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David C. Coker – Education Leadership Review, 2022
Most public K-12 schools in the United States enact a school improvement plan each year based upon the state testing results from the previous year. Despite the many frameworks, research, and recommendations, few scholars tackled what the plans contain and the results. Using a sequential explanatory mixed methods model, two stages examined school…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Strategic Planning, Educational Planning, Educational Strategies
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Robinson-Cimpian, Joseph P. – National Education Policy Center, 2015
A recent NBER [National Bureau of Economic Research] working paper examines Florida's policy to retain many low-scoring third graders. The report concludes that third-grade retention has immediate positive effects on the following year's test results, but these effects fade over the next six years, with no effect on graduation. The regression…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, State Standards, Regression (Statistics)
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2011
This Research Brief summarizes the performance of M-DCPS students participating in the International Baccalaureate (IB) and Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) programs. Outcome data are provided for the eight M-DCPS schools offering the two programs and corresponding examinations. Participation in international…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Graduation Rate
Florida Department of Education, 2010
The State of Florida launched the College and Career Readiness Initiative to improve student readiness for postsecondary education and promote success after high school graduation. During the 2008 legislative session, s. 1008.30 (3), F.S., (also known as Senate Bill (SB) "1908") was revised to provide an opportunity for postsecondary…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Student Placement, Testing
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Mujtaba, Bahaudin – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2005
This study documents learning and student performance through objective tests with graduate students in Kingston-Jamaica and compares the final exam results with students taking the same course, the same test, with the same instructor at different sites throughout the United States and in the Nassau cluster, Grand Bahamas. The scores are further…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Academic Achievement, Objective Tests, Foreign Countries