The purpose of this study was to obtain empirical evidence as to whether the observed achievement gap between low and high socio-economic-status (SES) children remains unchanged, increases or decreases with increasing age, and to determine the consistency of statistical methods for measuring growth. Four methods of measuring change in achievement…

When the identities of youth of color have been studied (especially African Americans), several problematic practices have been employed. Racially, African American youth have been compared to a "standard" of White American youth. From the perspective of social class, poor African American youth have been compared to the…

Demonstrates how information in the cumulative school file is a rich resource for understanding the patterns of achievement and underachievement among gifted students. High and moderative achievers and moderate and extreme underachievers (n=153) were compared on information found in the school file. Results show differences between achievers and…

The purposes of this study were: (1) to develop measures of the need for achievement in 4-5-year-old children, and (2) to discover the psychosocial origins of need for achievement. The hypotheses regarding the second purpose were that middle and lower socioeconomic status (SES) mothers of children characterized by high need for achievement would…

The objective of this report, the third in a series, is to compare and assess the citizenship achievement of four age groups by educational level of the parent, color of the respondent, and type of community. Previous citizenship assessment reports are described in ED 049 111, ED 049 112, ED 049 113, and SO 002 917. Citizenship exercises…

School effectiveness indices (SEIs), based on regressing test performance onto earlier test performance and a socioeconomic status measure, were obtained for eight subject-grade combinations from 485 South Carolina elementary schools. The analysis involved school means based on longitudinally matched student data. Reading and mathematics…

The sixth report of the Michigan Educational Assessment Program contains eight educational distribution profiles. Schools and districts were classified into upper, middle, and lower thirds on the basis of the average scores (in grades 4 and 7) in composite achievement and socioeconomic status, and their scores on all assessment measures were…