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Download full textDarrin DeChane; Takako Nomi; Michael Podgursky – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Like most other states, Missouri uses assessments intended to measure whether students are on a pathway to "college and career readiness." The state longitudinal data system now has the capacity to directly test that claim. We make use of 8th-grade assessment (MAP) scores in Math, Science, and Communication Arts for roughly 260,000…
Descriptors: Grade 8, College Freshmen, Correlation, College Attendance
John Q. Easton; Briana Diaz – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2023
Research studies show that students' grades are more predictive than test scores of their future academic success, including high school and post-secondary outcomes. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) recognizes the importance of grades through its longstanding "Bs or Better" campaign. Yet within CPS, boys' grades are consistently lower than…
Descriptors: High School Freshmen, Secondary School Mathematics, Gender Differences, Grading
Lauren Sartain; Silvana Freire; John Q. Easton; Briana Diaz – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Across an array of educational outcomes, evidence suggests that girls outperform boys on average. For example, in Chicago, ninth-grade girls earn math GPAs that are 0.29 points higher than boys on average. This paper examines explanations for this gap, such as girl-boy differences in academic preparation, behaviors and habits, and experiences in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Achievement Gap, Mathematics Achievement, Grades (Scholastic)
Peer reviewedBrodersen, R. Marc; Joyce, Jeanette; Yanoski, David; Underwood, Kara – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2020
There is growing attention to personalizing education to provide students with more flexibility in their education experiences and more time to master academic content (Pane, Steiner, Baird, & Hamilton, 2015). To personalize education, Legacy High School in Bismarck Public Schools, North Dakota, has implemented a schedule that allows students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Flexible Scheduling, Decision Making, Time Management
Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2020
These are the appendixes for the report, "How Legacy High School Students Use Their Flexible Time." The study examined whether students with different demographic characteristics and academic achievement levels use their flex-time differently. The study found that, on average over the school year, students had approximately 80 minutes of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Flexible Scheduling, Decision Making, Time Management
Bos, Johannes M.; Dhillon, Sonica; Borman, Trisha – American Institutes for Research, 2019
This is the final report of a large-scale independent evaluation of the Building Assets and Reducing Risks (BARR) model in ninth grade in eleven high schools in Maine, California, Minnesota, Kentucky, and Texas. This sample of schools included large and small schools in urban, suburban, and rural areas, serving students from a wide range of…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High Schools, High School Freshmen, Program Effectiveness
