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Hodgen, Jeremy; Taylor, Becky; Francis, Becky; Craig, Nicole; Bretscher, Nicola; Tereshchenko, Antonina; Connolly, Paul; Mazenod, Anna – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Despite extensive research on attainment grouping, the impact of attainment grouping on pupil attainment remains poorly understood and contested. This paper presents evidence from a study conducted with 2944 12-13 year olds, from 76 schools in England, who were allocated to between-class attainment groups ('setting') in English and mathematics…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Grade 7
Justyna M. Flynn – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic caused in-person school closures around the world that impacted student learning and academic achievement to an unknown degree for all types of students. A majority of research on out-of-school time (summer vacation, absences, weather-related events) and initial research related to the pandemic indicated a negative impact on…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Academic Achievement
Eduard T. Caayaman; Mildred Jane Y. Carmelotes; Melanie G. Nemenio; Marichu D. Tulang – Online Submission, 2023
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, the traditional approach to the teaching-learning process took a great blow after the implementation of the Community Quarantine, and the sudden shift of the teaching modality. With this sudden shift, students experienced a learning lag making the gap between Students' Level and Grade Level Standards widen. This study…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Middle School Students, Reading Readiness
Ruying Li; Gaofeng Li – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2023
Exploring students' systems thinking (ST) is essential in enhancing science learning, but existing studies have failed to understand students' ST fully as it relates to ecological issues. This study aimed to fill the aforementioned literature gap by exploring lower-secondary school students' ST regarding ecological issues. The Systems Thinking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
Milan Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative ex post facto study was to determine if, and to what extent, differences existed in pre-and-post math scores following the VMath intervention for Title I 6th, 7th, and 8th graders in the Southwestern United States. Three research questions guided this study: (1) is there a statistically significant difference in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Mathematics, Scores, Intervention
Tim Delphine; Glenn Auld; Julianne Lynch; Joanne O'Mara – English in Education, 2024
This article examines and critiques gap-based education policies that are based on statistical and reductive conceptualisations of success for First Nations students in Australia. The policy desire to achieve social justice underpinned by parity of outcomes across a range of life indicators (including standardised English literacy) between First…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Educational Policy, Achievement Gap
Engagement and Science Achievement in the Context of Integrated STEM Education: A Longitudinal Study
Guzey, S. Selcen; Li, Weiling – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2023
A growing number of studies have shown the benefits of K-12 integrated science and engineering education. With this study, we add to the literature by documenting the relationship between STEM learning and engagement, and the demographic characteristics that impact achievement in STEM. This longitudinal study followed a diverse group of 245 middle…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Karen Ramlackhan; Yan Wang – Urban Education, 2024
We used the Stanford education data archive (SEDA) data to examine the heterogeneity among urban school districts in the United States. The SEDA 2.1 includes data sets on students' mathematics (Math) and English language arts (ELA) achievement from 2008 to 2014 at the district level. Growth mixture modeling was used to uncover the underlying…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Education, English Curriculum
Max Nachbauer – Online Submission, 2024
The current study evaluates effects of teaching factors and extended day programs regarding both average achievement and socioeconomic achievement gaps. Analyses are based on data from the National Educational Panel Study in Germany. The sample comprises 1523 students in 120 classes in 71 secondary schools. The investigation period covers fifth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 5
Christopher Cleveland; Ethan Scherer – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
A growing body of research shows that students benefit when they demographically match their teachers. However, little is known about how matching affects social-emotional development. We use student-fixed effects to exploit changes over time in the proportion of teachers within a school grade who demographically match a student to estimate…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Social Emotional Learning, Persistence
Christopher Dignam; James A. Gates; Matthew A. Cooney – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2024
Public school board members are charged with the responsibility and accountability to provide governance-level advocacy for equity and excellence in public education. This qualitative study examined the perceptions of school board members in three K--8 school districts in the midwestern part of the United States regarding the 50+ year Race-Based…
Descriptors: Governance, School Districts, Educational Administration, Leadership
Peter Anderson; Owen Forbes; Kerrie Mengersen; Zane M. Diamond – Australian Journal of Education, 2024
Data reporting in the Australian education system produces deficit-based comparisons of academic achievement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. Since 2009, data from the National Assessment Program -- Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) have been used by the Australian government to allow it to report on 'Closing the Gap' policy. These…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Indigenous Populations, Decision Making
Coleman, Amanda Elise – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined the impact of knowledge-building curricula on raising reading achievement for students from high-poverty backgrounds. The overall purpose of the study was to contribute to our understanding of curricula that may be effective in closing achievement gaps for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds compared to…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Poverty, Achievement Gap
Melitina Hernandez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research, conducted universally over two decades, suggests there is a significant disproportionality of achievement of housing displaced and highly mobile students (HDHM) compared to students who are in stable housing. HDHM students not only present with learning gaps but exhibit greater challenges in math. The purpose of this critical case study…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
Meredith G. O'Leary – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study focused on a problem of practice at Mystic River School (MRS), a kindergarten through eighth grade school in an urban district in New England. Schoolwide diagnostic data showed a significant gap between multilingual learners (MLs) and their native English speaking peers in literacy. An analysis of this data, interviews with staff and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Literacy