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Direct linkFleshman, Robin Earle – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This case study seeks to explore three research questions: (1) What science teaching and learning processes, perspectives, and cultures exist within the science classroom of an urban portfolio community high school? (2) In what ways does the portfolio-based approach prepare high school students of color for college level science coursework,…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Science Tests, Science Instruction, College Readiness
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Download full textZeiser, Kristina; Rickles, Jordan; Garet, Michael S. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
To help researchers understand potential issues one can encounter when conducting propensity matching studies in complex settings, this paper describes methodological complications faced when studying schools using deeper learning practices to improve college and career readiness. The study uses data from high schools located in six districts…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Teaching Methods
Saltrick, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Schools and school leaders today contend with a dizzying array of demands, including the need to comply with high-stakes accountability systems. The ability to make sense of these multiple pressures and guide the school to craft an appropriate organizational response is an important but little-understood aspect of school leadership (Firestone…
Descriptors: Research Design, Qualitative Research, Accountability, Instructional Leadership
Howard S. Bloom; Saskia Levy Thompson; Rebecca Unterman – MDRC, 2010
Since 2002, New York City has closed more than 20 underperforming public high schools, opened more than 200 new secondary schools, and introduced a centralized high school admissions process in which approximately 80,000 students a year indicate their school preferences from a wide-ranging choice of programs. At the heart of these reforms lie 123…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Educational Experience, Educational Improvement
Van Cura, Maureen – Journal of School Health, 2010
Background: This study sought to understand the relationship between school-based health centers (SBHCs) and academic outcomes such as early dismissal and loss of seat time (the time students are available in school to learn or to access support services). Methods: A quasi-experimental research design was used to compare rates of early dismissal…
Descriptors: Research Design, Poverty, Educational Objectives, School Nurses
Schwebach, J. Reid – American Biology Teacher, 2008
Inquiry-based, student-lead research may be a pinnacle of high school science education, and the implementation of inquiry themes at all grades is of profound importance. At The Beacon High School in New York City, all seniors, regardless of their scientific proclivity or interest, completed original science research projects as a graduation…
Descriptors: Research Design, Student Research, Science Projects, Seminars
