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McQuarrie, Fiona – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2019
The number of non-native English speakers enrolling in British Columbia's (BC's) post-secondary system has likely increased in recent decades. This has led to concerns about whether such students have adequate English-language proficiency for academic success. Since it is impossible to accurately identify non-native English speakers in BC Transfer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Academic Standards
Ballard, Stephen C.; Maiden, Jeffrey – Journal of Education Finance, 2018
From 2009 to 2014, school districts in Oklahoma faced the challenge of educating a growing population of students to high academic standards and increased accountability while total state aid had been restricted to flat or negative levels annually. This study presents new knowledge about how district spending of increasingly scarce dollars relates…
Descriptors: School District Spending, School Districts, Educational Finance, Academic Achievement
Gresch, Lisa D.; Marchman, Virginia A.; Loi, Elizabeth C.; Fernald, Anne; Feldman, Heidi M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The aims of this study were to examine phonological short-term memory in children born preterm (PT) and to explore relations between this neuropsychological process and later language skills. Method: Children born PT (n = 74) and full term (FT; n = 60) participated in a nonword repetition (NWR) task at 36 months old. Standardized measures…
Descriptors: Phonology, Short Term Memory, Premature Infants, Neuropsychology
Kopkin, Nolan; Martin, Mirinda L; Hollar, Danielle – Health Education Journal, 2018
Objective: The Healthier Options for Public Schoolchildren (HOPS) intervention aimed simultaneously to change school policies regarding the nutritional content of school-provided meals, nutrition and healthy lifestyle curricula, and other school-based wellness activities. Researchers examined how HOPS affected students' academic achievement,…
Descriptors: Improvement, Standardized Tests, Scores, Nutrition
Sell, Mary Ellen – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This quasi-experimental, non-equivalent groups study investigated the effects of instructional text messages on the academic achievement and sense of connectedness of high school students enrolled in economics classes in north Georgia. Previous research on text messaging has shown that it (a) is the preferred method used by adolescents for…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Sense of Community
Anderson, Sherryl A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of the Bellarmine Literacy Project (BLP) on Kentucky Performance Rating Educational Progress (K-PREP) literacy scores, school behavior referrals, and suspensions for third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade African-American males. The study was designed to determine if the BLP improved student learning,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Standardized Tests, Scores, Referral
Snyder, Torrie LeShawn – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This retrospective correlational study was conducted to examine the relationship between admissions criteria and performance on the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) for undergraduate nursing students at one institution. The study also investigated factors from the existing data set that could be used to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Nursing Students
Mansfield, Katie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Educators have been faced with increasing demands to not only achieve, but also improve reading scores across the nation. Educational research of literacy abilities and reading achievement performance on state assessments have been researched and documented for decades. However, there has been little research on middle school literacy and state…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
Shin, Sun-Young; Lee, Senyung; Lidster, Ryan – Language Testing, 2021
In this study we investigated the potential for a shared-first-language (shared-L1) effect on second language (L2) listening test scores using differential item functioning (DIF) analyses. We did this in order to understand how accented speech may influence performance at the item level, while controlling for key variables including listening…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Language Tests, Native Language, Scores
Buskila, Yaffa; Chen-Levi, Tamar – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
The teaching profession is highly stressful. Stress is a negative phenomenon that develops under conditions of uncontrollable, prolonged and increased pressure. In this study, our goal is (a) to investigate teachers' perception of the sources of stress in school in light of the neoliberal reforms and (b) to compare these sources of stress in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stress Variables, Teacher Attitudes, Neoliberalism
Hecht, Mindy Feldman; Garber, Carol Ewing – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: High volumes of school-based sedentary time may impact academic achievement and executive function negatively. This study evaluated a multimodal classroom program's (POWER) effect on fifth graders' physical activity (PA) and executive function. Methods: Six 5th grade classes (3 = intervention [POW]; 3 = waitlist control [CONT]) in 2…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Physical Activity Level, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Borgen, Nicolai Topstad; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen; Sørlie, Mari-Anne; Ogden, Terje; Frønes, Ivar – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
To address social and behavioral problems in schools, more than 26,000 schools around the world have implemented School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS). Previous studies have focused on the effects of SWPBS on short-term teacher-rated behavior such as office discipline referrals or academic outcomes, but no study has yet investigated…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification, Positive Behavior Supports, Program Effectiveness
Westerveld, Marleen F.; Filiatrault-Veilleux, Pamela; Paynter, Jessica – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2021
Background and aims: The purpose of the current exploratory study was to describe the inferential narrative comprehension skills of young school-age children on the autism spectrum who, as a group, are at high risk of significant and persistent reading comprehension difficulties. Our aim was to investigate whether the anticipated difficulties in…
Descriptors: Inferences, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Narration, Story Telling
Zahariev, Boyan; Yordanov, Ilko – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
The paper presents results from the evaluation of the Teach for Bulgaria (TFB) program, which is part of the Teach for All global network. TFB activities have relevance for a variety of fast-track pathways to the teaching profession. The evaluation is based on a quasi-experimental assessment of teacher performance through student value-added…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Value Added Models
Burnett, Alyson; McCullough, Moira; Williams, Breyon – Mathematica, 2021
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of Uncommon Schools in a turnaround setting. Uncommon was awarded a 2016 grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) to support TurnNJ, a project intended to support Uncommon's whole-school turnaround efforts in Camden and Newark, New Jersey. The study…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Grants, Federal Aid, Models