Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 1 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 174 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 386 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
| Ladd, Helen F. | 9 |
| Mulligan, Neil W. | 6 |
| Goldhaber, Dan | 5 |
| Kim, James S. | 4 |
| Vernon-Feagans, Lynne | 4 |
| Bastian, Kevin C. | 3 |
| Blair, Clancy | 3 |
| Burchinal, Margaret | 3 |
| Clotfelter, Charles T. | 3 |
| Dam, Margaret | 3 |
| Dodge, Kenneth A. | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
Education Level
Location
| North Carolina | 420 |
| Florida | 36 |
| California | 30 |
| Georgia | 27 |
| South Carolina | 26 |
| Virginia | 26 |
| Kentucky | 24 |
| Pennsylvania | 24 |
| Texas | 24 |
| Tennessee | 21 |
| Massachusetts | 20 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 2 |
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 4 |
| Does not meet standards | 2 |
Download full textHaynie, Glenda; Regan, Roger – Wake County Public School System, 2011
The four-year cohort graduation rate for WCPSS [Wake County Public School System] in 2009-10 was 78.2%, down slightly from 2008-09, when 78.4% of that year's cohort graduated within four years. Female students in WCPSS had a much higher graduation rate than male students (82.9% vs. 73.6%). Graduation rates for the Asian (91.3%), Hispanic/Latino…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, School Districts, Gender Differences
Direct linkSmith, Luke Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine how the one-to-one laptop initiative affected student achievement gaps for students at a single high school in Mooresville, NC. The variable in this study was the preexisting End of Course exams for Algebra I and English I for the two school years prior to the one-to-one laptop implementation year…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Laptop Computers, High School Students, Algebra
Holt, Yolanda Feimster – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation evaluates the relationship between African American English and White Vernacular English as spoken in a small rural town in western North Carolina for consistencies in vowel production by group membership and for participation in the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS), a vowel rotation currently occurring in the Southern United States. A…
Descriptors: Vowels, Word Lists, Statistical Analysis, North American English
Knuth, Sean B. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
A significant body of research exists on the development of early literacy skills and their relationship to the development of literacy as a whole. Phonological awareness, orthographic processing, rapid automatized naming, phonological memory, and receptive vocabulary have all been shown to be predictive of early reading outcome measures. What is…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Early Reading, Reading Achievement
Maples, Jeffrey B. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of class size and student achievement in mathematics and reading. The study focused on grades 6 through 8 and used the results of the North Carolina EOG tests in mathematics and reading for the academic year 2006-2007. This study examined the effects of class size and student achievement in…
Descriptors: Class Size, Middle Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Small Classes
The Nation's Report Card Science 2009 State Snapshot Report. North Carolina. Grade 8, Public Schools
Peer reviewedNational Center for Education Statistics, 2011
Guided by a new framework, the NAEP science assessment was updated in 2009 to keep the content current with key developments in science, curriculum standards, assessments, and research. The 2009 framework organizes science content into three broad content areas. Physical science includes concepts related to properties and changes of matter, forms…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Ethnic Groups
Chaturvedi, Sushil; Prabhakaran, Ramamurthy; Yoon, Jaewan; Abdel-Salam, Tarek – Advances in Engineering Education, 2011
A novel application of web-based virtual laboratories to prepare students for physical experiments is explored in some detail. The pedagogy of supplementing physical laboratory with web-based virtual laboratories is implemented by developing a web-based tool, designated in this work as "eLIVE", an acronym for Engineering Laboratory…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Laboratories, Engineering Education, Technology Uses in Education
Baenen, Nancy – Wake County Public School System, 2011
The longitudinal study of the 2005-06 preschool in Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) found short-term gains during the preschool year, but limited impact by kindergarten and no average impact by the end of 3rd grade on achievement, retention rates, special education placements, or attendance. Small sample sizes limit conclusions that can be…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Longitudinal Studies, Preschool Education, Attendance
Osler, James Edward; Waden, Carl – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2012
This paper provides an active discourse on the use of innovative solutions to conduct an in-depth investigation on the success and viability of 9th Grade Freshman Academies, Centers, and Center Models to aid in the retention of at risk students. These types of academic programs provide an active solution for the retention and projected completion…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High School Freshmen, At Risk Students, Academic Persistence
National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
Each state and jurisdiction that participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2011 mathematics assessment receives a one-page snapshot report that presents key findings and trends in a condensed format. Overall results, achievement level percentages and average score results, comparison of the average score in 2011 to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Economic Status, Educational Assessment
The Nation's Report Card Science 2009 State Snapshot Report. North Carolina. Grade 4, Public Schools
National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
Guided by a new framework, the NAEP science assessment was updated in 2009 to keep the content current with key developments in science, curriculum standards, assessments, and research. The 2009 framework organizes science content into three broad content areas. Physical science includes concepts related to properties and changes of matter, forms…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Science
The Nation's Report Card Science 2011 State Snapshot Report. North Carolina. Grade 8, Public Schools
National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
A representative sample of 122,000 eighth-graders participated in the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) science assessment, which is designed to measure students' knowledge and abilities in the areas of physical science, life science, and Earth and space sciences. This report covers the overall results, achievement level…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Economic Status, Educational Assessment
McFadden, Cheryl; Maahs-Fladung, Cathy; Beck-Frazier, Susan; Bruckner, Kermit – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2009
This study was designed to investigate whether significant differences exist among the perceptions of leadership behaviors of female principals in North Carolina using Bolman and Deal's (1984) four frames (structural, human resource, political, and symbolic) for analysis. Participants consisted of 1,245 female principals from elementary,middle,…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Leadership, Principals, Females
The Nation's Report Card Reading 2011 State Snapshot Report. North Carolina. Grade 4, Public Schools
National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
Each state and jurisdiction that participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2011 reading assessment receives a one-page snapshot report that presents key findings and trends in a condensed format. Overall results, achievement level percentages and average score results, comparison of the average score in 2011 to other…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
Redd, Zakia; Boccanfuso, Christopher; Walker, Karen; Princiotta, Daniel; Knewstub, Dylan; Moore, Kristin – Child Trends, 2012
The educational achievement and attainment of young people in the United States has been a long-standing issue of concern. While analyses of long-term trend data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that students in the United States have made gains in reading and mathematics over the past few decades, a sizeable…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Evidence, Intervention, Elementary Secondary Education
