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Winters, Marcus A. – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2020
This report estimates the effect of enrolling in a charter school on student standardized test scores in Newark, New Jersey. The results indicate that attending a Newark charter school that participated in the city's common enrollment system leads to large improvements in math and reading scores, and the effect is especially large for students who…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Scores, Standardized Tests
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Han, Eunice S. – Journal of Education Finance, 2021
The quality of the teaching force in our public schools has received great attention as one of the approaches to improve student performance, as there exists ample evidence that teacher quality matters for student achievement (see McCaffrey et al., 2004 for a review on this literature). Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain (2005) find large differences…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), Academic Achievement, Educational Finance
Valerie Ann Brescia – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In the need to improve high stakes standardized test scores for all students, many schools began to implement research-based instructional techniques, such as Marzano's Instructional Elements and Strategies. This student will investigate the implementation of Marzano's Instructional Elements on the Star Reading Assessment Scores of students at a…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Scores
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Anahid S. Modrek; Tania Lombrozo – Cognitive Science, 2024
How does the act of explaining influence learning? Prior work has studied effects of explaining through a predominantly proximal lens, measuring short-term outcomes or manipulations within lab settings. Here, we ask whether the benefits of explaining extend to academic performance over time. Specifically, does the quality and frequency of student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Processes, Cognitive Processes, Prediction
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Taylor, Jacob-Paul; Zuber, Malgorzata; Shoup, David – Youth & Society, 2023
This research strives to enrich criminological and educational literature by providing a better understanding of relationships among school performance and achievement, attendance, and demographic information based upon the number of exclusionary disciplinary actions within public high schools. Using data on 409 traditional high schools from the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Academic Achievement, School Demography, School Effectiveness
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Zhu, Marissa M.; Alberts, Kimberly M.; Bork, William N.; Wong, David – Intercultural Education, 2023
This mixed-methods study examines how 15 preservice teachers' self-regulated learning (SRL) skills relate to their ICC development in a teacher education course. ICC was assessed using a standardised exam and an open-ended cultural dilemma. Participants' SRL was assessed along 7 dimensions: planning, goal orientation, task strategies,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cultural Awareness, Teacher Education Programs, Standardized Tests
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Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Jin, Zeyu; Theobald, Roddy – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
We investigate the predictive validity of teacher licensure tests using data from the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL). MTEL scores predict teachers' in-service performance ratings and contributions to student test scores (i.e., value added). We then explore whether these relationships vary for teacher candidates of color.…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Teacher Competency Testing, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Predictive Validity
Ryan T. Cox – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research studies have suggested that students who participate in daily physical activity and who are more physically fit may have improved academic achievement scores. However, pressures on school districts to improve students' academic achievement in core course areas such as math, science, and English have put less emphasis on courses such as…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Physical Education, Physical Activity Level, Grade 9
Neba Afanwi Nfonsang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study used a propensity score approach to estimate treatment effects in a multilevel setting. The propensity score approach involves the estimation of propensity scores for covariate balancing and the estimation of treatment effects. This study aimed at understanding how propensity scores estimated through a simple logistic regression compare…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Scores, High School Students, Grade 10
April Hunter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to find a way to increase low literacy skills for 5th- grade students in a charter school. The research explored the relationship between the attitudes, behaviors, standardized test scores, and perceptions related to student reading; parents' attitudes and perceptions related to their student's reading; and teachers'…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Attitudes, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Angelo, Catarina; Reis, Ana Balcão – Education Economics, 2021
This paper analyzes the impact of grading practices on the gender gap in student achievement. We examine the gender difference in the difference between teacher grading and scores on national exams to test whether there are gender differences associated with different grading systems. We use data on 21 subjects across humanities and sciences for…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Achievement Gap, Grading, Student Evaluation
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Happ, Roland; Kato, Maki; Rüter, Ines – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2021
University lecturers and coordinators of business and economics courses around the world are faced with the challenge that beginning students in these courses have heterogeneous entry conditions in terms of personal characteristics. This article focuses on the economic knowledge of German and Japanese beginning students in a business and economics…
Descriptors: Economics, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Economics Education
Kristen Marie Winter – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study is to examine impacts of non-cognitive measures in the college admissions process on the retention of academically at-risk student populations. Increasing access to higher education is of benefit to individual and society as a whole. Traditional college admissions practices use standardized testing and GPA, which have…
Descriptors: College Students, Admission Criteria, Academic Standards, Grade Point Average
Pia Lapiki Petersen Givens – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This research examined if or to what extent there was a relationship between maternal home-based involvement, based on the Family Involvement Questionnaire-Elementary from a mother's perspective, and fifth and sixth-grade students' reading and mathematical achievement scores as measured by STAR reading and math in the state of California. The…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mothers, Family Involvement, Grade 5
Emily Tucker – ProQuest LLC, 2021
To better understand Tennessee's new standardized science assessments, this quantitative study utilized a nonexperimental, descriptive-comparative design to compare the readability of the long-used science TCAP assessment with the newly created science TNReady assessment in grades three, four, and five. As new standards in the state boast higher…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Standardized Tests, Achievement Tests, Readability
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