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Lindsey Weeden – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study was used to investigate the differences in asynchronous, bisynchronous, and hybrid learning environments in student achievement in online schools. Utilizing quantitative data analysis, the research examines student growth data, chronic absenteeism, graduation rates, and ACT scores across these modalities. The research holds significant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Electronic Learning, Asynchronous Communication, Synchronous Communication
Jason Michael Godfrey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In US-based postsecondary education, first-year students commonly have their compositional ability consequentially assessed on the basis of standardized tests. As a result, students who score above certain thresholds on ACT, SAT, or AP exams often are placed into honors or remedial courses; receive credit remissions; and/or test out of general…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Postsecondary Education, Standardized Tests, College Entrance Examinations
Matthew A. Bowser – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if there was a significant relationship between school-wide academic outcomes and the instructional modalities utilized by public schools during the 2019-2022 school years. This study also determined if there was a significant difference in assessment scores earned by public school students…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Public Schools, Academic Achievement
Potter, Darek W. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This descriptive causal-comparative study examined differences between ACT mathematics subtest scores for students taught using an integrated mathematics curriculum (Integrated Math 1-2-3) and students taught using a traditional mathematics curriculum (Algebra 1-Geometry-Algebra 2). The study also controlled for gender and aptitude. The results of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Teaching Methods, Conventional Instruction, Algebra
Schafer, Jessica M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study is to look at the impact in terms of timing of language-based learning differences and how this has impacted students' overall comprehension scores on SAT or ACT and final English grade. Participants were male alumni of a private college preparatory school with a diagnosed language-based learning difference who were a…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Grades (Scholastic), College Entrance Examinations, Clinical Diagnosis
Eric Don Neely – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP) English II and Algebra I scores correlate with American College Testing (ACT) English and Mathematics scores, to examine the methods teachers use to prepare students for the MAAP test, and to determine whether these methods enhance…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Entrance Examinations, Standardized Tests, State Standards
Loden, Lisa Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Remedial mathematics has been considered the roadblock to obtaining a college degree by students and educators for years. The purpose of this research is to determine the optimal time and delivery method of the three presented (fully module, module with a traditional lecture component, and fully on-line) for teaching remedial mathematics. This is…
Descriptors: Remedial Mathematics, Conventional Instruction, Online Courses, Teaching Methods
Perpetua Lynne Nielsen – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This two-article dissertation examined the impact of enhanced educational dialogue, in terms of periodic email feedback on course progress and an invitation to participate in a discussion board, on student achievement and course satisfaction in an introductory statistics course offered in an independent study setting. Participants in the study…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses, Online Courses
Arbini, Corey – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study examined the impact of high school students' graphing calculator usage on their math achievement over time. Achievement growth was measured using nationally-recognized standardized test scores from EXPLORE, PLAN, and ACT. Two groups of students were used in this study; one group had graphing calculators integrated beginning in…
Descriptors: Graphing Calculators, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Standardized Tests
Kogo-Masila, Chemisi Asha – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This mixed-methods study approach investigated the impact of standardized tests on student achievement from the STEM program and the traditional program in a suburban high school. Qualitative data were collected from interviews, focus groups, and questionnaires to get perceptual data from teachers. Quantitative data were collected from different…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, STEM Education, Conventional Instruction
Reese, Mary Celeste – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Technology has changed almost every aspect of our daily lives. It is not surprising then that technology has made its way into the classroom. More and more educators are utilizing technological resources in creative ways with the intent to enhance learning, including using virtual laboratories in the sciences in place of the…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Conventional Instruction
Boyer, Grant Coday – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Large achievement gaps have been found in ACT scores between high schools throughout the same state and in comparisons between states. In Missouri, four public high schools have consistently scored four points higher than the Missouri average for years 2007-2011. States, such as Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa, have shown consistent above average…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, College Entrance Examinations
Mulkerrin, Elizabeth A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of an 11th-grade and 12th-grade zoo-based academic high school experiential science program compared to a same school-district school-based academic high school experiential science program on students' pretest and posttest science, math, and reading achievement, and student perceptions of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, High School Students, Grade 11, Grade 12