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Alex Seeskin; Thomas Massion; Alexandra Usher – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2022
The elementary and middle years give educators a profound opportunity to impact students' long-term outcomes: in this research, students with strong grades and attendance in elementary school were more likely to graduate high school and enroll in college than their peers. Although some Chicago Public Schools (CPS) elementary schools use CPS's…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Outcomes of Education, Grade 3, Grade 4
Russo-Ponsaran, Nicole M.; McKown, Clark; Karls, Ashley; Wu, Irene Y. H. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Virtual Environment for Social Information Processing (VESIP™) is a web-based social information processing assessment developed for youth in grades 3-7. VESIP was developed to address: (1) the broader assessment of social information processing in a variety of socially challenging situations; and (2) the need for technically strong and scalable…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Interpersonal Competence, Computer Simulation, Test Reliability
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Chaudhuri, Parama – Distance Learning, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic began in the late months of 2019, and by the spring of 2020, to limit transmission of the virus, schools across the globe closed and transitioned to emergency online teaching. While the move to online teaching and learning was inevitable, many learners, especially in rural and remote areas, found that online schooling had…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Barragan Torres, Mariana; Cashdollar, Sarah; Wang, Yi; Bates, Meg – Online Submission, 2022
In March of 2020, in response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of Illinois mandated the transition to remote instruction for all schools. Although schools had the option to resume in-person instruction during the 2020-21 school year (SY21), the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) acknowledged that in-person instruction may not…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Cashdollar, Sarah; Wang, Yi; Barragan Torres, Mariana; Bates, Meg – Online Submission, 2022
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 was marked by a transition to remote learning in Illinois schools and nationwide. The following school year, schools and families faced difficult decisions about how and when to return to in-person learning. School leaders, parents and caregivers, and students considered how to balance…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Hedberg, E. C.; Hedges, Larry – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to showcase new research that seeks to provide guidance on the heterogeneity of treatment effects by utilizing the variance of demographic differences in state assessments. This study is focused on a simple randomized block design where students are nested within schools, and within each school students are randomized…
Descriptors: Databases, Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Research, Research Design
Northwest Evaluation Association, 2016
Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) is committed to providing partners with useful tools to help make inferences from the Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) interim assessment scores. One important tool is the concordance table between MAP and state summative assessments. Concordance tables have been used for decades to relate scores on…
Descriptors: Scores, Inferences, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula; Steenbergen-Hu, Saiying; Thomson, Dana; Rosen, Rhoda – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2017
This longitudinal study examined the outcomes of Project Excite on reducing minority students' achievement gaps in STEM over 14 years. Project Excite was designed to provide intensive supplemental enrichment and accelerated programming for high-potential, underrepresented minority students from third through eighth grades to better prepare them…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, STEM Education, Longitudinal Studies, Minority Group Students
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Brian R. Flay – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Several social-emotional learning (SEL) or social-emotional and character development (SECD) programs have been shown to be effective at improving SEL/SECD skills, and some have also provided evidence of effectiveness in improving student behavior and academic achievement (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, 2011). Very few SEL…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Emotional Development, Social Development, Values Education
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Dadey, Nathan; Briggs, Derek C. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2012
A vertical scale, in principle, provides a common metric across tests with differing difficulties (e.g., spanning multiple grades) so that statements of "absolute" growth can be made. This paper compares 16 states' 2007-2008 effect size growth trends on vertically scaled reading and math assessments across grades 3 to 8. Two patterns…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Scaling, Effect Size, Reading Tests
Stachowiak, Jeannie E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a difference in how high and low performing elementary school districts use and analyze data to differentiate instruction, make changes to district/grade level curriculum, determine professional development needs, determine teacher effectiveness, and determine the use of school district…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Achievement, Low Achievement, Data
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Roderick, Melissa; Nagaoka, Jenny – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2005
In the mid-1990s, the Chicago Public Schools declared an end to social promotion and instituted promotional requirements based on standardized test scores in the third, sixth, and eighth grades. This article examines the experience of third and sixth graders who were retained under Chicago's policy from 1997 to 2000. The authors examine the…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 6, Standardized Tests, Social Promotion
Butkowski, Jean; And Others – 1994
This report describes a program for improving higher-order thinking skills in mathematics of (n=17) third-, (n=27) fifth-, and (n=27) sixth-grade students in a middle class community. Three interventions were chosen: (1) cooperative learning to develop student self-confidence and to improve student achievement, (2) the instruction of students in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Dept. of School Improvement Services. – 1986
This document, developed by the Illinois State Board of Education, identifies five goals for learning in the social sciences, and provides sample learning objectives for grades 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, which are consistent with these goals. The state goals for learning are broadly stated expressions of what the Illinois State Board of Education wants and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12
Esposito, Phil; Trepanier, Leila J. – 2001
This document discusses a project designed to meet the need for increased self awareness and emotional well being of children in a school setting. The targeted population included kindergarten, third grade, and sixth grade students from a suburban middle class community in the Chicago area. Through a review of the literature and observations made…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education, Emotional Development, Grade 3
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