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Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1978
Results of a survey using norm referenced tests of reading and mathematics for a large sample of sixth grade students throughout Texas are reported in detail. Statewide results are reported in terms of percentile ranks of average partial and total scores and in the percentage of students in each quarter of the norms. For each of 20 districts in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Behavioral Objectives, Educational Assessment
Download full textAu, Kathryn H. – 1974
This Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP) report describes two studies on the effects of student-teacher interaction on student performance. Study I explored the relationship between three kinds of teacher behaviors (modeling, teacher attention to individual students, and praise-giving to individual students) and the pupil's academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education
Davis, B. Glen; Trimble, C. Scott – 1978
This paper reports on research conducted to determine whether there is a statistically significant difference between the achievement test scores of students who enter first grade as 5-year-olds, and those who enter first grade as 6-year-olds. Ex post facto research was conducted on 3 samples of students (17,000 from 1st grades, 17,500 from 4th…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Age Differences
Deck, Dennis D. – 1980
The feasibility of constructing composite scores which will yield pretest measures having all the properties required by the special regression model is explored as an alternative to the single pretest score usually used in student selection for Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I compensatory education programs. Reading data, including…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Compensatory Education
STEIN, ANNIE; WOLFF, MAX – 1966
KINDERGARTENS IN FOUR PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS (ONE NEGRO, TWO PUERTO RICAN, AND ONE MIXED) IN NEW YORK CITY WERE STUDIED TO DETERMINE WHETHER A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECT HAD RESULTED FROM A SUMMER HEAD START PROGRAM. THE PERFORMANCE OF 179 FORMER HEAD START CHILDREN WAS MEASURED AGAINST 388 OF THEIR NON-HEAD START CLASSMATES. SEVEN…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Behavior Development, Black Education, Early Childhood Education
GORDON, S. F.; THOMPSON, O. E. – 1964
OF 196 COLLEGE FRESHMEN STUDIED IN 1960, 147 WERE INCLUDED IN A RESTUDY TO--(1) DETERMINE IF COMMITMENT TO THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND OTHER STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS ARE RELATED TO CONTINUATION IN AGRICULTURE, CHANGES IN MAJOR, SCHOLASTIC RECORD, OR WITHDRAWAL FROM COLLEGE, (2) DETERMINE PRESENT STATUS OF 1960 FRESHMEN, AND (3) COMPARE STUDENTS…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Achievement Rating, Agriculture, Aspiration
Stenner, A. Jackson; And Others – 1978
Three assumptions underlying the use of norm referenced tests are examined: (1) that expressing treatment effects in a standard score metric permits aggregation of effects across grades; (2) commonly used standardized tests are sufficiently comparable to permit aggregation of results across tests; and (3) the summer loss of achievement observed in…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education
Lazar, Irving; And Others – 1978
This second general technical report of the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies summarizes the findings of current analyses of longitudinal studies of low income children who participated in experimental preschool programs initiated in the 1960s and includes additional data and further analyses of the 1976-77 follow-up study. The pooled data bank…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Achievement Rating, Disadvantaged Youth
Smith, Brandon B. – 1974
An evaluation was conducted on seven career education projects in seven Minnesota school districts. Formative and summative evaluation methods were used to assess teachers' and directors' project implementation and the impact on students' (grades 1 to 9) cognitive achievement. Self evaluation forms were used to obtain information from and to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Career Education, Cognitive Tests
Kowatrakul, Surang; And Others
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…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Achievement Rating, Blacks, Expectation
Auvil, Mary S. – 1972
In evaluating this pilot project, which developed a computer system for assessing student progress and cost effectiveness as related to achievement of performance objectives, interviews were conducted with project participants, including project staff, school administrators, and the auto shop instructors. Project documents were reviewed and a…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Behavioral Objectives, Change Agents, Computer Oriented Programs
Krause, Dorothy Loretta – 1969
The attitudes and opinions of secondary school language arts teachers and administrators on the island of Oahu were surveyed regarding the traditional letter grading system and their uses of it. By administering a questionnaire on the letter grade system and computing the responses, data were obtained on educator attitudes toward the definition…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Administrator Attitudes, Conventional Instruction
Purl, Mabel C.; Curtis, Jonathan – 1970
This study was conducted in the Emerson Elementary School of the Riverside Unified School District, California, which operates multi-grade (combination) and single grade (non-combination) classrooms in the early childhood department and also special programs to improve interracial understanding. The study explores the effects of student…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Anxiety, Black Students, Cross Cultural Studies
Beckett, Jack, Comp. – 1974
During the 1971-72 school year, data was gathered on pre and post test scores for reading and mathematics achievement from 2 groups of mobile migrant children receiving supplementary educational services. The program, a part of the California Plan for the Education of Migrant Children (Title I, Elementary and Secondary Education Act), used 2…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
Greenleaf, Warren T.; Griffin, Gary A. – 1971
This book is a comprehensive staff report addressed to the United Teaching Profession as a basis to improve America's schools. Contents include: Section 1, The setting: a note of urgency; are schools to blame? the traditional role of education; the fruits of success; the new focus of change: humaneness in education; and, barriers to humane school.…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Centralization, Class Organization, Classroom Design
