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Alisa Scherbakova; Denis Dumas; Selcuk Acar; Kelly Berthiaume; Peter Organisciak – Grantee Submission, 2024
Creativity can be assessed using various methods, including divergent thinking performance, self-ratings, and teacher ratings. However, these measures may not always align, as they may not consistently identify creative potential in the same manner. The present study aimed to identify latent subgroups of students based on their observed…
Descriptors: Creativity, Elementary School Students, Lunch Programs, Low Achievement
Dixon, LaTanya L.; Dugger, Suzanne M.; Hsu, Hsien-Yuan – Grantee Submission, 2020
This study employed design-based logistic regression to examine the extent to which attending a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) magnet high school, school demographics, and student-level factors explain racial/ethnic differences in a student's intent to declare a STEM major in the first semester of college. Data were drawn…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, High School Students, Intention, Majors (Students)
Smith, Christian Michael – Grantee Submission, 2020
Studies in social stratification have used siblings as a tool to learn about the intergenerational transmission of advantage but less often have asked how siblings impact one another's life chances. The author draws on social capital theory and hypothesizes that when youths attend college, they increase the probability that their siblings attend…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Siblings, Educational Attainment, Social Capital
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Hardcastle, Joseph; Herrmann-Abell, Cari F.; DeBoer, George E. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Can student performance on computer-based tests (CBT) and paper-and-pencil tests (PPT) be considered equivalent measures of student knowledge? States and school districts are grappling with this question, and although studies addressing this question are growing, additional research is needed. We report on the performance of students who took…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Testing, Comparative Analysis, Student Evaluation
Nix, Samantha; Perez-Felkner, Lara; Thomas, Kirby – Grantee Submission, 2015
Students' perceptions of their mathematics ability vary by gender and seem to influence science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degree choice. Related, students' perceptions during academic difficulty are increasingly studied in educational psychology, suggesting a link between such perceptions and task persistence. Despite…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Mathematics Skills, Longitudinal Studies, Gender Bias