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Douglas, Stratford; Sulock, Joseph – Journal of Economic Education, 1995
Discusses problems of sample selection in explaining student performance in economics classes. Reports on a study of student performance correlated with class attendance, course dropouts, and homework. Concludes that any researcher gathering data about instructional effectiveness must account for students who drop the class. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Attendance Patterns, Dropouts
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Good, Carter V. – Journal of Higher Education, 1999
Reviews research on teacher education, focusing on studies of the relationship between student achievement and high school grades, junior college transfers, gender, fraternities/sororities, attendance, student evaluation of faculty, and problems of teaching method in teacher education. (Originally published in 1930) (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Attendance Patterns, Dropout Characteristics, Educational History
Mullis, Ina V. S.; Martin, Michael O.; Gonzalez, Eugenio J.; Chrostowski, Steven J. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2004
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003 is the most recent in a very ambitious series of international assessments conducted in nearly 50 countries to measure trends in mathematics and science learning. The aim of TIMSS, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, is to improve the teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Grade 4, Mathematics Teachers