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Bokhove, Christian; Drijvers, Paul – Computers & Education, 2012
In this article we report on the effects of a digital intervention on the development of algebraic expertise of 17-18 year old students in the Netherlands. The question to be answered was whether the intervention would be effective and what factors influenced the outcome. With notions of formative assessment and symbol sense as guiding theoretical…
Descriptors: Expertise, Feedback (Response), Test Results, Student Attitudes
Powers, Timothy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In many schools, standardized tests are used to determine school effectiveness in instruction. School districts spend money, implement research, and look for new ways to improve on these metrics of academic achievement. Researchers have shown that athletic participation has helped to lead to academic success at a macro level; however less is known…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness, Grade Point Average, Program Effectiveness
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Taylor, Rosemarye T.; Gordon, William R., II – ERS Spectrum, 2011
A high school principal and faculty celebrated after hearing that their students in each of the quartiles had improved in both reading and mathematics on the state accountability assessment. Because of the percent of increases in achievement levels on the test, the Florida Department of Education awarded the school an A for 2011. Shortly…
Descriptors: Test Results, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs
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Caliskan, Muhittin; Sunbul, Ali Murat – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
This study investigated the effects of learning strategies instruction on metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive skills, and achievement. An experimental pre-test/post-test control group design was used in the research. The study was conducted in the 2008-2009 school year on 6th grade students at Orgeneral Tural and Dikmeli Primary Schools located…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Test Results, Primary Education
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Liu, Yan; Wang, Xinheng; Zhao, Liqiang – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2011
In this paper, a video streaming system for education based on a wireless mesh network is proposed. A wireless mesh network is a self-organizing, self-managing and reliable intelligent network, which allows educators to deploy a network quickly. Video streaming plays an important role in this system for multimedia data transmission. This new…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Video Technology, Synchronous Communication
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Nidich, Sanford; Mjasiri, Shujaa; Nidich, Randi; Rainforth, Maxwell; Grant, James; Valosek, Laurent; Chang, Walter; Zigler, Ronald L. – Education, 2011
The middle school level is of particular concern to educators because of poor standardized test performance. This study evaluated change in academic achievement in public middle school students practicing the Transcendental Meditation[R] program compared to controls. A total of 189 students who were below proficiency level at baseline in English…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Program Effectiveness, Measures (Individuals)
Salis, Andrea S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Research on physical activity and cognition is based on the existing theoretical and empirical evidence which indicates that engaging in cardiovascular exercise improves cognitive capabilities, by increasing neural functioning which improves learning (cognitive development). The question this research sought to answer was to determine whether or…
Descriptors: Evidence, College Students, Test Results, Intervention
Wilson, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The study analyzed 2005 posttest data compared to 2008 posttest data to determine student end of school year academic achievement outcomes across three academic levels (above average, average, and below average chemistry potential) and two teacher homework evaluation methods (assigned but not graded and assigned and graded) on teacher prepared…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Test Results, Graduation Requirements, Program Effectiveness
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Yang, Der Ching; Tsai, Yi Fang – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
A quasi-experimental design was adopted to investigate the effect of integrating technology into mathematics teaching on students' number sense and their learning attitudes. Two sixth-grade classes were selected from an elementary school in Taiwan for participation in this study. The control group with 32 students followed their usual mathematics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quasiexperimental Design, Technology Integration, Grade 6
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Galletly, Susan A.; Knight, Bruce Allen; Dekkers, John – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2010
Decision-making regarding intensive instructional support for children with special needs should build from children's instructional needs, and not from diagnostic labelling and criteria for funding eligibility. Cognitive referencing, the use of results on intelligence and language quotients to decide children's academic options and funding…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students
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Juuti, Sini; Littleton, Karen – Psychology of Music, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the identity work of adult instrumental students negotiating their entry to a prestigious music academy and the professional field of music. Ten classical solo-piano students' accounts of their musical histories and experiences were collected through research interviews. The thematic analyses presented…
Descriptors: Musicians, Career Choice, Career Development, Social Environment
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Kettler, Ryan J.; Elliott, Stephen N. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2010
The Brief Academic Competence Evaluation Screening System (BACESS) is a broadband universal screening instrument with three increasingly stringent phases for the identification of children at risk for academic and related behavior difficulties. The development of the BACESS involved two samples of students: K-5 students (n = 827) from the…
Descriptors: Test Results, Intervention, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
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Ramaekers, Stephan; Kremer, Wim; Pilot, Albert; van Beukelen, Peter; van Keulen, Hanno – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
Real-life, complex problems often require that decisions are made despite limited information or insufficient time to explore all relevant aspects. Incorporating authentic uncertainties into an assessment, however, poses problems in establishing results and analysing their methodological qualities. This study aims at developing a test on clinical…
Descriptors: Test Results, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Veterinary Medicine
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Steedle, Jeffrey; Kugelmass, Heather; Nemeth, Alex – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
Many postsecondary institutions currently administer standardized tests of general college outcomes; more than a quarter of Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) member institutions do so. Using standardized tests for accountability purposes has been contentious mainly because these tests do not measure every important…
Descriptors: Test Results, Standardized Tests, Test Validity, Educational Testing
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Zhang, Bo – Journal of Experimental Education, 2008
In this research, the author addresses whether the application of unidimensional item response models provides valid interpretation of test results when administering items sensitive to multiple latent dimensions. Overall, the present study found that unidimensional models are quite robust to the violation of the unidimensionality assumption due…
Descriptors: Test Results, Item Response Theory, Models, Tests
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