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Crumley, Sean; DeJarnette, Anna F. – Science Teacher, 2022
As a high school AP Physics 1 and 2 teacher, Sean Crumley wanted to create a curricular unit that would authentically connect literacy, opportunities for writing, and science standards while engaging a 21st-century student. This article provides an example of how Crumley incorporated writing into one of his AP physics units, and it could serve as…
Descriptors: Writing Achievement, Advanced Placement, Physics, High School Students
Yikai Lu; Teresa M. Ober; Cheng Liu; Ying Cheng – Grantee Submission, 2022
Machine learning methods for predictive analytics have great potential for uncovering trends in educational data. However, simple linear models still appear to be most widely used, in part, because of their interpretability. This study aims to address the issues of interpretability of complex machine learning classifiers by conducting feature…
Descriptors: Prediction, Statistics Education, Data Analysis, Learning Analytics
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Cantu, Gerald C. – Theory and Research in Education, 2019
Secondary education schools in the United States routinely distribute differential educational provisions to students through a widely implemented tracking system. This article aims to show that this tracking system is unjust. It begins with a characterization of the tracking system as it is typically implemented in the United States, and its…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Secondary Education, Equal Education, Social Justice
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Guerrero Farías, María Lucía – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021
Global citizenship education has been in the world agenda for some time. However, different understandings of global citizenship are at play not only on the official curricula but also in the daily enactments of students within each institution. The research presented in this article seeks to investigate the notions of citizenship practices in an…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Case Studies, Global Approach, Citizenship
Matthews, Lowell, Jr. – Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2021
The first College Acceleration Playbook, "Accelerating Students from High School to College and Careers: A Playbook for State Policymakers" (ED612490) identifies a series of non-negotiables that states, colleges, universities and schools can use to strengthen their college acceleration programs to benefit all students --especially those…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), College Preparation, High School Students, Dual Enrollment
Eagan, Joshua; Koedel, Cory – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2021
We use statewide administrative data from Missouri to document the prevalence of Industry Recognized Credential (IRC) programs in public high schools and understand the characteristics of students who complete IRCs. We show that 9 percent of Missouri students complete an IRC during their senior year of high school. IRC completers have lower…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Public Schools, Credentials, High School Seniors
Iowa Department of Education, 2023
The 2023 edition of the Annual Condition of Education Report (COE) marks the 34th edition of the report. For over 30 years, the Department has published the COE in order to provide education stakeholders critical data about the status of Iowa's education system. The 2023 COE includes a wide variety of content including information about Iowa's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Special Education, Early Childhood Education, Enrollment
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Ball, Doug; Tofel-Grehl, Colby – Physics Teacher, 2020
Electric potential is one of the most challenging concepts taught in high school physics classes due to the abstract nature of the concept. When taught, electric potential is often taught using a poorly triangulated set of instructional analogies, each possessing different strengths and limitations. Within this paper we share our learning from a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Physics, Science Instruction, Energy
Chauncey Malachi – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In the American Education system, high school plays an important role. High school education in the country is impacted by several factors such as peer pressure, parental influence and personal characteristics. There are discrepancies in achievements between Black and White students across the United States. Therefore, this paper will aim at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Males, High School Students
Rocha, Janet; Cabral, Brian; Chen, Erin; Rodriguez, Carlos; Yancy, Clyde W. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2023
Using a case study approach, we explored the science and math classroom experiences of urban high school students. Our purposeful sample included 11 high-achieving students (mostly minoritized students) who graduated from the same school and participated in an out-of-school science and medicine/health program. Using 35 semistructured interviews…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High School Students, Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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Cohen, Omri – English in Education, 2021
Teaching and reading literature are commonly viewed as contributing to the cultivation of empathy. This article presents critical and pedagogical approaches to test this view and suggests a distinction between low-level, simple empathy inspired by the reading and teaching of "The Tortilla Curtain" and a more complex, self-critical…
Descriptors: Empathy, Literature, Teaching Methods, Literary Criticism
Kellie Nicole Katzenberger – ProQuest LLC, 2021
High schoolers have opportunities to jump-start postsecondary education and save money on college by participating in dual enrollment or Advanced Placement coursework. Students and families in a large Maryland district need to decide which pathway offers the most financial gains given academic and demographic characteristics when offered both…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Advanced Placement, Dual Enrollment, High School Students
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Burns, Laura; Leu, Katherine – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
These Web Tables provide the most recent national statistics on the availability of these academically rigorous courses and programs, the percentage of graduates who earn high school credits in them, and the postsecondary outcomes of students who earned varying numbers of such credits. They use nationally representative survey and transcript data…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, Dual Enrollment, High School Students
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Sandoval, Scott; Lamb, Jodi A. – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2023
With the changes in the educational landscape, holding students' attention has become an even more crucial point. Educators are having to find creative ways and means to engage students and make learning 'fun'. There have been numerous research studies to show that gamification can be used to drive student engagement, achievement, and reinforce…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Advanced Placement, Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods
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McEachin, Andrew; Domina, Thurston; Penner, Andrew – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020
How should schools assign students to more rigorous math courses so as best to help their academic outcomes? We identify several hundred California middle schools that used 7th-grade test scores to place students into 8th-grade algebra courses and use a regression discontinuity design to estimate average impacts and heterogeneity across schools.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Mathematics, Mathematics Tests, Scores
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