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Inglese, Anton J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explored the influence of school funding and climate on student achievement in Illinois public elementary schools, examining de-identified individual fourth-grade students and their achievement scores during the 2018-19 academic year. Data sources included the Illinois Achievement Readiness (IAR) assessments for reading and math,…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Environment, Correlation, Grade 4
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Barragan Torres, Mariana; Cashdollar, Sarah; Wang, Yi; Bates, Meg – Online Submission, 2022
In March of 2020, in response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of Illinois mandated the transition to remote instruction for all schools. Although schools had the option to resume in-person instruction during the 2020-21 school year (SY21), the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) acknowledged that in-person instruction may not…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Cashdollar, Sarah; Wang, Yi; Barragan Torres, Mariana; Bates, Meg – Online Submission, 2022
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 was marked by a transition to remote learning in Illinois schools and nationwide. The following school year, schools and families faced difficult decisions about how and when to return to in-person learning. School leaders, parents and caregivers, and students considered how to balance…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Mitchell, Alison; Baron, Lauren; Macaruso, Paul – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2018
Screening and monitoring student reading progress can be costly and time consuming. Assessment embedded within the context of online instructional programs can capture ongoing student performance data while limiting testing time outside of instruction. This paper presents two studies that examined the validity of using performance measures from a…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Performance Based Assessment, Educational Technology
Shapiro, Deborah J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study is to assess whether bullying behaviors were impacted by the character education curriculum "Character Counts!" in fourth and seventh grade students. More specifically, over time are the perceptions that the students had of bullying behaviors impacted and is there a difference between the perceptions that boys…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Correlation, Surveys, Student Attitudes
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Jenkins, Lyndsay N.; Demaray, Michelle Kilpatrick – Journal of School Violence, 2012
Peer victimization is an enduring problem in schools (Wang, Iannotti, & Nansel, 2009). The current study focused on relations among two ecological variables that may be related to involvement in peer victimization: self-concept and social support. The main goal of this study was to investigate relations among social support, self-concept, and…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Grade 3, Victims, Aggression
Roan, 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
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Garandeau, Claire F.; Ahn, Hai-Jeong; Rodkin, Philip C. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
This study tested the effects of 5 classroom contextual features on the social status (perceived popularity and social preference) that peers accord to aggressive students in late elementary school, including classroom peer status hierarchy (whether within-classroom differences in popularity are large or small), classroom academic level, and grade…
Descriptors: Social Status, Aggression, Grade 5, Grade 4