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Bakker, Arthur – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2004
This paper examines ways in which coherent reasoning about key concepts such as variability, sampling, data, and distribution can be developed as part of statistics education. Instructional activities that could support such reasoning were developed through design research conducted with students in grades 7 and 8. Results are reported from a…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grade 8, Cognitive Development, Sampling
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Adams, J. Q. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2005
The USA is undergoing tremendous cultural changes as we open the first decade of the 21st century. In this paper the author discusses the need to close the performance gap that exists between White, African American, and Latino/a students. To do so, educators must carefully consider several important cultural forces. The author examines the shift…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Postmodernism, Immigrants
Agodini, Roberto; Uhl, Stacey; Novak, Timothy – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2004
This study examines the factors that influence participation in vocational education among students who attended high school during the early 1990s--that is, when the focus of federal vocational education policy began to change. The factors examined included three types of characteristics of students, their parents, and their high schools: (1)…
Descriptors: High Schools, Vocational Education, Student Participation, Context Effect
Preston, James T.; Clark, W. B.; Glessner, H. H.; Hennessey, D. L. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
This bulletin demonstrates that Berkeley, California's educational problem is and has been that of meeting the varied needs of a population such as may be found in any typical American city. The varied population needs, together with the rapid growth, have brought many difficult problems to Berkeley, just has they have to other cities. Based on…
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, School Counseling, School Organization, Counseling Services
Williams, Andra; Blank, Rolf K.; Cavell, Lori; Toye, Carla – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2005
This document is the seventh in a series of reports designed to provide: (1) consistent, reliable indicators to allow analysis of trends for each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico over time; (2) high data quality for comparability from state to state; and (3) accessible indicator formats for use by a variety of audiences. The report…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, State Standards
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Ziegler, Albert; Finsterwald, Monika; Grassinger, Robert – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2005
In mathematics, physics, and chemistry, women are still considered to be at a disadvantage. In the present study, the development of the symptoms of learned helplessness was of particular interest. A study involving average and mildly gifted 8th-grade boys and girls (top 60%) investigated whether girls, regardless of ability level, experience…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Helplessness, Academically Gifted, Physics
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Huss, John A. – Current Issues in Education, 2004
A descriptive study examined the degree to which middle level teachers in grades 6-8 in three states accept the tenets of the middle school philosophy. The guiding questions were: (1) Does a cross difference in variables exist among teachers from different organizational settings or grade configurations in respect to the teacher's acceptance of…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Educational Philosophy, Statistical Analysis, Certification
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Epstein, Michael H.; Mooney, Paul; Ryser, Gail; Pierce, Corey D. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2004
Objective: This article reports findings of three studies addressing convergent validity and test-retest reliability of the Youth Rating Scale of the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale-Second Edition (BERS-2). Method: Pearson product-moment correlations were used in all three studies, the first two addressing convergent validity and the third…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Behavior Rating Scales, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
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Hamston, Julie; Love, Kristina – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2005
This article describes a theoretically informed methodology for eliciting the voices of adolescent boys identified by their teachers and parents as reluctant leisure time readers. Similar methods have also been used to draw out the voices of the boys' parents to understand their efforts to guide and maintain their sons' literacy practices, within…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Males, Teaching Methods, Grade 6
Delaware Department of Education, 2006
This report, submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, contains summary details of Delaware students' growth in the areas of reading, mathematics, writing, science and social studies. The results reported herein are part of a long-term effort to gather data on Delaware students' educational progress and use the data to inform decisions about…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 3, Educational Testing, Accountability
US Department of Education, 2006
This document provides a guide for the development of the 2006 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) U.S. History Assessment. NAEP measures the U.S. history knowledge and skills of students in grades 4, 8, and 12. According to the NAEP U.S. history framework, the assessment should be organized around three dimensions: historical themes,…
Descriptors: Social Change, War, History Instruction, Democracy
Froman, Terry; Rubiera, Vilma – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2006
Although students have been taking the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) Science test for a few years, the State has only recently set the achievement-level standards for the Science test. Science will be included in the school grade calculations for the first time in 2006-07. In addition, although no official guidelines exist…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Prediction, Science Tests, Mathematics Tests
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Horkay, Nancy; Bennett, Randy Elliott; Allen, Nancy; Kaplan, Bruce; Yan, Fred – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2006
This study investigated the comparability of scores for paper and computer versions of a writing test administered to eighth grade students. Two essay prompts were given on paper to a nationally representative sample as part of the 2002 main NAEP writing assessment. The same two essay prompts were subsequently administered on computer to a second…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Program Effectiveness
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Marchant, Gregory J.; Paulson, Sharon E.; Shunk, Adam – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2006
With the mandate of "No Child Left Behind," high-stakes achievement testing is firmly in place in every state. The few studies that have explored the effectiveness of high-stakes testing using NAEP scores have yielded mixed results. This study considered state demographic characteristics for each NAEP testing period in reading, writing,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests
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Kocakulah, Sabri; Ustunluoglu, Evrim; Kocakulah, Aysel – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2005
The effectiveness of teaching academic courses such as mathematics and science in a foreign language has been investigated by several international studies in the literature. Even though the studies conducted have brought up contradictory results, most of them reveal that learning academic courses through a foreign language medium may pose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Energy
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