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Overview of Ten Child Mental Health Clinical Outcome Measures: Testing of Psychometric Properties with Diverse Client Populations in the U.S.
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F. Alethea Marti; Nadereh Pourat; Christopher Lee; Bonnie T. Zima – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2022
While many standardized assessment measures exist to track child mental health treatment outcomes, the degree to which such tools have been adequately tested for reliability and validity across race, ethnicity, and class is uneven. This paper examines the corpus of published tests of psychometric properties for the ten standardized measures used…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Outcome Measures, Psychometrics, Standardized Tests
Merit Pay, Case-by-Case: Variables Affecting Student Achievement, Teacher Retention, and the Problem of Standardized Tests
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Kim, Sung Joong – Cogent Education, 2021
This study encompasses the history, definition, and implementation of merit pay to identify the variables that affect student achievement and teacher retention. By reviewing 13 studies on American education relevant to the policy, this study aims to determine how merit pay influenced student achievement and teacher retention rates. In the United…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Salaries, Correlation
Generational Differences in Academic Achievement among Immigrant Youths: A Meta-Analytic Review
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Duong, Mylien T.; Badaly, Daryaneh; Liu, Freda F.; Schwartz, David; McCarty, Carolyn A. – Review of Educational Research, 2016
Research on generational differences in immigrant youths' academic achievement has yielded conflicting findings. This meta-analysis reconciles discrepant findings by testing meta-analytic moderators. Fifty-three studies provided 74 comparisons on academic outcomes. First- and second-generation youths did not significantly differ on academic…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Academic Achievement, Meta Analysis, Educational Research
The Other Side of the Asian Academic Success Myth: The Hmong Story.
Walker, Wendy D. – 1988
Despite the myth of Asian academic success, there is a distinction between the educational background and academic achievements of immigrant and refugee children from literate, urban, western-influenced backgrounds, and refugee children from pre-literate, rural cultures that are uninfluenced by Western technology and education. This is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Cultural Differences, Educational Attainment
Relationships between High-Stakes Testing Policies and Student Achievement after Controlling for Demographic Factors in Aggregated Data
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Marchant, Gregory J.; Paulson, Sharon E.; Shunk, Adam – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2006
With the mandate of "No Child Left Behind," high-stakes achievement testing is firmly in place in every state. The few studies that have explored the effectiveness of high-stakes testing using NAEP scores have yielded mixed results. This study considered state demographic characteristics for each NAEP testing period in reading, writing,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests
Predictors of Academic Achievement among Asian American and White Students. College Board Report No. 88-11.
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Sue, Stanley; Abe, Jennifer – 1988
This study examined the following predictors of academic success for 4,113 Asian American students and 1,000 White students who enrolled as freshmen on any of the eight University of California campuses during fall 1984: (1) high school grade point average (GPA); (2) Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)--verbal score; (3) SAT--mathematical score; (4)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Asian American Students, Asian Americans