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Darlene Atkinson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
State reading exams are crucial in determining students' reading proficiency. The problem is students in inner-city Title 1 middle schools in New York City are consistently performing below the national average on the mandated New York State Reading Exam. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to explore barriers teachers and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Barriers, Urban Schools
Preeya Pandya Mbekeani – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Validity studies of college admissions tests have found that black and Hispanic students typically perform worse in college, as measured by their freshman grade point average (FGPA), than predicted based on college admissions test scores. These studies, however, conflate student and school characteristics when estimating differential prediction.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Grade Point Average, Racial Differences