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Burzichelli, Claudia; Mackey, Philip E.; Bausmith, Jennifer – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2011
The current study replicates work of Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands. It describes dropout prevention programs in nine Mid-Atlantic Region (Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) school districts serving communities with populations of 24,742-107,250 (as of July 2008). All nine…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Mentors, Poverty, Dropout Programs

Farkas, George; And Others – Economics of Education Review, 1989
Uses High School and Beyond data to examine the effect of rationing secondary school vocational training opportunities on program participants' and nonparticipants' beginning wage. Secondary vocational education brings little or no wage advantage in training-related jobs. However, findings do not disprove vocational training program effectiveness.…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Labor Force Development, Models, Program Effectiveness

Mancebon, Maria-Jesus; Bandres, Eduardo – Education Economics, 1999
Evaluates efficiency of a sample of Spanish secondary schools, focusing on the measurement model's theoretical specification and the "ex post" analysis of results. Highlights characteristics that differentiate the most efficient schools from the least efficient. Stresses the importance of employing information supplied by both…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Mathematical Models
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 1999
The purpose of this report is to provide information about the level of student performance in the area of writing based on results for 1998-99 from the annual on-demand writing sample of the North Carolina Writing Assessment at grades 4, 7, and 10 (English II). It notes student performance increased at grades 4 and 7 when compared to student…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Holistic Evaluation, Intermediate Grades, Secondary Education
Bredeweg, Frank H. – 1979
This 1979 report, using data from the 1977-78 academic year, presents cost and enrollment figures for Catholic high schools, along with brief explanations of the tables. About 200 Catholic high schools were selected to reflect types (private, diocesan, and parish schools), enrollment sizes (by five levels), and geographic location. In the first…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Catholic Schools, Enrollment, Expenditure per Student
1997
This document presents a summary of a national telephone survey that examined messages sent to adolescent girls (ages 10 to 17) across 6 types of media most heavily used by adolescent girls: television, movies, magazines, music videos, television commercials, and magazine advertisements. The study asked what messages are sent about gender…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Films, Gender Issues
Bredeweg, Frank H. – 1978
This study presents financial data on Catholic high schools in five enrollment ranges across the country. The two objectives of the study were to acquire general data for national purposes and to develop specific models for managing Catholic high schools. Nine tables of data are available for reference. The first part of this report deals with…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Catholic Schools, Enrollment, Expenditure per Student
Kang, Sang-Jin – 1997
Over the past 15 years a body of research has investigated organizational transitions in adolescent development. Researchers studying school transitions exclusively ask whether significant transition affects students' social and psychological development. To test the presence of transition effects, researchers have typically observed mean…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Equations (Mathematics), Factor Analysis, Grade 10

Noonan, Richard; Wold, Herman – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1980
The specification and estimation of a partial least squares model is discussed in terms of assessing the magnitude of the effects of a variety of differences among Swedish schools on the cognitive and affective outcomes of lower secondary students in science. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Achievement, Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis
Riley, Linda L. – 1993
This report documents a project to provide technical assistance, coordination, training, and resources to programs implementing the Wisconsin Model for Sex Equity in Career and Vocational Education. It describes how technical assistance was provided to all school districts served through a consortium and three special projects. Other project…
Descriptors: Career Education, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Leadership Training
Enemark, Peter; Wise, Lauress L. – 1981
Data from 10,000 17-year-old respondents to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1975-76 Special Mathematics Probe (Basic Mathematics Assessment) were analyzed. The primary purpose was to identify respondents' background characteristics associated with basic mathematics achievement. The achievement items and 241 background…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Assessment
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 2003
This full-color publication uses a tabloid format to present highlights from the National Assessment of Educational Progress 2002 writing assessment. It describes assessment content; presents major findings as average scale scores and as percentages of students scoring at or above achievement levels for the nation, at grades 4, 8, and 12; shows…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 8
Persky, Hilary R.; Daane, Mary C.; Jin, Ying – 2003
This report presents the results of the 2002 assessment in writing from the National Assessment of Educational Progress for the nation and for the participating states and jurisdictions. Comparisons are made to performance in the national assessment of 1998 at grades 4, 8, and 12. Comparison data are given within and across participating states…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 8
Greenwald, Elissa A.; Persky, Hilary R.; Campbell, Jay R.; Mazzeo, John – 1999
This report presents the results of the 1998 NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) writing assessment of fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students for the nation and for participating states or jurisdictions. It provides results for subgroups of students defined by various background and contextual characteristics. The Introduction…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 8
Eignor, Daniel R. – 1985
The feasibility of pre-equating, or establishing conversions from raw to scaled scores through the use of pretest data before operationally administering a test, was investigated for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Item-response theory based equating methods were used to estimate item parameters on SAT pretest data, instead of using final form…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Equated Scores, Estimation (Mathematics), Feasibility Studies
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