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Predicting First-Year Achievement by Pedagogy and Skill Development in the First Weeks at University
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Torenbeek, M.; Jansen, E. P. W. A.; Hofman, W. H. A. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
Central in this study is the relationship between the pedagogical approach and generic skill development in the first 10 weeks at university, students' perception of the fit between secondary and university education and first-year achievement. Information regarding the pedagogical approach and generic skill development was gathered through…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Administration, Basic Skills, Skill Development
The Learning Communities Demonstration: Rationale, Sites, and Research Design. An NCPR Working Paper
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Visher, Mary G.; Wathington, Heather; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Schneider, Emily – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2008
Learning communities are a popular strategy that community colleges nationwide have embraced in support of developmental students. In a learning community, a cohort of students takes two or more courses linked by integrated themes and assignments that are developed through ongoing faculty collaboration. While the number of learning community…
Descriptors: Research Design, Community Colleges, Community Programs, College Programs
California Association of Work Experience Educators. Career Intern Program. 1976-77 End of Year Report.
Huntington Beach Union High School District, CA. – 1977
The California Association of Work Experience Educators (CAWEE) Career Intern Program, funded by a federal grant, sought to demonstrate that experience-based career education was a viable and needed alternative to existing learning experiences. Selecting three schools from three districts in the greater Los Angeles area, the program maintained a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education
Identification of Exemplary Schools: A Secondary Analysis of Sixth Grade Data from the California Assessment Program.
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Fetler, Mark – 1983
This paper reports on regression based methods for identifying exemplary schools. A distinction is made between schools which are maintaining an exceptional level of achievement and those which are improving their achievement in an extraordinary way. More schools were found which consistently exceeded expectations and fewer schools were found…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Data Analysis, Educational Assessment
Evaluation by Aggregation: Social and Methodological Biases.
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Wiley, David E. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1979
Title I Evaluation models using uniform procedures and data collection for state and national comparisons are interpreted as federal endorsement of basic, common competencies in reading and mathematics. Basic competencies, content homogeneity, conversion methodology, and validity of the evaluation are discussed. (MH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education
General Issues in Elementary and Secondary Education. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session on H.R. 15. Part I.
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1977
The hearings presented in this volume are composed of testimony about general trends that have implications for the future of all federal programs affecting elementary and secondary education. One of the focuses of the hearings is on demographic trends that have an impact on elementary and secondary education, particularly the question of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Competency Based Teacher Education, Data Analysis
Indicators of Educational Quality 1975-76. Summary. Office of Research Report Series, Vol. 1, No. 28.
Mandeville, Garrett K; And Others – 1977
Student achievement data from 92 school districts in South Carolina were analyzed to determine which input variables were most likely to affect educational quality. Fourth and seventh grade samples were scrutinized to determine the effects on achievement when the shared variation between achievement and the context variables was removed. The data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Correlation, Data Analysis
Indicators of Educational Quality 1975-76. Technical Report. Office of Research Report Series, Vol. 1, No. 29.
Mandeville, Garrett K.; And Others – 1977
Student achievement data from 92 school districts in South Carolina were analyzed to determine which variables were most likely to affect educational quality. Fourth and seventh grade samples were examined to determine the effects on achievement when the shared variation between achievement and the context variables was removed. The data included…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Correlation, Data Analysis