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Dauter, Luke; Olivieri, Samantha – Education Cities, 2018
The Education Equality Index (EEI), created through a unique collaboration of GreatSchools and Education Cities, is a nationally comparative measure that looks at how well students from low-income families are achieving in schools, cities, and states across the country and The EEI taps GreatSchools' national school information database and…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Measures (Individuals), Low Income Students, Academic Achievement
Sass, Tim R. – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools (NJ1), 2012
The core work of the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools consists of four stages: identifying practices of highly effective high schools, designing interventions and transfer of practices, evaluating the intervention's implementation and effects, and evaluating implementation at scale. The purpose of this report is to describe the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Change, High Schools, Research Methodology
Rutschow, Elizabeth Zachry; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Brock, Thomas; Orr, Genevieve; Cerna, Oscar; Cullinan, Dan; Kerrigan, Monica Reid; Jenkins, Davis; Gooden, Susan; Martin, Kasey – MDRC, 2011
In 2004, Lumina Foundation for Education launched "Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count," a national initiative aimed at improving success among community college students, particularly low-income students and students of color. Now encompassing more than 130 institutions in 24 states and the District of Columbia, Achieving the…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Program Descriptions, Student Characteristics, College Administration
Fielding, J. E.; And Others – 1977
The State Criminal Justice Telecommunications (STACOM) project has developed techniques for the identification and analysis of user requirements and designs for networks for the dissemination of criminal justice information on a state-wide basis. Techniques developed for user requirements analysis include methods for determining data required,…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Criminal Law, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Fielding, J. E.; And Others – 1977
Requirements analysis and design for the Texas Criminal Justice Telecommunications Network are provided in this report on the application in the state of Texas of techniques developed by the STACOM project. These techniques focus on identification of user requirements and network designs for criminal justice information on a state-wide basis.…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Criminal Law, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Murphy, Norman L. – 1974
The purpose of this investigation was to identify those demographic and programmatic (independent) variables which were the best predictors of student success in a remedial program, as measured by four different criterion (dependent) variables: grade point average, persistence, increase in internality in locus of control, and increase in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Data Analysis, Demography