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Christopher Redding – Urban Education, 2025
Given urban school and district administrators' historical challenges with recruiting and retaining a high-quality, racially diverse teacher workforce, there is a need to better understand the factors shaping why graduates return to teach in their home district. This descriptive study examines the high school students who returned to teach in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High School Graduates, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status
Geiser, Saul – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2020
One of the major claims of the report of University of California's Task Force on Standardized Testing is that SAT and ACT scores are superior to high-school grades in predicting how students will perform at UC. This finding has been widely reported in the news media and cited in several editorials favoring UC's continued use of SAT/ACT scores in…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average, Standardized Tests, College Admission
Black, W. K.; Matz, Rebecca L.; Mills, Mark; Evrard, A. E. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Problem Roulette (PR), an online study service at the University of Michigan, offers points-free formative practice to students preparing for examinations in introductory science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses. Using four years of PR data involving millions of problem attempts by thousands of students, we quantify the benefits…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
Sternberg, Robert J.; Siriner, Ilaria; Oh, Jaime; Wong, Chak Haang – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
We administered both maximum-performance and typical-performance assessments of cultural intelligence to 114 undergraduates in a selective university in the Northeast of the United States. We found that cultural intelligence could be measured by both maximum-performance and typical-performance tests of cultural intelligence. Cultural intelligence…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intelligence, Adjustment (to Environment), Knowledge Level
Shackelford, T. Daniel; Ratliff, M. Scott; Mezuk, Briana – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
Prior work has demonstrated that debate is associated with academic achievement in high school. Whether debate in high school is predictive of better college outcomes beyond its established relationship with promoting college readiness as indicated by the ACT is unknown. This research examines and evaluates the impact of participating in a high…
Descriptors: Debate, Student Participation, High School Students, College Admission
Allen, Jeff – ACT, Inc., 2022
The research summarized in this paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on student performance on the ACT[TM] test. The author compares scores during the three years preceding the pandemic (2018, 2019, and early 2020) to scores in 2021 and 2022 while accounting for changes in the tested population across years. For students tested in…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Achievement, Scores
Brian Holzman; Bethany Lewis; Hao Ma – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2024
This brief examines which students in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) are more likely to earn the STEM endorsement and whether STEM endorsement completion predicts college enrollment. Analyses show that gender, STEM magnet program enrollment, and cumulative high school grade point average (GPA) predict STEM endorsement completion.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Prediction, College Enrollment, Gender Differences
Simmons, Amber B.; Heckler, Andrew F. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Two set of studies were conducted to better understand grades and grading practices in physics courses, and how these might influence demographic representational disparities in physics. The first study investigates the relationships between grades and the student-level factors of standardized test scores, (binary) gender, underrepresented…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Grading, Disproportionate Representation, Introductory Courses
Sanchez, Edgar I.; Moore, Raeal – ACT, Inc., 2022
This study employs hierarchal linear modeling to examine whether high school grade inflation occurred between 2010 and 2021, including for students who were tested during the pandemic. The study does so while simultaneously accounting for student and school characteristics. This is the first study, to the current authors' knowledge, that makes use…
Descriptors: Grade Inflation, Institutional Characteristics, Pandemics, COVID-19
Allen, Jeff; Suh, Hongwook; Heneger, Jeremy – ACT, Inc., 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruptions to the educational system in Nebraska and across the world. At the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, schools in Nebraska were forced to replace on-site instruction with virtual instruction. During the 2020-2021 academic year, many students learned online or under hybrid learning formats.…
Descriptors: Scores, COVID-19, Pandemics, College Entrance Examinations
Alvarado, Steven Elías – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
This study examines the association between college-bound friends and college enrollment using restricted transcript data from the High School Longitudinal Study. Propensity score matching and school fixed effects models suggest that having close college-bound friends is positively associated with enrolling in college. However, Black and Latino…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Peer Influence, College Attendance, High School Students
Suárez, Mario I.; Dabney, Alan R.; Waxman, Hersh C.; Scott, Timothy P.; Bentz, Adrienne O. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The present study explores demographics, pre-university characteristics and multi-year (2003-2013) tracking of a census of 53,077 students who initially declared a STEM major upon entering a research university in the United States Southwest and seeks to predict graduation with a STEM and non-STEM degree. Guided by QuantCrit theory, we use…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Persistence, Majors (Students), College Students
The Bottom Line on College Advising: Large Increases in Degree Attainment. EdWorkingPaper No. 21-481
Barr, Andrew C.; Castleman, Benjamin L. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
We combine a large multi-site randomized control trial with administrative and survey data to demonstrate that intensive advising during high school and college leads to large increases in bachelor's degree attainment. Novel causal forest methods suggest that these increases are driven primarily by improvements in the quality of initial…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, High School Students, College Students, Educational Attainment
Lucas, Lyrica; Helikar, Tomáš; Dauer, Joseph – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Comprehensive understanding of complex biological systems necessitates the use of computational models because they facilitate visualisation and interrogation of system dynamics and data-driven analysis. Computational model-based (CMB) activities have demonstrated effectiveness in improving students' understanding and their ability to use and…
Descriptors: Cytology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Biology
Louisiana Board of Regents, 2022
The Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (subsequently renamed the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students, also known as TOPS) was created by Act 1375 of the 1997 Regular Legislative Session. The first college freshman class to receive TOPS awards entered postsecondary education in the fall of 1998. Act 1202 of the 2001 Regular Legislative…
Descriptors: Tuition, College Entrance Examinations, High School Graduates, Eligibility