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Download full textTaliha Keles – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2024
The aim of the study is to reveal the concurrent validity of the Central Examination of Secondary Education Institutions (OKMS). For this purpose, the relationship between the OKMS subtest raw scores of the students who took the exam and the 8th-grade year-end achievement scores of the courses within the scope of the exam was analyzed by canonical…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade 8, Secondary School Students, Test Validity
McCullough, Moira; Ochoa, Lindsay; Tuttle, Christina – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2021
A key goal of many magnet programs is to improve student diversity in schools. This snapshot describes efforts by those participating in the U.S. Department of Education's Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP). Findings are based on surveys completed by most of the more than 160 schools recently funded by MSAP grants and interviews with their…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, Student Recruitment, Admission (School), Student Diversity
Direct linkPrieto, Lydia M.; Aguero-Valverde, Jonathan; Flacke, Johannes; van Maarseveen, Martin – Journal of School Choice, 2023
Schools' priorities in student selection constitute the basis for fairness in school admissions. We study the case where schools are active strategic players that rank their applicants in terms of priorities. A methodological framework is developed to examine the impact of the variation in the admission settings on the equality of opportunity in…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Equal Education, Educational Quality
Huang, Fung-Mey; Chan, Hsun-Yu; Tao, Hung-Lin – School Psychology International, 2021
In the current study, we followed motivational theories and investigated whether granting junior high school students one more opportunity to take the high-stakes high school entrance exam alleviates students' depressive symptoms, and whether the effect is comparable for adolescent boys and girls residing in Taiwan. We analyzed two longitudinal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, High Schools, Admission Criteria
Genç, Ahmet; Sanli, Esat – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
This research is a causal study that examines the moderator role of parental exam anxiety in the relationship between eighth-grade students' exam anxiety and high school entrance exam success. Participants of the study consisted of a total of 353 eighth-grade students attending seven different middle schools in the North region of Türkiye.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, High Schools, High Stakes Tests, Admission Criteria
Biernacki, Paulina J.; Altavilla, Jennifer; Kanopka, Klint; Hsieh, Hsiaolin; Solano-Flores, Guillermo – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2023
We investigated how high school mathematics course placement contributes to inequalities in college preparation for students categorized as "English Learners" (ELs), especially "long-term" English Learners (LTELs). We devised a base-2 enumeration approach that allowed us to process complex transcript data from one school…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Learning Trajectories, Student Placement, High School Students
Shyjka, Andria – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2021
Students and families in Chicago are increasingly taking up school choice options offered by the school district. Prospective high school students and their families have 160 high schools to choose from. These options include a broad variety of schools in governance, size, academic approach, and programs offered. To streamline the school…
Descriptors: School Choice, High Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Public Schools
Bibler, Andrew J. – Education Economics, 2022
Language immersion education uses a non-English language for a significant portion of instruction. One goal is to develop bilingual students, which many argue provides cognitive benefits. Using data from school choice lotteries, I estimate the effect of random assignment to a language immersion school on achievement in math and reading. Winning…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Achievement
Komisarow, Sarah – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
StudentU is a comprehensive program that provides education, nutrition, and social support services to disadvantaged middle and high school students outside of the regular school day. In this paper I investigate the effects of this multiyear program on the early high school outcomes of participating students by exploiting data from oversubscribed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Nutrition Instruction, Social Support Groups, Disadvantaged
