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Nancy Montes; Fernanda Luna – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2024
This article characterizes and reflects on the possible uses of early warning systems (hereafter, EWS) in the region as effective tools to support educational pathways, whenever they identify risks of dropout, difficulties for the achievement of substantive learning, and the possibility of organizing specific actions. This article was developed in…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Use, At Risk Students, Foreign Countries
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Ay, Sule; Sahin, Seyma; Okmen, Burcu; Incirci, Ayhan – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
It was aimed in this study to reveal the general tendency of studies in the field of education by examining the papers in the high-impact A-class SSCI journals, to which qualified papers are accepted from all around the world, in terms of their dependent-independent variables, sample or study groups, research designs, data collection instruments,…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Journal Articles, Educational Research, Predictor Variables
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Coleman, Chad; Baker, Ryan S.; Stephenson, Shonte – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
Determining which students are at risk of poorer outcomes -- such as dropping out, failing classes, or decreasing standardized examination scores -- has become an important area of research and practice in both K-12 and higher education. The detectors produced from this type of predictive modeling research are increasingly used in early warning…
Descriptors: Prediction, At Risk Students, Predictor Variables, Elementary Secondary Education
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2018
The Forum Guide to Early Warning Systems provides information and best practices to help education agencies plan, develop, implement, and use an early warning system in their agency to inform interventions that improve student outcomes. The document includes a review of early warning systems and their use in education agencies and explains the…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Best Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Data Collection
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Cruickshank, Ken; Wright, Jan – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2016
The current discourse in Australian languages education is that if children study languages in the early years, then languages uptake in secondary schools will increase. There has been little coherent data collection and analysis, however, to support or challenge this discourse. This article draws on findings from an ARC Linkage study in NSW…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Urban Schools
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Gapinski, Mary Ann; Sheetz, Anne H. – Journal of School Nursing, 2014
The National Association of School Nurses' research priorities include the recommendation that data reliability, quality, and availability be addressed to advance research in child and school health. However, identifying a national school nursing data set has remained a challenge for school nurses, school nursing leaders, school nurse professional…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Data Collection, Documentation, Administration
Smith, Eddie Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This research attempted to determine variables predictive of success in mathematics achievement among pre-service teachers at UMKC. It was conducted during the Winter 2006 semester at a medium-sized urban university. The participants (all students enrolled in geometry courses) were invited to volunteer; 49 agreed to participate. Three structured…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Urban Universities, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement
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Chen, Chen-Su; Sable, Jennifer; Mitchell, Lindsey; Liu, Fei – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
The Common Core of Data (CCD) nonfiscal surveys consist of data submitted annually to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) by state education agencies (SEAs) in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the four U.S. Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin…
Descriptors: School Surveys, Documentation, State Surveys, Annual Reports
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Christ, Theodore J.; Zopluoglu, Cengiz; Long, Jeffery D.; Monaghen, Barbara D. – Exceptional Children, 2012
Curriculum-based measurement of oral reading (CBM-R) is frequently used to set student goals and monitor student progress. This study examined the quality of growth estimates derived from CBM-R progress monitoring data. The authors used a linear mixed effects regression (LMER) model to simulate progress monitoring data for multiple levels of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Oral Reading, Data Collection, Outcomes of Education
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Bowers, Alex J. – Journal of Educational Research, 2010
Studies of student risk of school dropout have shown that present predictors of at-risk status do not accurately identify a large percentage of students who eventually drop out. Through the analysis of the entire Grade 1-12 longitudinal cohort-based grading histories of the class of 2006 for two school districts in the United States, the author…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Dropouts, Graduation, At Risk Students
Fishman, Callen E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Parents of students in special education have greater barriers to parent involvement than parents of students in general education. Little is known, however, about the factors that facilitate or impede involvement practices for this group. This study investigated the extent to which the motivational factors from Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler's (2005)…
Descriptors: Special Education, Disabilities, Parent Participation, Motivation
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Miller, Jessie L.; Vaillancourt, Tracy; Boyle, Michael H. – Social Development, 2009
This study examined the heterotypic continuity of aggression hypothesis (physical to indirect) using independent teacher reports of aggression drawn from a nationally representative sample of 749 Canadian girls and boys. Confirmatory factor analysis using an accelerated longitudinal design confirmed a two-factor model of physical and indirect…
Descriptors: Aggression, Females, Factor Analysis, Males
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Chang, Kuo-En; Lan, Yu-Ju; Chang, Chien-Mei; Sung, Yao-Ting – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2010
The work described in this paper explores the feasibility of using of a wireless handheld system (WHS) that supports the individual and co-operative reading activities of students and helps teachers implement reading strategy instruction in Chinese language classes. The experimental findings demonstrate that the WHS benefits students applying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction
Stagner, Matthew; Goerge, Robert; Ballard, Pete – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2009
This report makes a number of recommendations on new directions for the development of child well-being indicators. For developmental transitions throughout early childhood, the authors call for standardizing birth records across states, collecting additional data at immunization visits, and creating common assessments at kindergarten entry. For…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Information Systems, Social Indicators, Kindergarten
Herlihy, Corinne – National High School Center, 2007
The transition into high school is a critical point in the educational pipeline, and ninth-grade can be characterized as one of its leakiest junctures. This policy brief examines how some states and districts are currently easing the transition into high school for students. It focuses on five key challenges that states, districts and schools…
Descriptors: High Schools, Grade 9, Dropout Prevention, School Statistics
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