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Direct linkPhelps, Richard P. – Online Submission, 2020
This review critiques the highly-praised and influential 2001 study, "Getting Tough? The Impact of High School Graduation Exams," which concluded that "minimum competency," or high school "graduation exams," had no effect on student achievement. The review compares the test classifications of "Getting…
Descriptors: High School Students, Exit Examinations, Academic Achievement, Minimum Competencies
Yong, Minglee; Fleming, Charles B.; McCarty, Carolyn A.; Catalano, Richard F. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2014
This study tests the predictive associations between externalizing behaviors and internalizing symptoms and examines the mediating roles of social competence, parent-child conflicts, and academic achievement. Using youth-, parent-, and teacher-reported longitudinal data on a sample of 523 boys and 460 girls from late childhood to early…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Longitudinal Studies, Correlation
Mac Iver, Martha Abele – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2011
This 5-year longitudinal randomized study focused on the effects of a dropout prevention program implemented at two urban high schools. The program incorporated the characteristics of personalization found in previous research to have some positive effects, and typical of the type of programs implemented in many high schools nationwide. The…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Urban Schools, High Schools, Dropout Programs
