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Allen, Jeff – ACT, Inc., 2022
ACT retesting occurs when students take the ACT® test multiple times with the goal of improving their scores and postsecondary credentials. In this paper, the author examines preliminary data for the 2022 ACT-tested graduating cohort to better understand the ACT score gains that occur with retesting. The author presents the following six things to…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing, Repetition, Scores
Christian Michael Smith; Noah Hirschl – Grantee Submission, 2022
In 2015, Wisconsin began mandating the ACT college entrance exam and the WorkKeys career readiness assessment. With population-level data and several quasi-experimental designs, we assess how this policy affected college attendance. We estimate a positive policy effect for middle/high-income students, no effect for low-income students, and greater…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Low Income Students, College Attendance, College Readiness
Phillippo, Kate; Griffin, Briellen; Del Dotto, B. Jacob; Lennix, Crystal; Tran, Ha – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2021
School choice policy is ubiquitous in urban school districts. Evidence suggests that it has not fully delivered on its proponents' promises of equitable educational opportunity. While scholars and policymakers scrutinize data to determine school choice's equity outcomes, little attention has been paid to how school choice policy directly…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Adolescents
National Student Clearinghouse, 2022
This tenth annual High School Benchmarks Report provides updated data on high school graduates' college access, persistence, and completion outcomes. This report was designed with several features particularly tailored to secondary education practitioners and policymakers. First, results presented in this report update last years' findings on high…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Access to Education, College Attendance, Academic Persistence
Walton, Kate E.; Allen, Jeff; Burrus, Jeremy; Murano, Dana – ACT, Inc., 2022
Social and emotional (SE) skills are known to be linked to many important life outcomes, some of which fall in the academic domain. For example, meta-analytic analyses show that conscientiousness (a trait related to self-management, perseverance, and being organized and planful) accounts for 28% of the explained variance in academic performance…
Descriptors: High School Students, Social Emotional Learning, Social Development, Emotional Development
Pagulayan, Editha S.; Asuncion, Jay Emmanuel L.; Tamayao, Antonio I.; Vecaldo, Rudolf T.; Mamba, Maria T.; Paat, Febe Marl G. – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
Guided by the lens of Bourdieu, this study examined the relationship of the students' economic capital (parents' monthly income and students' weekly allowance) and cultural capital (parents' highest educational attainment and students' community involvement) to their college readiness. The study utilized a descriptive-correlational design, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital, College Readiness, High School Graduates
Boateng, Simon; Asare, David; Manu, Patricia Tiwaa; Sefah, Elizabeth Adoma; Adomako, Joshua – Journal of Education, 2021
This study was primarily designed to find out the relationship between students' home background and their academic performance. The study was conducted largely in senior high schools in rural districts in Ashanti Region, Ghana. The study used the ex-post facto correlation design. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 275 senior high…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Characteristics, Adolescents, Correlation
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2021
Cities such as New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Silicon Valley and other metropolitan areas, also known as "Superstar Cities," are very effective at attracting highly educated workers. In a virtuous cycle, these workers migrate to where the interesting, highly paid jobs are, where other smart young people live, and where the cultural…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, School Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Public Schools
Krog, Hannah Anderson, Ed. – Bernan Press, 2023
This completely updated edition of "The Almanac of American Education" helps users understand and compare the quality of education at the national, state, and county levels. Compiled from official U.S. government sources, this book contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs that provide compelling…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Geographic Location, Educational History, Data Analysis
Choi, Jungtae; Kim, Kihyun – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Despite extensive research examining features of adolescents' ego-identity development, little research has demonstrated patterns of ego-identity development and its relationship with various individual and environmental factors that are theoretically important for identity development. Objective: The current study investigated…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Longitudinal Studies, Grade 9, Grade 11
Perkins, Wil – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2022
This study probed the predictive effects of accelerated college credits over and above the predictive effects of FAFSA EFC index number, sex, and first-generation status on baccalaureate outcomes on first-time college students. A hierarchical multiple regression on 2,817 students who graduated from a private university in central Arkansas was…
Descriptors: College Credits, Predictor Variables, High School Students, Academic Achievement
Conwell, Jordan A. – Sociology of Education, 2021
In recent decades, the black-white test score disparity has decreased, and the test score disparity between children of high- versus low-income parents has increased. This study focuses on a comparison that has, to date, fallen between the separate literatures on these diverging trends: black and white students whose parents have similarly low,…
Descriptors: Racial Factors, Family Income, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Gap
Çinar, Mustafa; Bahçeci, Ferhat; Dikmen, Semih – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
Technological developments in the 21st century have enabled the emergence of tools that enable mass communication. This communication environment has brought about a continuing passion for technology in individuals and, with this passion, a communication pollution and addiction have begun to emerge. In this study, Internet addiction of high school…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, High School Seniors, Internet, Gender Differences
Agirbas, Ozturk; Keyf, Erdil; Aggon, Eser; Ozan, Murat – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2019
The purpose of this study is to determine the nutritional habits and nutritional knowledge levels of athletes competing in the boxing junior men category (15-16 years old). The sample of the study consists of athletes within the age group of 15-16 competing in the Turkish High School Junior Men's Boxing Championship. The nutrition level scale was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletes, Males, Adolescents
Walton, Kate E.; Allen, Jeff; Burrus, Jeremy; Murano, Dana – ACT, Inc., 2022
Social and emotional (SE) skills are known to be linked with many important life outcomes, including academic performance, performance on standardized college entrance exams, and college enrollment, although research on enrollment is limited. In this report, the authors present data points from a study that evaluated test-criterion validity…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, College Attendance, Postsecondary Education