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Miller, Shazia Rafiullah; Luppescu, Stuart; Correa, Macarena – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2003
This school report follows Vivaldi students in two ways. First, it tracks for five year members of the eighth-grade class of 1997 who enrolled in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) high schools or Academic Preparatory Centers (APCs). Second, it follows members of the eighth grade classes of 1997 to 2001 for one year to show their achievement during…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 8, Public Schools, Outcomes of Education
Advance Illinois, 2010
This Report Card is the first full assessment of the educational performance as a state, from birth through higher education. It compares performance to other states, looks at recent trends, and shows whether Illinois is meeting their obligations to all students or just a limited few. The scope of the report runs from birth through higher…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
Zimmer, Ron; Gill, Brian; Booker, Kevin; Lavertu, Stephane; Sass, Tim R.; Witte, John – RAND Corporation, 2009
The first U.S. charter school opened in 1992, and the scale of the charter movement has since grown to 4,000 schools and more than a million students in 40 states plus the District of Columbia. With this growth has also come a contentious debate about the effects of the schools on their own students and on students in nearby traditional public…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Research Methodology, Probability, Student Characteristics
Pincham, Linda – National Middle School Association (NJ3), 2006
Project PASS (Personal, Academic, Social Successes) is a goal-setting model that capitalizes on students' self-esteem and behavior and creates individual accountability for learning. The program was developed for a group of 15 at-risk eighth grade students in a school in the heart of urban Chicago. As part of Project PASS, students, parents,…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Grade 8, Study Skills, Performance Based Assessment
Pittman, Kim; Beth-Halachmy, Shani – 1997
A study examined the role of prior knowledge in teacher-generated analogies and student-generated analogies that convey the concept of protein synthesis. Subjects were 269 eighth-grade students enrolled in a public school district in a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Subjects were divided into groups that received traditional instruction,…
Descriptors: Analogy, Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Grade 8
Haddad, Monica A.; Alsbury, Thomas – Planning and Changing, 2008
State policies to equalize educational spending, cap bond and levy rates, require common teacher salary schedules, and consolidate school districts are geared toward improving quality and attempting to resolve problems of inefficiency. However, despite the use of state policy to equalize educational quality, educational gaps persist. Yu and Lau…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Districts, Case Studies, State Policy
Price, Rolanda – 1994
This report describes a program for improving motivation in eighth grade, first-year Spanish classes in a growing middle and upper class, predominantly Caucasian suburban community of northern Illinois. Survey results confirmed that students' enthusiasm for foreign language study decreased dramatically once the novelty of learning Spanish had worn…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Grade 8, Introductory Courses
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL. Curriculum Center in English. – 1965
THE SEVENTH- AND EIGHTH-GRADE UNITS CONTAINED IN THIS GUIDE PROVIDE A SEQUENTIAL STUDY OF COMPOSITION WITH EMPHASIS UPON DICTION. THE SEVENTH-GRADE UNIT (10 LESSONS) DEALS WITH THE PROCESSES OF OBSERVATION, CLASSIFICATION, INDIVIDUALIZATION, REVISION, AND WITH AUTHOR INTENTION. THE EIGHT-LESSON UNIT FOR THE EIGHTH-GRADE IS CONCERNED WITH WRITING…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classification, Curriculum Guides, Diction
Lutkus, A. D.; Grigg, W.; Dion, G. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
This report presents trial school-district-level results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics 2003, 2005, and 2007 assessments at grades 4 and 8 for 10 urban public-school districts: Atlanta City School District; Austin Independent School District (ISD); Boston School District; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools; City…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Achievement, National Competency Tests, Measures (Individuals)
Satchwell, Richard E.; Loepp, Franzie L. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2002
In 1991, the President of Illinois State University encouraged three Distinguished Professors, Drs. Dossey, Fitch, and Loepp (mathematics, science, and technology, respectfully), to establish an organization on campus called the Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology (CeMaST). The originators of CeMaST immediately conceived a plan to…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Grade 8, Grade 7, Instructional Development
Watkins, Sandra; Sheng, Zhaohui – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
The study analyzes the achievement trends of all third grade students in the state of Illinois who scored in the Exceeds category in reading and mathematics on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) in the year 2000. ISAT performance of this cohort group of students was followed through the eighth grade. Descriptive analyses were utilized…
Descriptors: State Standards, National Standards, Academic Standards, Advanced Students
Lurkus, A. D.; Rampey, B. D.; Donahue, P. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This report presents results for three years of trial school-district-level reading assessments in NAEP at grades 4 and 8. Five urban public-school districts voluntarily participated in NAEP in 2002 and 2003: Atlanta City, City of Chicago School District 299, Houston ISD, Los Angeles Unified, and New York City Public Schools. In 2003 four…
Descriptors: Grade 8, English (Second Language), Limited English Speaking, Urban Schools
Molina, Victoria; And Others – 1997
An action research report described a program for enhancing students' ability to focus on instructional processes and oral directions. The targeted population was comprised of 4th-, 5th-, and 8th-grade students from 3 different metropolitan schools in southwest Cook County, Illinois. The problem of off-task behavior, including distractible…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Techniques, Grade 4, Grade 5
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Dept. of School Improvement Services. – 1986
This document, developed by the Illinois State Board of Education, identifies five goals for learning in the social sciences, and provides sample learning objectives for grades 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, which are consistent with these goals. The state goals for learning are broadly stated expressions of what the Illinois State Board of Education wants and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12

Chapman, Carmen Woods; And Others – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1984
The Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress (IIEP) writing assessment is designed to assess students' knowledge and skills on curricular benchmarks. The Rating Guide for Functional Writing is criterion-referenced. The IIEP is neither mandated by statute nor connected to graduation requirements. Randomly selected students are tested each year.…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests