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Direct linkMicheal Stone – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study is a journey through the academic lives of 4th-grade Black males in one Central Arkansas school district. This study aimed to investigate certain behavioral variables that may impede the learning and achievement of fourth-grade Black males in Central Arkansas. In the study, groups were established by ethnicity and gender and their test…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Blacks, African American Students
Download full textMullis, Ina V. S.; Martin, Michael O.; Foy, Pierre; Hooper, Martin – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2017
PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) was inaugurated in 2001 as a follow-up to International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's 1991 Reading Literacy Study. Conducted every five years, PIRLS assesses the reading achievement of young students in their fourth year of schooling--an important transition…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Grade 4, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
Peer reviewedHewitt, Paul M.; Denny, George S. – Rural Educator, 2011
Although the four-day school week originated in 1936, it was not widely implemented until 1973 when there was a need to conserve energy and reduce operating costs. This study investigated how achievement tests scores of schools with a four-day school week compared with schools with a traditional five-day school week. The study focused on student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Blom, Lindsey C.; Alvarez, John; Zhang, Lei; Kolbo, Jerome – ICHPER-SD Journal of Research, 2011
A wide variety of school-based physical activity contexts have been recently associated with various measures of academic performance. Of these studies, a small number employing objective measures of student fitness have identified a relationship with academic achievements. However, even among these studies, the fitness-academic link has not been…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Standardized Tests, Physical Fitness, Mathematics Tests
Roby, Douglas E. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2004
The research and analysis completed for this study focuses on one variable and its relationship to student achievement: school wide student attendance. It is a variable that is often overlooked or taken for granted as an interesting but meaningless statistic, however, the positive impact of good school attendance on academic achievement may be…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement, Urban Schools
Public Policy Forum, 2008
This is the 11th annual report on conditions affecting the Racine Unified School District (RUSD). Analysis continues to focus on the long-term historical trends in RUSD, comparing RUSD to nine peer school districts and the State of Wisconsin. RUSD peer districts are Wisconsin's largest (Milwaukee Public Schools are not included) and their…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Educational Trends, Educational Finance, Academic Achievement
