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Direct linkCzehut, Katherine Jessica Drake – ProQuest LLC, 2012
International mathematics assessments have established students in East Asia as among the best in the world and their U.S. counterparts as mediocre. What is not clear is why this "achievement gap" exists. The last major study to address this question, Stevenson and Stigler's (1992) "The Learning Gap," was published prior to…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Comparative Analysis
Jeon, Sue Bin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Previous comparisons of the gaps in educational achievement between various minority groups (non-White, non-English-speaking, low income) and their counterparts (White, English-speaking, middle income) have tended to disregard the immigrant status of the minority students. In this study, I investigated these gaps within and between immigrant…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, White Students, Minority Group Students, English Language Learners
