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Evaluating School Effectiveness in an Urban School District: Promises, Problems, and New Directions.
Fortenberry, Robert N.; And Others – 1988
About 30,000 students in Grades 1 through 12 in Jackson, Mississippi, were studied to determine the effectiveness of instruction for all major social groups represented by the student population during the 1986-87 school year. The California Achievement Test and course grades were used to obtain core data. Demographic data were obtained for…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textNew Orleans Public Schools, Louisiana. Dept. of Educational Accountability. – 1993
The California Achievement Test (CAT) has been administered in Orleans Parish (Louisiana) annually each spring to gauge performance of New Orleans Public Schools students since 1989. In 1992, the CAT was given to students in kindergarten and grades 3, 5, and 8. With few exceptions, median percentiles for New Orleans students were below the 40th…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Attendance, Compensatory Education
Delidow, Stanley V. – 1989
This study was begun in the Fall of 1985 to determine the long-term effects of retention in one of the six COOR Intermediate School District Areas (Roscommon, Michigan). The major focus is on academic achievement as measured by the California Achievement (CA) Test, which has been given to every kindergarten through eighth grade student in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
