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Jeffrey Steven Chenier – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Federal and state initiatives (No Child Left Behind, 2001) require schools and districts to set high standards for student growth and achievement. Currently, student growth and progress are measured in Louisiana via statewide achievement tests. In 4th and 8th grades these assessments are considered to be 'high-stakes', as promotion and retention…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Data Use, Academic Achievement
Deacon, S. Helene; Campbell, Emily; Tamminga, Meredith; Kirby, John – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
This study examined morphological processing of inflected and derived words by children in Grades 4, 6, and 8. Participants were shown root forms and inflected, derived, and orthographic control items (e.g., "harm", "harmed", "harmful", or "harmony"), followed by a fragment completion task (e.g., completing "h a_ _"). Participants were equally…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Morphology (Languages), Grade 4, Grade 6
Mills, Jonathan N.; Wolf, Patrick J. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2016
The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) is a statewide initiative offering publicly-funded vouchers to enroll in local private schools to students in low-performing schools with family income no greater than 250 percent of the poverty line. Initially established in 2008 as a pilot program in New Orleans, the LSP was expanded statewide in 2012.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Vouchers, Randomized Controlled Trials, Scholarships
Huang, Min-Hsiung – Comparative Education Review, 2013
As more primary and secondary students worldwide seek after-school tutoring in academic subjects, concerns are being raised about whether after-school tutoring can raise average test scores without widening the variability in student performance, and whether students of certain ability levels may benefit more than others from after-school…
Descriptors: After School Education, Tutoring, Student Participation, Mathematics Education
Brletich, Anne M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the era of No Child Left Behind (ED, 2001), public school administrators have dedicated resources to ensuring all students reach proficiency in basic skills on the state mandated assessments. The focus on reaching proficiency on NCLB assessments is less of a concern for gifted students who exceed grade level expectations and have the potential…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Federal Legislation, Intelligence Tests, Academic Achievement
Chudowsky, Naomi; Chudowsky, Victor – Center on Education Policy, 2011
Over the past few decades, concerns have escalated about the quality of education in the U.S. for students in the middle grades. Children entering adolescence have unique educational, social, and emotional needs. How effectively the nation is educating these students has long been a topic of research and debate. This study by the Center on…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Accountability, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Phelan, Julia; Vendlinski, Terry; Choi, Kilchan; Dai, Yunyun; Herman, Joan; Baker, Eva L. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2011
The POWERSOURCE[c] intervention is intended as a generalizable and powerful formative assessment strategy that can be integrated with any mathematics curriculum. POWERSOURCE[c] includes both a system of learning-based assessments and an infrastructure to support teachers' use of those assessments to improve student learning. The core undertaking…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Intervention, Formative Evaluation, Mathematics Curriculum
Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna; Rubenstein, Ross; Zabel, Jeffrey – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2011
Although rearranging school organizational features is a popular school reform, little research exists to inform policymakers about how grade spans affect achievement. This article examines how grade spans and the school transitions that students make between fourth and eighth grade shape student performance in eighth grade. The authors estimate…
Descriptors: School Organization, Educational Change, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Grade 8
Ghent, Cynthia; Trauth-Nare, Amy; Dell, Katie; Haines, Sarah – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2014
This study investigates the influence of Green School designation on students' achievement in state-mandated standardized tests. Data were gathered 3 years pre- and post-Green schools designation, from test pass rates in reading and mathematics for Grade 5 and Grade 8 students, and from mathematics, English language arts, and biology scores for…
Descriptors: State Programs, Standardized Tests, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Kypraios, Nikolaos; Papageorgiou, George; Stamovlasis, Dimitrios – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2014
In this study, students' understanding of chemical changes was investigated in relation to four individual differences, related to logical thinking, field dependence/independence, convergence and divergence thinking. The study took place in Greece with the participation of students (n = 374) from three grades (8th, 10th and 12th grades) of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Grade 8, Grade 10
Butler, Yuko Goto – Research Papers in Education, 2014
As English has increasingly become associated with social and economic power in the context of globalisation, there has been a growing concern regarding achievement gaps in English that appear to be correlated to learners' socio-economic status (SES). The present study aims to examine how parents' SES and their behaviours and beliefs about English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, English, English (Second Language)
Dougherty, Chrys; Hiserote, Linda; Shaw, Teresa – ACT, Inc., 2014
This report focuses on the extent to which students who are academically far off track in fourth or eighth grade in Arkansas catch up by eighth or eleventh and twelfth grades. We studied two recent cohorts of Arkansas students whose eighth-grade ACT Explore® scores were more than one standard deviation below the ACT Explore Benchmark scores…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Cohort Analysis, Scores
Carolan, Tracy – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
PISA 2012 results indicate that school systems that group students based on ability levels tend to have lower performance than those that do not divide students by ability. One way some in the United States have sought to increase equity of opportunity is to mandate enrollment of students in college-preparatory mathematics, i.e., Algebra 1 in…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Required Courses, College Preparation, College Mathematics
Jacobs, Rhonda Suzanne – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research concerning technology-based reading intervention is limited and additional studies are needed in this area of study. This study examined the individual intervention programs (Read 180 and Thinking Reader) for diverse 6th, 7th, and 8th graders in order to determine the gains per grade level on state standardized reading tests. This study…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Standardized Tests, Constructivism (Learning)
Principal Leadership, 2012
No student has been retained at West Carter Middle School in Olive Hill, Kentucky, in the last five years. Staff members proudly point to that fact as evidence that their decision to not permit zeros is working. That's a bit misleading, because coupled with the no-zero policy were a number of programmatic initiatives and supports that allowed all…
Descriptors: State Standards, Grade 6, Middle Schools, Grade 7