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Myra Snell; Loris Fagioli; Mallory Newell – RP Group, 2023
This report examines the success of students with lower levels of high school performance who began in transfer-level math as a result of Assembly Bill 705 (Irwin 2017). AB 705 is historic legislation that transformed placement and eventually ended developmental education in California's community colleges. Since community colleges are open access…
Descriptors: Prediction, High School Students, Student Placement, Mathematics Achievement
Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Mokher, Christine G.; Hu, Xinye; Spencer, Hayley; Hu, Shouping – Educational Researcher, 2020
Florida's Senate Bill 1720 allowed many students to bypass developmental education and enroll directly in introductory college-level courses. We use an interrupted time series design to introductory college-level courses enrollment and passing rates in English and math for three cohorts of college students prereform and three cohorts postreform.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Remedial Instruction, Introductory Courses, Enrollment
Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Mokher, Christine G.; Hu, Xinye; Spencer, Hayley; Hu, Shouping – Grantee Submission, 2020
Florida's Senate Bill 1720 allowed many students to bypass developmental education and enroll directly in introductory college-level courses. We use an interrupted time series design to introductory college-level courses enrollment and passing rates in English and math for three cohorts of college students prereform and three cohorts postreform.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Remedial Instruction, Introductory Courses, Enrollment
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Brewer, T. Jameson; Hartlep, Nicholas D.; Scott, Ian – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
Each year "Forbes" bestows a handful of "edu-preneurs" with the 30 Under 30 Award in Education (Under30), designating those individuals as the best hope for revolutionizing and reforming education. Boasting low recipient rates, "Forbes" elevates the manufactured expertise of awardees and the importance of their…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Social Networks, Privatization, Commercialization
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Auerbach, Anna Jo; Schussler, Elisabeth E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
The "Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education" final report challenged institutions to reform their biology courses to focus on process skills and student active learning, among other recommendations. A large southeastern university implemented curricular changes to its majors' introductory biology sequence in alignment with…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Alignment (Education), Scientific Literacy, Science Achievement
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Stoker, Ginger; Mellor, Lynn; Sullivan, Kate – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2018
This study examines Algebra II completion and failure rates for students entering Texas public high schools from 2007/08 through 2014/15. This period spans the time when Texas students, beginning with the 2007/08 grade 9 cohort, were required to take four courses each in English, math (including Algebra II), science, and social studies (called the…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Algebra, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Failure
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Vickers, Jerome – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2016
This study focused on how a cohort of scholarly practitioners extended the traditional Doctorate in Education (Ed.D.) model at Lynn University by undertaking a nontraditional group Dissertation in Practice (DiP). The participants were a cohort of 11 scholarly practitioners known as Cohort 5 who became the first Lynn University doctoral students to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Nontraditional Education, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study, Cohort Analysis
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Matlock, Ki L.; Goering, Christian Zachary; Endacott, Jason; Collet, Vicki Stewart; Denny, George S.; Jennings-Davis, Jennifer; Wright, Ginney Patricia – Educational Review, 2016
Common Core State Standards are embroiled in controversy and politics. The need to continue to study the many facets of educational changes remains critical, especially from the perspective of the teachers experiencing such changes firsthand. Existing surveys of teacher perceptions regarding the Common Core State Standards have focused primarily…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Teacher Attitudes, Program Implementation, Educational Change
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Strunk, Katharine O.; Marsh, Julie A.; Hashim, Ayesha K.; Bush-Mecenas, Susan; Weinstein, Tracey – Education Finance and Policy, 2016
We examine the Los Angeles Unified School District's Public School Choice Initiative (PSCI), which sought to turnaround the district's lowest-performing schools. We ask whether school turnaround impacted student outcomes, and what explains variations in outcomes across reform cohorts. We use a Comparative Interrupted Time Series approach using…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Change, Outcomes of Education, School Districts
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Passarelli, Angela M.; Boyatzis, Richard E.; Wei, Hongguo – Journal of Management Education, 2018
Graduate management education seeks to enhance the likelihood that graduates will be effective leaders, managers, or professionals. This requires programs that are designed to enable students to develop the related competencies, and increasing regulatory pressures require programs to document evidence of success. However, both the design of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Leadership Training
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McDonald, Fiona J.; Reynolds, John N. J.; Bixley, Ann; Spronken-Smith, Rachel A. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2017
This study aimed to evaluate and compare approaches to learning by a longitudinal cohort of undergraduate students as they progressed from their first to third years of study in anatomy and physiology. "The Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students" (ASSIST) was completed at the beginning and end of their first year of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Learning Strategies, Educational Change, Longitudinal Studies
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Palmer, Douglas J.; Sadiq, Hissa M.; Lynch, Patricia; Parker, Dawn; Viruru, Radhika; Knight, Stephanie; Waxman, Hersh; Alford, Beverly; Brown, Danielle Bairrington; Rollins, Kayla; Stillisano, Jacqueline; Abu-Tineh, Abdullah M. Hamdan; Nasser, Ramzi; Allen, Nancy; Al-Binali, Hessa; Ellili, Maha; Al-Kateeb, Haithem; Al-Kubaisi, Huda – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Qatar initiated a K-12 national educational reform in 2001. However, there is limited information on the instructional practices of the teachers in the reform schools. This project was an observational study of classrooms with a stratified random sample of the first six cohorts of reform schools. Specifically, 156 classrooms were observed in 29…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Educational Change, Educational Practices
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Engel, Mimi; Claessens, Amy; Watts, Tyler; Farkas, George – Educational Researcher, 2016
Analyzing data from two nationally representative kindergarten cohorts, we examine the mathematics content teachers cover in kindergarten. We expand upon prior research, finding that kindergarten teachers report emphasizing basic mathematics content. Although teachers reported increased coverage of advanced content between the 1998-1999 and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Mathematics Achievement, Course Content, Cohort Analysis
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Kupers, Elisa; van Dijk, Marijn; van Geert, Paul – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2017
Learning implies change. Inside and outside schools, we aim for students to change into people with more skills and knowledge as well as with a growing sense of agency and responsibility. Furthermore, education itself is subject to constant change. In this article, we examine change in 3 case studies in the context of individual music lessons from…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Music Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Mixed Methods Research
Tonini, Donna C.; Burbules, Nicholas C.; Gunsalus, C. K. – Educational Considerations, 2016
This manuscript highlights the development of a leadership preparation program known as the Nanyang Technological University Leadership Academy (NTULA), exploring the leadership challenges unique to a university undergoing rapid growth in a highly multicultural context, and the hybrid model of leadership it developed in response to globalization.…
Descriptors: Models, Blended Learning, Higher Education, Global Approach
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