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Sebastian Kiguel; Sarah Cashdollar; Meg Bates – Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative, Discovery Partners Institute, 2024
In this report, we perform an analysis of kindergarten readiness in Illinois and relate it to students' third grade academic achievement. We study two cohorts of Illinois kindergarteners and follow them into third grade using data provided by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). We summarize our key findings below: (1) Disparities appear…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Test Bias, Culture Fair Tests
Fischer, Mary Margaret – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The significance of agriculture to future generations is unparalleled. The United Nations projects the global population to swell to 9.75 billion people by 2050, and to proliferate to 11.2 billion by 2100. The non-agricultural population has little to no understanding or comprehension of the complexities of sustaining a viable agricultural system.…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Agricultural Education, Agriculture, Elementary School Students
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Fakcharoenphol, Witat; Stelzer, Timothy – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
In this clinical study on helping students prepare for an exam, we compared three different treatments. All students were asked to take a practice exam. One group was then given worked-out solutions for that exam, another group was given the solutions and targeted exercises to do as homework based on the result of their practice exam, and the…
Descriptors: Physics, Test Preparation, Experiments, Comparative Testing
Easton, John Q.; Luppescu, Stuart; Rosenkranz, Todd – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2007
When 2006 Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) scores were released in March 2007, there were many questions about the comparability of the 2006 test to earlier ISATs. The 2006 ISAT was a new test, with new items, a new format, new timing requirements, and new scoring procedures. Many people were skeptical about whether it was appropriate to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Test Results, Public Schools, Achievement Tests
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1983
This report summarizes the results of a study of the achievement of Illinois high school juniors in 1970 and 1981. The purposes were to provide a comparison of student performance over a period of time and to identify educational, social, and personal conditions that relate to performance on a test of Natural Science, Social Studies, English and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing