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Ali, Farhan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2016
Singaporean students generally perform very well in international tests of mathematics and science. Nonetheless, in multi-cultural Singapore, there exist gaps with the Malays, a minority group in Singapore, systematically lagging behind the other ethnic groups of the Chinese and Indians in many educational performance indicators. While there have…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Performance Based Assessment, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2009
One literature documents a significant, black-white gap in average test scores, while another finds a substantial narrowing of the gap during the 1980's, and stagnation in convergence after. We use two data sources--the Long Term Trends NAEP and AFQT scores for the universe of applicants to the U.S. military between 1976 and 1991--to show: (1) the…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Achievement Gap, Racial Differences, Hospitals