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Adrienne D. Woods; Cecelia Gloski; Yangyang Wang; Paul Morgan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: Special education services are individualized supports provided to students with disabilities (SWD) that should help them make appropriate educational progress given their abilities, educational needs, and goals (Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, 2017). Concerns about the benefits of these services have emerged given the…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Access to Education
Carstens, Ralph, Ed.; Pelgrum, Willem J., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2009
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has been conducting comparative studies for 50 years. SITES 2006 is the fifth wave of surveys related to information and communication technology (ICT), a wave that IEA started with its Computers in Education Study (two studies with data collection in 1989 and 1992),…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Information Technology, Databases, Comparative Analysis
Achilles, C. M.; And Others – 1996
A project conducted in Tennessee from 1984 through 1989, Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (Project STAR), serves as a context for a discussion of educational research. The decisions required in major research projects and the problems in carrying out research are seldom discussed in conferences that present research results as completed efforts.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Databases, Decision Making
Greene, Jennifer C.; Kellogg, Theodore – 1977
Statewide assessment data available from two school years, two grade levels, and five sources (achievement tests; student, principal, and teacher questionnaires; and principal interviews), were aggregated to more closely investigate the relationship between student/school characteristics and student achievement. To organize this large number of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Databases, Educational Assessment
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Odom, Daniel P.; Grossel, Martha J. – Cell Biology Education, 2002
The National Science Foundation and others have made compelling arguments that research be incorporated into the learning of undergraduates. In response to these arguments, a two-hybrid research project was incorporated into a molecular biology course that contained both a lecture section and a laboratory section. The course was designed around…
Descriptors: Research Design, Student Attitudes, Research Projects, Educational Objectives
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Becker, William; And Others – Journal of Economic Education, 1990
Reviews literature assessing research about the teaching and learning of high school economics. Examines how student learning has been measured using results from the Test of Economic Literacy (TEL). Considers research design and two models for assessing learning and findings. Concludes standardized test scores do not reveal differences among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Databases, Economics Education
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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 (HSTS) provides the U.S. Department of Education and other policymakers about current course offerings and students' course taking patterns. In 1998 the nationally representative sample for the HSTS included 25,422 students graduating in 1994 from 264 high schools. Approximately 94% of the sampled students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Core Curriculum, Course Selection (Students)
Shaycoft, Marion F. – 1977
In 1959, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the University of Pittsburgh selected a stratified random probability sample of all secondary schools (public, parochial, and private) in the United States, tested all their students in grades 9-12 with a two-day battery of aptitude tests, information tests, tests of ability and achievement,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Biographical Inventories, Career Choice
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)
National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, University Park, PA. – 1991
This volume contains 14 papers from international sources that outline fundamental concepts and research interests connected to the measurement of quality in postsecondary education. Some of the papers consist of concept papers and others are more extensive reports of research underway or findings from recently concluded studies. The papers are as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Classification, College Outcomes Assessment