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Education Week, 2021
As students and educators head back for another pandemic-disrupted school year, the third and final edition of Quality Counts 2021 provides a broad perspective on the nation's K-12 system, with summative grades and scores for the U.S. and each state on a range of academic, financial, and socioeconomic indicators that underlie student achievement…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education
Jonathon Glen Guthrie – ProQuest LLC, 2020
As college-bound high school seniors know, the ACT examination is possibly the single most important assessment students take during their academic careers. ACT scores can determine college entrance, scholarship dollars, and whether students will be placed in remedial courses. Parents pay large sums of money to prepare their children for this…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High School Students, Test Preparation, Scores
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
Blazer, Christie; Gonzalez Hernandez, Vanessa – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2018
This Research Brief summarizes the performance of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) students participating in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. The IB program was offered at six M-DCPS high schools in 2017-2018. Over 3,000 examinations were taken by M-DCPS students in 27 subject areas in 2017-2018. The number of IB examinations…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Public Schools, High School Students, Racial Differences
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
Tirado, Andrea – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2020
This research brief summarizes the performance of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) students participating in the Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) Program. Cambridge courses and assessments were offered at 15 MDCPS high schools in 2019-2020. Over 13,100 assessments were completed by M-DCPS students in 31…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High School Students, Advanced Placement Programs, Achievement Tests
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
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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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LeBeau, Brandon; Assouline, Susan G.; Lupkowski-Shoplik, Ann; Mahatmya, Duhita – Roeper Review, 2020
Although recognized as a highly effective subject-acceleration intervention, accessibility of Advanced Placement (AP) coursework is not equally available to all students. This lack of access may contribute to documented disparities in AP participation between rural schools and their urban and suburban counterparts. The current study explores the…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Acceleration (Education), Access to Education, Equal Education
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Burkholder, Eric W. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Previously, we had reported on the relationship between AP physics experience and exam scores, and student scores on the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation and in an introductory calculus-based mechanics course [E. W. Burkholder and C. E. Wieman, Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. 15, 020117 (2019)]. Two limitations to our previous work were that we…
Descriptors: Physics, Advanced Placement, Introductory Courses, Science Instruction
Tirado, Andrea – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2019
This Research Brief summarizes the performance of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) students participating in the Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) Program. Cambridge courses and examinations were offered at 14 MDCPS high schools in 2018-2019. Over 11,800 examinations were taken by M-DCPS students in 32…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High School Students, Advanced Placement Programs, Achievement Tests
Brian Garcia; Chester Holland; Akisha Osei Sarfo; Ray Hart – Council of the Great City Schools, 2023
Over the years, the nation's large urban school districts have consistently learned from the progress of their peer districts across the country. Great City School districts that have embraced the challenge of educating America's urban children have recognized the value of benchmarking their performance and growth against the progress of others.…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Academic Achievement, Enrollment, Kindergarten
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Fischer, Christian; Foster, Brandon; McCoy, Ayana; Lawrenz, Frances; Dede, Chris; Eisenkraft, Arthur; Fishman, Barry J.; Frumin, Kim; Levy, Abigail Jurist – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background: Many students enter into postsecondary education without the preparation to face the demands of postsecondary coursework in science. Increasingly, policymakers and educational researchers are responding to calls for reforming secondary education to provide more opportunity for all students to receive high-quality education and to…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Science Tests, Science Achievement, Secondary School Science
Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
This paper considers an unavoidable feature of the school environment, class rank. What are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank, conditional on achievement and classroom fixed effects,…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Elementary School Students, Public Schools, Academic Achievement
Aoki, Shu – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of critical thinking in International Baccalaureate (IB) classes in Japan. This study helped to determine the effects of using critical thinking methods in IB classes to determine to what extent critical thinking methods affect students' critical thinking skills, Japanese language skills,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students
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