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Lynch, Christopher D. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study examined the relationship between the 2013 New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) Language Arts and Mathematics scores and school level data related to family human capital and community social capital found in the extant literature to influence student achievement on high-stakes standardized assessments. School level data…
Descriptors: Prediction, Standardized Tests, Mathematics Achievement, High School Students
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Forbes, Cory; Lange, Kim; Möller, Kornelia; Biggers, Mandy; Laux, Mira; Zangori, Laura – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
To help explain the differences in students' performance on internationally administered science assessments, cross-national, video-based observational studies have been advocated, but none have yet been conducted at the elementary level for science. The USA and Germany are two countries with large formal education systems whose students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Video Technology, Elementary School Science
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Bush, Jonathan, Ed.; Zuidema, Leah, Ed. – English Journal, 2012
In professional writing, usability testing investigates how well users can find, understand, and use a document (Lannon). Usability testing involves gathering feedback from users, analyzing how successfully they used the document, and drawing on the test results to change or refine the design. From the authors' experiences as writers and teachers,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Usability, Test Results, Audience Analysis
Andrews, Rodney J.; Jargowsky, Paul; Kuhne, Kristin – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
There has been a resurgence in research that investigates the efficacy of early investments as a means of reducing gaps in academic performance. However, the strongest evidence for these effects comes from experimental evaluations of small, highly enriched programs. We add to this literature by assessing the extent to which a large-scale public…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Reading Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Achievement Tests
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Lane, Suzanne – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2012
Considering consequences in the evaluation of validity is not new although it is still debated by Paul E. Newton and others. The argument-based approach to validity entails an interpretative argument that explicitly identifies the proposed interpretations and uses of test scores and a validity argument that provides a structure for evaluating the…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Accountability, Validity, Inferences
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Maglajlic, Seid; Helic, Denis – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2012
and Purpose: The purpose of this research is to shed light on the impact of implicit social networks to the learning outcome of e-learning participants in an industrial setting. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents a theoretical framework that allows the authors to measure correlation coefficients between the different affiliations that…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Industry, Outcomes of Education, Electronic Learning
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Macqueen, Suzanne – Australian Educational Researcher, 2012
Grouping students by academic achievement level has been practised in a wide variety of forms and contexts for over a century. Despite a general consensus in the research that between-class achievement grouping provides no overall benefit for students, the practice has persisted in various guises. Between-class achievement grouping is common in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Elementary Schools
Looby, Karen – Online Submission, 2011
The ACT is a national college admissions examination. ACT, Inc. provides an annual summary of student performance at the end of each academic year. AISD students' results from that annual summary are described in this brief report.
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Test Results, Scores, Mathematics Achievement
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Delcenserie, Audrey; Genesee, Fred; Gauthier, Karine – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
We assessed the language, cognitive, and socioemotional abilities of 27 internationally adopted children from China, adopted by French-speaking parents, 12 of whom had been assessed previously by Gauthier and Genesee. The children were on average 7 years, 10 months old and were matched to nonadopted monolingual French-speaking children on age,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Adoption, Foreign Countries, Speech Communication
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Fischer, Franziska T.; Schult, Johannes; Hell, Benedikt – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
This is the first meta-analysis that investigates the differential prediction of undergraduate and graduate college admission tests for women and men. Findings on 130 independent samples representing 493,048 students are summarized. The underprediction of women's academic performance (d = 0.14) and the overprediction of men's academic performance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Females, College Entrance Examinations, College Admission
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Budimac, Zoran; Putnik, Zoran; Ivanovic, Mirjana; Bothe, Klaus; Zdravkova, Katerina; Jakimovski, Boro – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
A joint course, created as a result of a project under the auspices of the "Stability Pact of South-Eastern Europe" and DAAD, has been conducted in several Balkan countries: in Novi Sad, Serbia, for the last six years in several different forms, in Skopje, FYR of Macedonia, for two years, for several types of students, and in Tirana,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Dembo, Richard; Briones-Robinson, Rhissa; Ungaro, Rocio Aracelis; Gulledge, Laura M.; Karas, Lora M.; Winters, Ken C.; Belenko, Steven; Greenbaum, Paul E. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2012
Intervention Project. Results identified two classes of youths: Class 1(n=9) - youths with low levels of delinquency, mental health and substance abuse issues; and Class 2(n=37) - youths with high levels of these problems. Comparison of these two classes on their urine analysis test results and parent/guardian reports of traumatic events found…
Descriptors: Test Results, Substance Abuse, Emotional Problems, Behavior Disorders
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Kvist, Ann Valentin – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to assess the effect of vocational training on employability for immigrant groups. Design/methodology/approach: Cognitive test results were computed as factor scores on broad ability variables, and group means were calculated. The effects of cognitive factors and training on employment were investigated in a series of…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Cognitive Tests, Outcomes of Education, Immigrants
Principal Leadership, 2012
This article features Lafayette Academy Charter School in New Orleans, Louisiana, which was recognized by the state board of education as a "center of excellence" in 2010, and given an automatic renewal of its charter--the only school in the state to receive this honor. The school has demonstrated impressive progress: the 2007 test…
Descriptors: Health Services, Charter Schools, School Choice, Public Agencies
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Tsai, Wan-Hsiu Sunny; Li, Cong – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2012
This study examined the moderating effects of acculturation modes (assimilated, integrated, and separated) on Hispanic consumers' responses to three advertising targeting strategies (Caucasian targeted, bicultural, and Hispanic targeted). The hypotheses were empirically tested in a 3 x 3 factorial experiment with 155 self-identified Hispanic adult…
Descriptors: Advertising, Test Results, Acculturation, Adolescents
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