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Nora Beerline – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study compared the effects of academic motivation on traditional and online community college students. Online enrollment continues to increase, especially in public colleges and universities. Academic success in online courses, however, continues to lag behind academic success in face-to-face courses, especially for community college…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Learning Motivation, Student Attitudes, Electronic Learning
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Julie Ayton; Daniel Belcher; Gerasim Hristov; Sylvia Snijders – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
Amid growing concerns about social mobility in Britain's higher education system, our study delves into universities' role in addressing the social gap within the financial and professional services sectors. The social reproduction theory underscores how upper-class students often benefit from greater exposure to dominant cultural and educational…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Business Schools, Social Mobility, Universities
Kyna Monic Eberhardt – ProQuest LLC, 2025
A gap in career and technical education (CTE) skills can negatively influence outcomes for students who plan to enter the workforce or college following high school graduation. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perceptions of principals, counselors, teachers, and business leaders from different industries, about the…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Urban Schools, School Districts, Achievement Gap
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Zhao, Kai – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
Rural students' academic performance is of critical importance for college success and later life outcomes. Prior literature on the rural-urban gap in academic performance has produced mixed results. Drawing on data from students at a highly selective university in Beijing, this study compares the differences in academic performance between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Urban Differences, Academic Achievement
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Faulconer, Emily; Griffith, John; Gruss, Amy – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
High quality feedback on assessments and deliverables is vital to student success. This pilot study sought to understand the impact of combining positive and performance-gap feedback in an immediate feedback scenario where students were provided multiple attempts to complete an assignment. 176 online undergraduate students were surveyed after…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Undergraduate Students, Inorganic Chemistry, Positive Attitudes
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Young, Jamaal; Young, Jemimah – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2022
Our purpose is to proffer QuantCrit methodological approaches to interrogate notions of statistical practice by convention. We present two approaches to meta-analysis and mean effect size calculations for student achievement. The first approach is the conventional approach which applies between-group differences to calculate effect sizes…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Meta Analysis
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Munro, Caitlin – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2022
Regions with a lengthy summer break can create negative outcomes for learners; this problem is referred to as summer learning loss, summer learning gap, or summer slide. Summer learning loss is loss of academic knowledge and skill that accumulates over the break from school. When students return to school after the summer break, teachers need to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Gap, Summer Programs, School Schedules
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Gul, Nosheen; Harris, Lindsay N.; LaRouech, Alicia; Strohm, Gracie – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
US students who are blind or have visual impairments do not read at the level of a third-grader with typical sight until, on average, halfway through the seventh grade. As a first step toward narrowing that gap, we investigated levels of linguistic awareness among teachers of students who are blind or visually impaired (TSBVIs) because research…
Descriptors: Blindness, Visual Impairments, Reading Achievement, Students with Disabilities
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Miller-Cotto, Dana; Schunn, Christian – Journal of Experimental Education, 2022
Large lecture classes in higher education continue to be a context in which large performance differences between underrepresented minorities and their White and Asian peers are observed. In the current study, we sought to develop a package of interventions that may reduce this gap in a multi-section Micro Economics course. The focus of this…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation, Intervention, Economics Education
Julius, Jenna; Ghosh, Anusha – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2022
This research examines the impact of recent and anticipated changes in free school meal eligibility on state-funded mainstream schools in England. In particular, our research focuses on the extent to which both the pandemic and transitional arrangements introduced to smooth the roll out of Universal Credit are affecting free school meal…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Lunch Programs
Center for MH in Schools and Student/Learning Supports at UCLA, 2022
This report discusses the necessity of expanding school improvement policy and practice in order to meet the growing challenges related to reducing the achievement and opportunity gaps. Specifically, it highlights that student/learning supports are marginalized in current policy and that addressing the matter requires moving from a two to a three…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Achievement Gap, Educational Opportunities
Goldhaber, Dan; Jin, Zeyu; Startz, Richard – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
We present new estimates of the importance of teachers in early grades for later grade outcomes, but unlike the existing literature that examines teacher "fade-out," we directly compare the contribution of early-grade teachers to later year outcomes against the contributions of later year teachers to the same later year outcomes. Where…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Influence, Grade 4
Adelman, Howard; Taylor, Linda – Center for MH in Schools and Student/Learning Supports at UCLA, 2022
The current trend in improving student/learning supports involves tinkering in ways that make changes that don't make a dent in reducing the opportunity and achievement gaps. Schools need a unified, comprehensive, and equitable system of student/learning supports that embeds a focus on a full range of mental health and psychosocial and educational…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Educational Change, Achievement Gap, Equal Education
Ohio Department of Education, 2022
The last several years have been unpredictable for students, families, teachers and schools. During this time, Ohio's education community has responded by working diligently to identify and address the unique needs of their communities while ensuring their students continue to receive a quality education. Data on the 2021-2022 Ohio School Report…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Literacy Education, Attendance
Jason Ray David Rarick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation examines relations between education-related self-beliefs and socioeconomic (SES)-based disparities in education. SES academic achievement gaps are a serious problem in the United States; however, they are not fully accounted for by objective family resources alone. I build from the premise that there is a subjective,…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Achievement Gap, Self Concept, Mathematics Achievement
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