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Michael Fienberg – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Secondary course assignment substantially determines a teacher's day-to-day work life, incentivizing them to realize their personal desires, which prior work shows tend to be working with more advanced students. Teachers have varying abilities to enact these desires, potentially due to their political capital, which is largely influenced by…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Assignments, Faculty Mobility, Leadership
Michael Portas – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative study is primarily intended to examine whether district level performance results from Grade 8 ELA state assessments can help to predict future passing rates on AP exams. The participants for the study are all 218 K-12 school districts in New Jersey, all of which generated results across score levels and passing rates for PARCC…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Tests
John Stewart Clark – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
The impact of the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum on Chinese teachers' self-efficacy has been unknown. The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to determine the impacts of the International Baccalaureate curriculum on Chinese teachers' reports of self-efficacy. Two groups were studied, the first comprised Chinese public…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Self Efficacy, Public School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Jonathon Glen Guthrie – ProQuest LLC, 2020
As college-bound high school seniors know, the ACT examination is possibly the single most important assessment students take during their academic careers. ACT scores can determine college entrance, scholarship dollars, and whether students will be placed in remedial courses. Parents pay large sums of money to prepare their children for this…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High School Students, Test Preparation, Scores
John Stewart Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem was the impacts of the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum on Chinese teachers' self-efficacy and student-centered learning practices were unknown. The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to determine the impacts of the International Baccalaureate curriculum on Chinese teachers' reports of self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy
Brian Garcia; Chester Holland; Akisha Osei Sarfo; Ray Hart – Council of the Great City Schools, 2023
Over the years, the nation's large urban school districts have consistently learned from the progress of their peer districts across the country. Great City School districts that have embraced the challenge of educating America's urban children have recognized the value of benchmarking their performance and growth against the progress of others.…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Academic Achievement, Enrollment, Kindergarten
Marissa Mauro – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In a hypercompetitive academic culture propelled by acceptance into the nation's prestigious colleges and universities, there has been a growing number of secondary students who are fixated on pursuing advanced coursework. This phenomenon of students beginning a sequence of advanced mathematics courses at the middle school level so they can take…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Acceleration (Education), Mathematics Instruction, Asian American Students
Education Week, 2020
As the 2020-21 school year opens amid the COVID-19 pandemic's disruption, this third and final installment of Quality Counts 2020 delivers a data-driven portrait of the nation's school system along with A-F grades and rankings for each state on a wide range of academic, school finance, and socioeconomic indicators. This report also includes an…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Education Week, 2019
Stagnation or promise? The third and final installment of "Quality Counts 2019" offers evidence for both in an annual summing up of the nation's K-12 system. The Education Week Research Center analyzed dozens of factors ranging from the academic to the socioeconomic in coming up with its all-inclusive state rankings and A-F grades. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education, Educational Quality, Educational Finance
Rotermund, Susan; Burke, Amy – National Science Foundation, 2021
Elementary and secondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is the foundation for students' entry into postsecondary STEM majors as well as a wide variety of STEM occupations. Proficiency in STEM fields is vital to economic growth and international competitiveness and important for all citizens in an increasingly…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Secondary Education, STEM Education, Educational Indicators
Palacios, Moses; Vignola, Eric; Lyons, Renata; Hart, Ray; Casserly, Michael – Council of the Great City Schools, 2020
This study sought to answer the following questions: (1) Is it feasible to develop Academic Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and collect data on them across member urban school districts? (2) Are comparisons between districts on academic performance measures valid and reliable? (3) Do districts collect and maintain requested KPI data in a way…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement
O'Brennan, Lindsey; Suldo, Shannon; Shaunessy-Dedrick, Elizabeth; Dedrick, Robert; Parker, Janise; Lee, Jon; Ferron, John; Hanks, Camille – Grantee Submission, 2020
High school students in accelerated classes face heightened school-related stressors but have access to few specialized supports. This article describes the development and initial application of the Motivation, Assessment, and Planning (MAP) intervention, developed to meet the needs of freshmen in Advanced Placement (AP) and International…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, Acceleration (Education), Intervention
Tennessee Department of Education, 2015
The Tennessee Department of Education explored course enrollment patterns in an effort to better understand in which courses students are enrolling and whether course enrollment policies and procedures are promoting students' interests. This report focuses on eighth grade Algebra I enrollment, which can propel students to take more rigorous math…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Secondary School Mathematics, Algebra
Shields, Katherine A.; Bailey, Jessica; Hanita, Makoto; Zhang, Xinxin – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2021
This study examined participation in accelerated college credit programs dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, and Advanced Placement courses in Rhode Island high schools to understand their effects on educational attainment in the 2013/14 grade 9 cohort. The state, which has funded and promoted these opportunities for students to earn college…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Dual Enrollment, Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students
Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2021
This Study Snapshot highlights key findings where the Rhode Island Department of Education, the Rhode Island Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner, and state legislators sought evidence of the effects of state-funded programs for students to earn college credit during high school. Using data on the 2013/14 statewide grade 9 cohort, this…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Dual Enrollment, Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students