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Download full textXu, Zeyu; Nichols, Austin – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2010
The gold standard in making causal inference on program effects is a randomized trial. Most randomization designs in education randomize classrooms or schools rather than individual students. Such "clustered randomization" designs have one principal drawback: They tend to have limited statistical power or precision. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Test Format, Reading Tests, Norm Referenced Tests, Research Design
Direct linkFriedman, Daniel B.; Alexander, Julie S. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2007
First-year seminars have increasingly been used as anchor courses in learning communities. This study investigated the impact participation in Freshman Seminar had on the grade earned in a linked learning community course in fall 2004. Grades in the linked course for 1,294 first-year students who were enrolled in 37 different learning communities…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Transitional Programs, College Freshmen, Integrated Curriculum
Annetta, Leonard; Mangrum, Jennifer; Holmes, Shawn; Collazo, Kimberly; Cheng, Meng-Tzu – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine students' learning of simple machines, a fifth-grade (ages 10-11) forces and motion unit, and student engagement using a teacher-created Multiplayer Educational Gaming Application. This mixed-method study collected pre-test/post-test results to determine student knowledge about simple machines. A survey…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Video Games, Educational Games, Learning Processes
National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
Representative samples of fourth- and eighth-grade public school students from 21 urban districts participated in the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics. Eighteen of the districts participating in the 2011 NAEP Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) participated in earlier assessment years, while three districts…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Algebra, Comparative Analysis, Disabilities
National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
Representative samples of fourth- and eighth-grade public school students from 21 urban districts participated in the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading. Eighteen of the districts participating in the 2011 NAEP Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) participated in earlier assessment years, while three districts…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Research for Action, 2011
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in the development and dissemination of instructional tools to support teachers' incorporation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into their classroom instruction. Math experts have developed formative assessment lessons (FALs) that teachers can incorporate throughout the year's curriculum.…
Descriptors: State Standards, Formative Evaluation, Suburban Schools, Urban Schools
Yearwood, Douglas L.; Abdum-Muhaymin, Jibril – Preventing School Failure, 2007
In this study, the authors present the findings of an evaluation of North Carolina's juvenile structured day programs (JSDP), a type of alternative learning program for suspended or expelled court-involved juveniles. A 36-item questionnaire was mailed to each of North Carolina's 41 juvenile structured day programs. The authors surveyed issues…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Juvenile Courts, Delinquency, Attendance
The Nation's Report Card Reading 2009 State Snapshot Report. North Carolina. Grade 8, Public Schools
National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
Each state and jurisdiction that participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2009 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 2009 to other…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
McWilliams, Andrew; Rosemond, Cherie; Roberts, Ellen; Calleson, Diane; Busby-Whitehead, Jan – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2008
The University of North Carolina Mobile Student Health Action Coalition (UNC MSHAC) at Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a voluntary service-learning program in which interdisciplinary teams of graduate level health professional students provide monthly home visits to isolated, community-dwelling elders with complex medical and social issues.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Program Evaluation, Home Visits, Learning Experience
Research for Action, 2011
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in the development and dissemination of instructional tools to support teachers' incorporation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into their classroom instruction. Literacy experts have developed a framework and a set of templates that teachers and other educators can use to develop content…
Descriptors: State Standards, Suburban Schools, Urban Schools, Rural Schools
Peer reviewedMcCoy, Leah P. – Journal of Educational Research, 2005
The author examined the effect of demographic variables and attitudes on achievement of 8th-grade algebra students. Participants (N = 107) in 4 classes completed a questionnaire that determined demographic characteristics. They also completed attitude scales at the beginning and end of the school year. Dependent measures were the North Carolina…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Mathematics Tests, Teacher Effectiveness, Algebra
Ladd, Helen F. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2009
This quantitative study uses data from North Carolina to examine the extent to which survey based perceptions of working conditions are predictive of policy-relevant outcomes, independent of other school characteristics such as the demographic mix of the school's students. Working conditions emerge as highly predictive of teachers' stated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Statistical Analysis
Peer reviewedLyons, James E.; Gooden, John S. – ERS Spectrum, 2002
Examines differences in knowledge of the North Carolina Student Accountability Program between two groups of experienced and beginning principals. Finds significant differences in the level of knowledge between experienced and beginning principals. (Contains 16 references.) (PKP)
Descriptors: Accountability, Beginning Principals, Elementary Secondary Education, Principals
Hornsby, Karen – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2007
"What does deep ethical understanding look like and how can we measure the progression of this aptitude?" Qualitative and quantitative data collected from students in Contemporary Moral Problems courses over two successive semesters revealed that the development of moral reasoning skills is a slow process. The progression of moral…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Moral Values, Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills
Winecoff, Bonnie Watts – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to describe implemented and planned Latino student success activities in North Carolina community colleges and to examine variations in these activities based on the degree of Latino settlement in the college service area. This study was designed to answer the following research questions: (1) What Latino student…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Statistical Analysis, Deans, Hispanic American Students
