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Comunale, Christie L.; Sexton, Thomas R.; Higuera, Michael Shane; Stickle, Kelly – Educational Research Quarterly, 2021
State education departments find themselves pressured to reduce costs while improving student performance. To do so, state education departments must measure the performance of each school district in an objective, data-informed manner. We present a benchmarking methodology and illustrate its application in New York State school districts. We…
Descriptors: School Districts, Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests, Graduation Rate
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Zevallos, Ana L.; Washburn, Mara – About Campus, 2014
Over the past decades, Vincent Tinto, Edmund Thile, Francis Ianni, and others all link mentoring to better academic performance, improved social adjustment, enhanced academic experiences, and greater rates of degree completion. Even more specifically, Jean E. Rhodes, Renée Spencer, Thomas E. Keller, Belle Liang, and Gil Noam describe three…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Counseling, College Students, Program Descriptions
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Bozick, Robert; Gonzalez, Gabriella; Engberg, John – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2015
The Pittsburgh Promise is a scholarship program that provides $5,000 per year toward college tuition for public high school graduates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who earned a 2.5 GPA and a 90% attendance record. This study used a difference-in-difference design to assess whether the introduction of the Promise scholarship program directly…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, College Bound Students, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Management
Martinez, Laura; Hayes, Cheryl D. – Children's Aid Society, 2013
Social return on investment (SROI) offers a new strategy to measure and communicate the value of outcomes achieved by programs that provide social, health, and education services to children and their families. It can be a powerful tool for demonstrating the monetary value of programs and services and for communicating that value in a way that can…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Community Schools, Outcome Measures, Integrated Services
Martinez, Laura; Hayes, Cheryl D.; Silloway, Torey – Children's Aid Society, 2013
Social return on investment (SROI) analysis offers a practical new approach for measuring and communicating the value of outcomes achieved by programs that provide social, health, and educational services to children and their families. This guide highlights the key steps in conducting SROI research, issues in data-gathering and analysis, as well…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Community Schools, Outcome Measures, Integrated Services
DeAngelo, Salvatore, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The intention of this qualitative study was to explore the effects that instructional data systems have on a building level leader's capacity to evaluate student growth and inform principal practice. Principal leadership practices were examined through the lens of Kouzes and Postners' five practices of exemplary leadership (Kouzes & Posner,…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Qualitative Research
Roberts, Steven O.; Vukovic, Rose K. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
Previous research served as the platform for this study's research question: Does math anxiety mediate the relation between parental involvement and mathematics achievement? The primary purpose of this study was to examine this mediation model in a sample of at-risk second graders. Due to previous research, the investigators hypothesized that math…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Grade 2
Carson, Cristi, Ed. – Online Submission, 2012
The NEAIR (North East Association for Institutional Research) 2012 Conference Proceedings is a compilation of papers presented at the Bethesda, Maryland conference. Papers in this document include: (1) Can a Marketing Campaign Increase Response Rates to Online Course Evaluations? (Kimberly Puhala); (2) Developing Community College Peer…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Marketing, Course Evaluation, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
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Volkwein, J. Fredericks – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
Evaluative statements from alumni have legitimacy with both internal and external stakeholders. Thus, alumni studies can provide valuable evidence of institutional effectiveness and lend themselves to both locally designed and commercial survey instruments for data collection. Under ideal conditions, the results of alumni studies equip faculty and…
Descriptors: Research Design, Institutional Research, Institutional Evaluation, Alumni
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Wilkinson, Deanna L.; Carr, Patrick J. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2008
Recent work on the relationship between adolescent violence and its outcomes has posited that aggression by adolescents who are exposed to violence can be viewed as an adaptive strategy that seeks to order dangerous and unpredictable environments. Using reports from 416 active violent youth, we analyze lifetime exposure to community violence and…
Descriptors: Scripts, Cues, Violence, Youth
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Ensel, Walter M.; Lin, Nan – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
In the current paper we focus on the role of physical fitness in the life stress process for both psychological and physical well-being. The major research question posed in the current study is: Does physical fitness deter distress in a model containing the major components of the life stress process? That is, do individuals who exercise show…
Descriptors: Evidence, Stress Variables, Physical Fitness, Psychology
Shaut, William E.; Rizzo, Linda M. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1980
A study that examined the impact of state-funded programs on a potential students' college selection decision and the extent to which other variables influence their decision is discussed. A random sample of recipients of the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) in New York State was used. (MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Choice, Data Analysis, Family Income
Daniere, Andre – 1973
This report combines a theoretical study of state school aid programs with an empirical study of school districts' responses to such programs. The author's theoretical investigation of existing systems of general state aid to school districts suggests two propositions: school districts do not maximize an ordinary utility function in the light of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Postsecondary Research, Information Systems, and Institutional Aid. – 1980
A highly technical report describes higher education forecasting procedures used by the State Education Department of New York at Albany to project simulated college enrollments for New York State from 1978-1994. Basic components of the projections--generated for full- and part-time undergraduates, full- and part-time graduates, and…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, College Bound Students, Data Analysis, Declining Enrollment
Rostetter, David; Deluca, Nicholas – 1978
This paper reports research which utilizes a qualitative approach in order to document and describe the process of complex organizational conflict. Qualitative research methodology and conflict sociology can be relevant to analysis of organizational processes. The qualitative approach is interpreted to include techniques such as observation, event…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Conflict, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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