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Alexander, Carol – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The lack of college readiness in the United States is a critical issue that jeopardizes our economy. The demographic inequality of the crisis, particularly for low-income as well as Black and Latinx students, emerges from systemic problems of race and class in American education and society which suppress students' educational and economic…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average, Standardized Tests
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Karumbaiah, Shamya; Baker, Ryan S.; Shute, Valerie – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
Identifying struggling students in real-time provides a virtual learning environment with an opportunity to intervene meaningfully with supports aimed at improving student learning and engagement. In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of quit prediction modeling in students playing a learning game called Physics Playground. From the…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Persistence, Educational Games, Play
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O'Connell, Michael; Sheikh, Hammad – Educational Studies, 2009
Educational success is often synonymous with attainment of academic qualifications. However for some students, simply continuing to attend school rather than dropping out may represent an important attainment, and completion of secondary school significantly reduces chances of subsequent chronic poverty. The longitudinal US NELS dataset was…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
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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
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Kinney, Daryl W. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to fit theoretical models of prediction to students' decisions to enroll and persist in urban middle school band programs using independent variables of academic achievement, socioeconomic status (SES), family structure, mobility, ethnicity, and gender. Two models were fitted to the data using logistic regression…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Musical Instruments, Music Education
Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
In recent years, there has been heightened awareness of the importance of early childhood education and high school as intervention points in the educational lives of America's children. Less attention has been paid to the importance of the upper elementary grades and middle school and the role they must play in the preparation of students for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Intervention, Academic Achievement
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Lys, Diana B. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions Latino eighth grade students have of school and schooling factors as they transition to high school and the factors that may influence their self-perceived likelihood of graduating from high school. Middle schools are poised to help Latino students prepare themselves for a smoother…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Middle School Students, Graduation, Acculturation
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Trusty, Jerry; Niles, Spencer G. – Career Development Quarterly, 2004
This study examined how background and high school variables affected participants in either realizing their potential by completing a bachelor's degree or experiencing lost talent by not completing a bachelor's degree. A sample of participants who had demonstrated above average cognitive ability and had high postsecondary educational goals when…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Educational Attainment, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Background