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Download full textUshomirsky, Natasha; Hall, Daria – Education Trust, 2010
With the focus of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) on struggling schools and reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) on the horizon, now is the time to have an honest conversation about what people know--and don't know--about school-level trends. To spur this conversation and to help state and local…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Legislation, Middle Schools
Fields, Helen; Cosgrove, John – 2001
This paper examines potential relationships between students' reading proficiency and performance in general psychology classes. The primary research objective was to determine if there existed a relationship between reading level, as measured by a student's initial ACCUPLACER reading placement, and performance in a general psychology class, as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Outcomes of Education
MacDougall, Allan – Southwestern College Faculty Bulletin-Information, 1977
As part of an ongoing effort to understand the nature of student performance and persistence at Southwestern College (SC), a study was conducted in fall 1976 to determine the effect of reading ability on student course performance. An analysis of the Nelson-Denny Reading Test (NDRT) scores of 4,610 students revealed that, on an average, students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Courses, Educational Counseling
Peer reviewedMacdonald-Ross, Michael; Scott, Bernard – Open Learning, 1997
Analysis of reading tests (cloze and vocabulary) completed by first-year undergraduates at the Open University (Great Britain) demonstrated that many students in open-entry undergraduate programs have difficulty reading academic texts and that this difficulty has a negative impact on their success. (Contains 18 figures and six tables.) (PEN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Lewis, Merrilee R.; And Others – 1985
A study was conducted in fall 1985 to determine how well students at San Joaquin Delta College (SJDC) were prepared in reading, writing, and mathematics, comparing students by ethnicity, high school status, and age. SJDC uses the Comparative Guidance Placement (CGP) Tests to to assess all new students who do not have an Associate of Arts degree or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, College Freshmen, Community Colleges
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1975
Presented are the records of 1976 seniors in the United States and who registered for the College Boards before April of their senior year. Statistical data presented includes information on: (1) type of high school; (2) ethnic background; (3) high school record; (4) test scores; (5) college plans; (6) activities; (7) skills and abilities; and (8)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests
