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Marilyn Barnes-Wiggins – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Previous research has suggested that African American children are more equipped to close the achievement gap when enrolled in mainstream schools than in culturally familiar schools. However, this study seeks to determine if there are benefits to attending a culturally familiar school. This study explored test score performance difference of 393…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Scores, Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students
Shunza Revonn Williams-Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This quantitative correlational non-experimental study examined the predictable relationship between the ACCESS for English Language Learners scale score and the Georgia Milestones English Language Arts (GMAS-ELA) standardized assessment for reclassified fifth-grade English language learners during the 2018-2019 school year. The problem addressed…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Grade 5
Petria J. Boutin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Large-scale assessments, a prominent part of education in the United States, are the accountability measures used to determine policies, programs, and the allocation of resources. The U.S. school population continues to have an increasing number of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students, indicating the need to reevaluate the…
Descriptors: Measurement, Student Evaluation, Student Diversity, Culture Fair Tests
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Morgan Rosendahl; Brian Gill; Jennifer E. Starling – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2024
The Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 requires states to use a variety of indicators, including standardized tests and attendance records, to designate schools for support and improvement based on schoolwide performance and the performance of groups of students within schools. Schoolwide and group-level performance indicators are also…
Descriptors: Institutional Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Bayesian Statistics, Test Reliability
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Carol A. Mullen; Robert J. Nitowski – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2024
Dropout is a global crisis and an affliction in the United States. This study analyzes graduation rates based on prior academic achievement, attendance, and behavior at an urban American high school in Virginia over 4 years to identify who is (not) graduating and why. Using a correlational, nonexperimental design, four cohorts of graduates were…
Descriptors: Dropouts, High School Students, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement
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Charles Hulme; Joshua McGrane; Mihaela Duta; Gillian West; Denise Cripps; Abhishek Dasgupta; Sarah Hearne; Rachel Gardner; Margaret Snowling – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: Oral language skills provide a critical foundation for formal education and especially for the development of children's literacy (reading and spelling) skills. It is therefore important for teachers to be able to assess children's language skills, especially if they are concerned about their learning. We report the development and…
Descriptors: Automation, Language Tests, Standardized Tests, Test Construction
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Rose Mutuota – South African Journal of Education, 2024
Tensions exist between providing inclusive education in mainstream classrooms and market-driven neoliberal values such as academic success and school ranking. These values impinge on teachers' responsibilities to teach students with disabilities. Schools are ranked based on students' performance in national examinations and schools sometimes use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Inclusion
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Nele Claes; Annique Smeding; Arnaud Carré; Nicolas Sommet – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
We conducted three preregistered studies using the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data to provide a worldwide estimation of the standardized test gap between students from lower and higher social classes. We investigated: (a) the degree to which academic anxiety…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Preeya P. Mbekeani; Daniel Koretz – AERA Open, 2024
Validity studies of college admissions tests have found that, on average, students who are Black or Hispanic earn lower freshman grade-point averages (FGPAs) than predicted by these test scores. This differential prediction is used as a measure of bias. These studies, however, conflate student and school characteristics. The differential…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Grade Point Average, Racial Differences
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Purwanto; Hidayah, Niswatul; Wagistina, Satti – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2023
Learning geography in Indonesia philosophically aims to develop spatial literacy. Students must improve spatial literacy to form reasoning skills and apply spatial concepts in real life. Applying Gersmehl's spatial learning can improve students' spatial literacy through syntax arranged based on spatial aspects. The use of google earth helps…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Natural Disasters, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Maloney, Patricia; Austin, Duke W.; Verma, SaunJuhi – Urban Education, 2023
Existing studies evaluate zero tolerance policies and the school-to-prison pipeline. Additional research identifies the role of criminal justice systems in deporting immigrants. Our work bridges these two literatures by discussing how immigrant students navigate the criminal justice system within schools. Using interviews with immigrant students,…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Immigrants, Crime, High School Students
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Rodriguez, Vanessa; Reid, David B.; Gutmore, Daniel; Alfonso, Erick – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2023
Physical activity can meaningfully influence educational outcomes. However, physical activity among youth remains insufficient (World Health Organization, 2018).Youth who are not physically active are more likely to encounter chronic health issues including obesity, depression, and anxiety (Bartelink et al., 2019, Bélair et al., 2018, Krebs,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Physical Education, Educational Policy, Physical Activity Level
Maddox, Bryan – OECD Publishing, 2023
The digital transition in educational testing has introduced many new opportunities for technology to enhance large-scale assessments. These include the potential to collect and use log data on test-taker response processes routinely, and on a large scale. Process data has long been recognised as a valuable source of validation evidence in…
Descriptors: Measurement, Inferences, Test Reliability, Computer Assisted Testing
Ginsberg, Rick; Zhao, Yong – Teachers College Press, 2023
In the 1950s and 1960s, students practiced ducking under their desks in case of an atomic bomb attack. We know that this was silly and provided no protection and many school practices that are popular today are equally silly. This book explores a wide range of what the authors label "duck and cover" policies--ideas that may have started…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Program Effectiveness, Educational Strategies
Nusaybah Muhammad – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examines and utilizes Critical Race Theory to understand how pedagogical training fails to train educators in recognizing and countering racism in standardized testing and General Equivalency Diploma (GED) preparatory courses. Black students continue to have the lowest pass rates in GED test performance based on a study of race and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, African American Students, High School Equivalency Programs, Racism
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