NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Radwin, David; Hensley, Elisabeth – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2012
The implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) over the coming years will provide an opportunity for K-12 and postsecondary educators to share and use data effectively to support alignment between the sectors and reduce the need for remedial education. This brief describes how these groups can work together to make the most of data…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, State Standards, Alignment (Education), Incidence
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pistilli, Matthew D.; Arnold, Kimberly E. – About Campus, 2010
This article discusses how Purdue University is changing the academic behavior of struggling students. At Purdue, they've developed Signals as a means of helping students better understand where they stand gradewise early enough so that they can seek help and raise their grade or drop the course without the penalty of a failing grade. They knew…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement, Higher Education
Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, 2010
Some of the nation's leading scholars and philanthropic organizations selected a dozen foster care experts to discuss what they know--and don't know--about improving educational outcomes for children and youth in foster care. These experts represent a wide range of experience and perspective including that of an urban county school superintendent,…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Children, Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Jensen, Carl B. – AEDS Journal, 1985
Description of a validated computer assisted instruction (CAI) program (The Addition Tutorial) illustrates how four critical components for instruction--learning principles application to instructional design; sufficient database; adequate motivational system; and delivery system which provides teacher learning environment control--might be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Addition, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware
Roey, Stephen; Caldwell, Nancy; Rust, Keith; Blumstein, Eyal; Krenzke, Tom; Legum, Stan; Kuhn, Judy; Waksberg, Mark; Haynes, Jacqueline – 2001
The 1998 High School Transcript Study provides the U.S. Department of Education and other educational policymakers with information regarding current course offerings and students' course-taking patterns in U.S. secondary schools. Similar studies were conducted in 1982, 1987, 1990, and 1994. This guide documents the procedures used to collect and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Core Curriculum, Course Selection (Students)
Rodel, Lee J. – 1979
The technical implementation and operation of the Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM) system are discussed in this manual. It is written as a guide for those responsible for implementing CAM and for processing CAM-related work requests. Subjects covered include: CAM system operation summary: objectives and test items; conferencing with the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Guides, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Managed Instruction