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Edmunds, Kimberly A. – Online Submission, 2009
Access to a quality education is unevenly mapped by the demographic context of the communities in which public school students live. A growing body of research suggests that this geographic effect deeply challenges the goal of equalizing educational opportunities. This paper explores the relationship between students' neighborhood characteristics…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality, Neighborhoods, Census Figures
Bernstein, Lawrence – 1990
Educational research on the factors of student achievement has been limited by its failure to consider the multilevel or hierarchical nature of most data. This study used a nonexperimental regression-based procedure, hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), to empirically develop a predictive model of fifth-grade achievement in reading and mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Herr, Edwin L.; Baker, Stanley B.
There is a need for improved techniques for selection of students and prediction of student success in vocational-technical education. This study concerns identification of the kinds of readily available data which may be used to predict student success in Pennsylvania area vocational-technical schools and to differentiate among the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, Data Analysis