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North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability Services/Research. – 1997
State Board of Education policy in North Carolina requires students who entered the ninth grade in 1994-95 and later to meet a higher competency standard in reading and mathematics. These students must receive an Achievement Level III or above on the eighth-grade reading and mathematics tests in order to receive a North Carolina high school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Ethnic Groups, Grade 10
Fulton, Lori L. – 2001
This lesson plan for teachers to use with students in junior English (American Literature and pre-college writing) seeks to span the gap between American Revolution-era literature and today's teenagers. The lesson plan advocates using music to span the gap. It presents a rationale, educational objectives, materials needed, and background…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Grade 11, High Schools
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability. – 2002
The purpose of this document is to report the performance of students in the classes of 1998 to 1005 on the more rigorous competency standard in North Carolina as of the 2000-2001 school year. This report contains aggregate and disaggregated state-level results from administrations of the North Carolina competency tests of reading and mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Ethnic Groups, Grade 10
Andrews, Suzanne; Gahris, Cynthia; Reeder, Marcia; Tizzano, Anthony – 2000
This document, which is intended for parents of Ohio students in grade 11, explains the purpose and content of the Career Passport and provides activities through which parents can help their adolescents make a successful transition to life after high school. The document begins with an overview of the Career Passport, which is a five-part…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Planning
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Quiroz, Pamela Anne – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2001
Narratives of Puerto Rican and Mexican American students, written in 8th grade and then 11th grade, describe who they are and illustrate school-sponsored silencing, with student critiques of their educational experience ignored by schools. The narratives help explain the Hispanic student high dropout rate, reasons behind students' academic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Dropout Rate, Educational Environment, Ethnicity
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Miller, Sandra E.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1988
Ethnographic methods were used to assess three learning-disabled and three normal tenth and eleventh grade boys at a school with an unusually low dropout rate. Institutional, classroom, and interpersonal factors behind the schools' student retention ability are described. (TJH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Dropouts, Ethnography
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Dillon, Deborah R. – American Educational Research Journal, 1989
Field notes and interview data were triangulated with secondary data in this ethnographic study to generate a description of social organization. A partial theory of the teacher's actions in working with a predominantly Black group of 17 low-income rural high school students was devised. Teacher effectiveness in this situation is described. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, Ethnography
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Gabella, Marcy Singer – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1994
Examines the divide between high school students' perceptions of historical inquiry and those articulated in current proposals for curricular and instructional reform. Concludes that successful reform requires instruction that shifts the locus of authority from the teacher and text to a shared process of critical inquiry. (CFR)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Harris, Deborah J. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1991
Two data collection designs, counterbalanced and spiraling (Angoff's Design I and Angoff's Design II) were compared using item response theory and equipercentile equating methodology in the vertical equating of 2 mathematics achievement tests using 1,000 eleventh graders and 1,000 twelfth graders. The greater stability of Design II is discussed.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection
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Ormrod, Jeanne Ellis – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2005
As a less expensive "close approximation," case studies are becoming increasingly common in courses in educational psychology, child development, and related disciplines. Typically case studies take the form of narratives depicting realistic classroom situations and problems. A case study does not have to be a narrative, however. Children's and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Psychology, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Strategies
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Lewis, Bradford F.; Connell, Shelley – Negro Educational Review, The, 2005
Extant literature on the underrepresentation of African Americans in science-related careers has identified numerous factors that correlate with students' career considerations. While these correlations provide substantial insight, the tendency to infer cause is problematic. This position paper draws on data from an exploratory study to illustrate…
Descriptors: African American Students, Course Selection (Students), Enrollment, Advanced Courses
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Clachar, Arlene – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2006
The goal of the study was to compare the literacy challenges faced by children who speak nonstandard dialects of English and for whom Standard English is a "second dialect" with challenges faced by children for whom Standard English is a "second language." The study focused on the extent to which discourse patterns in the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Programs
Torres-Gavilanes, Janet – 1993
A project investigating the effects of peer tutoring on students' academic achievement focused on use of tutoring with underachieving, limited-English-speaking 11th- and 12th-graders. The method was designed to use materials readily available and require minimal expenditure of teacher time and resources. Students (n=18) voluntarily attended…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Classroom Techniques
Byrne, Barbara M. – 1994
This study represents the first to empirically validate the structure of social self-concept (SC) as proposed by the Shavelson model. For each of three age groups--preadolescents (252 3rd graders), early adolescents (290 7th graders), and late adolescents (335 11th graders)--analyses of covariance structures were used to test: (1) that social SC…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Analysis of Covariance, Child Development
Vigilante, David – 1992
This unit is one of a series that presents specific moments in history from which students focus on the meanings of landmark events. By studying a crucial turning-point in history, students become aware that choices had to be made by real human beings, that those decisions were the result of specific factors, and that they set in motion a series…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Democracy, Government (Administrative Body)
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