Using the 2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) datasets for geography, we explore relationships between geography achievement in the eighth grade and contextual variables related to the content and organization of the geography/social studies curriculum. Differences in student achievement are associated with grade-level…

This brief provides a policy perspective into the recent NWEA research on how COVID-19 has affected student learning. It builds on previous research showing achievement levels stalling over the 2022-23 school year from the previous year. This analysis on student learning from grades 3-8 shows that academic recovery has stalled for older learners…

In light of the strong correlation between Kindergarten performance and later cognitive and achievement outcomes, this paper investigates the link between student achievement and the educational background characteristics of Kindergarten teachers. This study will utilize the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K), a…

Two studies involving 253 Norwegian sixth and eighth graders found that self-defeating ego orientation was associated with high anxiety and negatively related to achievement and self-perception. Self-enhancing ego orientation was positively related to achievement, self-perception, and intrinsic motivation. (SLD)

For years people have assumed there is an unquestionable connection between school funding and student achievement. A study of Alabama students in grades 4 and 8 attempted to unearth the truth about the widely held assumption that the more money spent on a school the higher the student achievement will be. The study only examined funds that are…

A random sample of fourth and eighth grade Title I students who either did or did not attend summer school was tested to determine what effect the Title I summer school program had on student achievement and summer loss in reading and mathematics. Academic achievement was assessed by the Stanford Achievement Tests. The results indicated summer…

During the 1985-86 school year, 16 North Carolina school units began a four-year pilot program that used a variety of incentives, evaluation strategies, and staff development activities to improve teachers' skills, and, indirectly, the achievement of students. After three years of the Career Development Program (CDP), the California Achievement…

Results of the Tennessee Basic Skills Test administered statewide to more than 64,000 grade 8 pupils in April 1980 demonstrate that achievement of pupils with kindergarten background is superior to that of non-kindergarten pupils in mathematics, spelling, language, and reading. The effect was greater for mathematics and language than for reading…

The elementary schools attended by students may affect their attitudes toward and academic performance in junior high school. Eighth grade students attending a junior high school in Kentucky in 1980 were asked to indicate how they felt about junior high school before they entered the seventh grade and what their attitudes were by the end of the…

Assessed the effects of youth and parent factors on school functioning among 70 black 8th graders. Student, parent, and teacher surveys indicated that hostile control positively related to delinquency symptoms; achievement control negatively related to academic performance; negative peer behavior positively related to aggression and delinquency…

Findings from a survey of 13,121 8th graders indicate that, although school warmth (defined as teacher caring, warmth, and supportiveness) was significantly related to academic achievement and student participation, the relationship between warmth and achievement was nonexistent after the effect of participation was eliminated. (SLD)

Describes the purposes and missions of the Partnership for Access to Higher Mathematics (PATH) Project. Focuses on the degree to which the projects' goals were achieved in an eighth- grade mathematics program. Provides demographic data and the results of statistical analyses used to determine the effectiveness of the project, and concludes with…

In response to citizens' need and right to know about how North Dakota students perform in mathematics, the Department of Public Instruction and the North Dakota Council of Teachers of Mathematics administered a criterion-referenced mathematics assessment in grades 4 (1,298 students) and 8 (1,475 students). Also included were items from the…

The results of the 1977 and 1979 Statewide Assessment Tests in Alaska are presented. This assessment testing is part of the testing component within the Alaska Statewide Instructional Support System (SISS), and is based on specific objectives critical to a student's academic success. Objectives covered are: mathematics computation, mathematics…

Views about the purposes of school, motivational orientations, and beliefs about the causes of academic success were examined in a sample of 119 seventh- and eighth-grade students of very high academic ability and attainment. Results indicate that competitive and acquisitive attitudes may be incompatible with interest in learning. (TJH)