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Direct linkKim, Sunha; Chang, Mido; Park, Jeehyun – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2018
Survival analysis is an advanced statistical method to investigate the occurrence and the timing of an important event such as school access, dropout, and graduation in a longitudinal framework. The aim of our study is to provide practical guidelines for empirical researchers in choosing an appropriate survival analysis model. For this goal, this…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Longitudinal Studies, Access to Education, English Language Learners
Download full textHopstock, Paul J.; Pelczar, Marisa P. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
This technical report and user's guide is designed to provide researchers with an overview of the design and implementation of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), as well as with information on how to access the PISA 2009 data. This information is meant to supplement that presented in Organization for Economic Cooperation…
Descriptors: Parent Materials, Academic Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Program Effectiveness
Eaves, Ronald C.; And Others – Diagnostique, 1995
A table was produced to facilitate comparisons among standard scores on the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-Revised, in order to assist diagnosticians in determining intraindividual strengths and weaknesses, and thus contribute to instructional planning. (DB)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Hildebrand, Myrene; Hoover, H. D. – 1986
This study compared the reliability and validity of two different measures of reading ability, the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) and the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) Reading test and the ITBS Vocabulary test. The data consisted of scores of 377 grade 5 and grade 6 students on these tests, along with their assigned reading levels in the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Correlation, Grade 5, Grade 6
Gramenz, Gary W.; And Others – 1986
The study reported in this paper examined whether a disproportionate number of boys and girls in a given grade level at various schools might have an inequitable effect on the mean achievement test scores of those schools. The student population of the Palm Beach County Schools, Florida, reflecting a cross-section of socio-economic backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Grade 3
Kerstiens, Gene – 1986
This study investigated the effect of timed testing on developmental students' scores and developed data that might better reveal students' reading and testing behaviors. Three tests were administered to provide six variables, including the Cooperative English Test, Form 1A (Coop 1A); Cooperative English Test, Form 1B (Coop 1B); and Degrees of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Manning, Maryann; And Others – 1986
The reading achievement test scores of 239 low-income, southern, urban black students in grades three through eight were compared with their ability to comprehend the social studies books used in their classrooms. Achievement scores were obtained from the reading subtests of the Stanford Achievement Tests. A cloze passage was developed based on…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Black Students, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education
Massachusetts Advocacy Center, Boston. – 1988
The Metropolitan Achievement Test scores for Boston, Massachusetts, have improved from 1987 to 1988, with scores for 8 grades matching or exceeding the 50th percentile as established in 1986. Reading scores improved over the previous year in seven grades. Yet this "good news" provides little information about real reading skills or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Black Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Manning, Maryann; And Others – 1985
The results of different types of reading achievement measures were compared for 58 low-income urban black third graders. Two formal tests were administered: the norm-referenced California Achievement Tests (CAT), and the criterion-referenced Alabama Basic Competency Test (ABCT). Informal measures included the Houghton-Mifflin Informal Reading…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Achievement Rating, Black Students, Cloze Procedure
Achilles, C. M.; DuVall, Lloyd – 1983
Pupils at three elementary schools and one junior high school among Area 1 inner-city schools of St. Louis Missouri, were identified as scoring well below norms on standardized tests. An effort to change the educational programs at these schools netted financial support and the creation of Project SHAL (named for the schools involved). Inservice…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Educational Change
