories (e.g., social class, race/ethnicity), which…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Rohm, Theresa; Carstensen, Claus H.; Fischer, Luise; Gnambs, Timo – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2021
Background: After elementary school, students in Germany are separated into different school tracks (i.e., school types) with the aim of creating homogeneous student groups in secondary school. Consequently, the development of students' reading achievement diverges across school types. Findings on this achievement gap have been criticized as…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Test Bias, Error of Measurement
Ali, Syed Murtaza Fazl – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2021
Elementary education is the most important stage in the learning process. Elementary education constitutes the base for supporting the whole edifice of education. It is absolutely essential that a strong foundation for education is given at this stage. Due to a number of problems and disturbed conditions prevailing in the Jammu and Kashmir State,…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
Liu, W. C.; Wang, John C. K.; Kang, H. J.; Kee, Ying Hwa – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
This study aims to examine the motivational profiles of Malay students in Singapore-based self-regulated learning framework (Pintrich & De Groot, 1990) and self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985). The sample consisted of 740 secondary school students from 24 tuition centres for Malay students only. The students were from three…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Questionnaires, Student Motivation, Student Characteristics
