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Download full textRegional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
To assess education progress in the early grades and identify achievement gaps, this study examined reading achievement data for kindergarten and grade 1 students in two districts in Illinois: District U-46 (Elgin Area Schools) and District 186 (Springfield Public Schools). Drawing on a different reading assessment in each district, the study team…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Kindergarten
Peters, Scott J.; Rambo-Hernandez, Karen; Makel, Matthew C.; Matthews, Michael S.; Plucker, Jonathan A. – AERA Open, 2019
Educators have sought to understand and address the disproportional representation of students from certain student subgroups in gifted education. Most gifted identification decisions are made with national comparisons where students must score above a certain percentage of test takers. However, this approach is not always consistent with the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Diversity, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
Lewis Presser, Ashley; Lavigne, Heather; Bowdon, Jill; Lemieux, Camille; Zhang, Xinxin; Xia, Jingyan – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
To assess education progress in the early grades and identify achievement gaps, this study examined reading achievement data for kindergarten and grade 1 students in two districts in Illinois: District U-46 (Elgin Area Schools) and District 186 (Springfield Public Schools). Drawing on a different reading assessment in each district, the study team…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Reading Achievement, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Lewis Presser, A.; Lavigne, H.; Bowdon, J.; Lemieux, C.; Zhang, X.; Xia, J. – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
To assess education progress in the early grades and identify achievement gaps, this study examined reading achievement data for kindergarten and grade 1 students in two districts in Illinois: District U-46 (Elgin Area Schools) and District 186 (Springfield Public Schools). Drawing on a different reading assessment in each district, the study team…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Kindergarten
Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2019
At least half of states administer or are developing kindergarten entry assessments. In fall 2017 the Illinois State Board of Education began requiring teachers to report data on every child's skills at kindergarten entry using the Kindergarten Individual Development Survey, which was adapted from a California kindergarten assessment. This study…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Bowdon, Jill; Dahlke, Katie; Yang, Rui; Pan, Jingtong; Marcus, Jill; Lemieux, Camille – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2019
At least half of states administer or are developing kindergarten entry assessments. In fall 2017 the Illinois State Board of Education began requiring teachers to report data on every child's skills at kindergarten entry using the Kindergarten Individual Development Survey. State and local stakeholders have asked for more information on the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Public Schools, Test Validity
Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2019
At least half of states administer or are developing kindergarten entry assessments. In fall 2017 the Illinois State Board of Education began requiring teachers to report data on every child's skills at kindergarten entry using the Kindergarten Individual Development Survey. State and local stakeholders have asked for more information on the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Public Schools, Test Validity
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
This report examines what is known about enrollment, discipline, and support staff in alternative schools, among other objectives. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) analyzed data on alternative schools for school years 2013-14 and 2015-16 from Education's Civil Rights Data Collection (most recent years available); visited selected school…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Disproportionate Representation
Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2019
These are the appendixes for the report "Children's Knowledge and Skills at Kindergarten Entry in Illinois: Results from the First Statewide Administration of the Kindergarten Individual Development Survey." At least half of states administer or are developing kindergarten entry assessments. In fall 2017 the Illinois State Board of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Public Schools, Test Validity
Ehrlich, Stacy B.; Gwynne, Julia A.; Stitziel Pareja, Amber; Allensworth, Elaine M.; Moore, Paul; Jagesic, Sanja; Sorice, Elizabeth – University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2014
Significant attention is currently focused on ensuring that children are enrolled in preschool. However, regular attendance is also critically important. Children with better preschool attendance have higher kindergarten readiness scores, this is especially true for students entering with low skills. Unfortunately, many preschool-aged children are…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Preschool Education, Attendance Patterns
Direct linkRoan, Clayton – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study compared mathematics achievement in Illinois elementary schools using the "Everyday Math" and "Saxon Math" curricula. The Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) was used as the measure of student achievement. Multiple correlation analyses showed that the type of curriculum used was a significant predictor of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Mathematics, Comparative Analysis, State Standards
