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Wei, Xin – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) holds public schools accountable for the academic achievement of student subgroups that are larger than the state minimum-subgroup-size threshold. In 2004, California added students with disabilities to the NCLB subgroup categories. Using a regression discontinuity design, this study compared the academic…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Policy Analysis
Akyuz, Gozde; Berberoglu, Giray – New Horizons in Education, 2010
Background: Teacher-related factors such as gender, experience, conceptions related to mathematics, instructional practices have effects with various magnitudes on students' mathematics achievement. Classroom related factors such as class size, class climate and limitations to teaching and their relation to mathematics achievement have also been…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Wendt, Heike; Bos, Wilfried; Goy, Martin – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2011
Several current international comparative large-scale assessments of educational achievement (ICLSA) make use of "Rasch models", to address functions essential for valid cross-cultural comparisons. From a historical perspective, ICLSA and Georg Rasch's "models for measurement" emerged at about the same time, half a century ago. However, the…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Test Theory, Group Testing, Educational Testing
Connell, Peggy H. – 1991
Results of applying different aptitude-achievement discrepancy models for test scores were compared for 150 second, 150 third, 150 fourth, and 130 fifth graders in several school systems in the Southeast who had been referred for psychoeducational testing for learning disabilities to determine whether different groups of students were identified…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance, Aptitude Tests
Green, Dan S.; And Others – 1976
The Behavior Analysis (BA) approach to Project Follow Through, a federally funded education intervention program, has reversed the trend of academic failure of poor children by improving the educational experience of poor children from 12 communities in the urban East, Midwest, rural South, and on Indian reservations in the West. The BA model is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Testing
Gorth, William P.; Wightman, Lawrence E. – 1969
The Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM) model for project evaluation is compared with the usual classroom testing and pretest-posttest approaches. All three techniques are described and then examined in detail with respect to their advantages and limitations. The resources of project CAM in the areas of urban education and computer software…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Behavioral Objectives, Comparative Testing