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Direct linkAhlburg, Dennis A.; McCall, Brian P. – History of Education, 2021
This paper uses a newly discovered data set on examination results by gender from 1913 to 1986 to show that the gender gap in examinations at the University of Oxford has existed for over a century. We show that after declining for almost 70 years the gender gap in Firsts increased significantly after the introduction of coresidence -- the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Gender Differences, Scores, Foreign Countries
Matthew Schultz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the impact of limited technology access, the quality of remote learning experiences, and racial disparities on SAT math scores among 11th-grade students. The study spans two academic years, 2018/2019 and 2022/2023, offering a longitudinal perspective on the trends in math scores. The research employs a quantitative…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Achievement Gap, High School Students
Download full textA. Brooks Bowden; Viviana Rodriguez; Zach Weingarten – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
In response to widening achievement gaps and increased demand for post-secondary education, local and federal governments across the US have enacted policies that have boosted high school graduation rates without an equivalent rise in student achievement, suggesting a decline in academic standards. To the extent that academic standards can shape…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Grading
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
Harris, Rebecca B.; Grunspan, Daniel Z.; Pelch, Michael A.; Fernandes, Giselle; Ramirez, Gerardo; Freeman, Scott – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
Gender gaps in exam scores or final grades are common in introductory college science and engineering classrooms, with women underperforming relative to men with the same admission test scores or college grade point averages. After failing to close a historically documented gender gap in a large introductory biology course using interventions…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Intervention, Gender Differences, Undergraduate Students
Klosterman, Peter; Stein, Stephen – Learning Environments Research, 2023
In light of rising college student debt, many states now offer multiple options for students to earn college credit while still in high school. Concurrent enrollment programs, which allow qualified high school teachers to teach college credit-bearing classes in the high school, are one such option. Because concurrent enrollment classes teach…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Secondary School Mathematics, Educational Environment, College Credits
Morenz, Tim – ProQuest LLC, 2023
First-generation college students experience more negative emotional states and higher stress levels than their continuing generation peers, take approximately two years longer to complete undergraduate degree programs, and are less than one percent likely to re-enroll in college. Mindfulness skills have been reported to alleviate anxiety and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, First Generation College Students, Stress Variables, Academic Achievement
Angela Christy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in this quantitative ex-post facto study was that African American, Latino, and Native American students have lower reading fluency than Caucasian counterparts. The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent incorporating more literature written by African American, Latino, and Native American authors had on the…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Adolescent Literature, College Entrance Examinations, Reading Tests
Chauncey Malachi – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In the American Education system, high school plays an important role. High school education in the country is impacted by several factors such as peer pressure, parental influence and personal characteristics. There are discrepancies in achievements between Black and White students across the United States. Therefore, this paper will aim at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Males, High School Students
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
Bryn Harris; Miriam E. Thompson; Lindsay Fallon; Amanda L. Sullivan – National Association of School Psychologists, 2023
This commentary provides an external perspective on NASP's first public report on racial and ethnic differences in Praxis outcomes. These data demonstrate racial disparities in pass rates but do not provide information regarding the causes of these disparities. This report underscores the need for expanded public reporting of Praxis data in order…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Gender Differences, Scores, Equal Education
Anne Vicary; Jeanine Treffers-Daller – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Many overseas students in Higher Education in the UK struggle to understand the compulsory texts for their course, and obtain lower scores for their modules than their monolingual peers. While the existence of this achievement gap is well established in the literature, little is known about the ways in which overseas students in HE with limited…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Coping, Reading Strategies, Artificial Intelligence
Gomez Soler, Silvia C.; Abadía Alvarado, Luz Karime; Bernal Nisperuza, Gloria Lucia – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
This article uses an added value measure to assess the gender-specific impact of attending a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) program. Using the results of the mandatory Colombian national exit exams, we compare the math and reading scores at the end of high school and at the end of college by gender. A difference-in-differences…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Performance Factors, Exit Examinations
Johnson, Angela – AERA Open, 2019
Descriptive evidence shows that English learners (ELs) have lower high school graduation and 4-year-college attendance rates than monolingual and fluent English users. Applying the regression discontinuity design to rich administrative data from a large district in California, this study identifies the first causal effects of initial EL…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, English Language Learners, Classification, High School Graduates
Aaliyah K. McClinton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Decades after the 1954 "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" unanimous decision to desegregate schools, the ideology of Black people having equal educational opportunities has not been realized; Black people continue to lag in educational attainment. However, the inequalities in life experiences between Black and White people limit the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Scores, Algebra, College Entrance Examinations
