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Liu, Ou Lydia; Liu, Huili; Roohr, Katrina Crotts; McCaffrey, Daniel F. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2016
Learning outcomes assessment has been widely used by higher education institutions both nationally and internationally. One of its popular uses is to document learning gains of students. Prior studies have recognized the potential imbalance between freshmen and seniors in terms of their background characteristics and their prior academic…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Achievement Gains, College Freshmen, College Seniors
El Massah, Suzanna Sobhy; Fadly, Dalia – International Journal of Educational Management, 2017
Purpose: The study uses data drawn from a senior finance major cohort of 78 female undergraduates at Zayed University (ZU)-UAE to investigate factors, which increase the likelihood of achieving better academic performance in an Islamic finance course based on information about socioeconomic background of female students. The paper aims to discuss…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Females, Academic Achievement
Chen, Wei-Lin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Community colleges are a crucial channel for achieving postsecondary education success, especially for minority and nontraditionally aged students. Nonetheless, community colleges are inadequate to meeting national goals for postsecondary educational attainment. Most notably, the lack of a strong guidance of academic interventions stifles a…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Models, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students
Phillips, Deborah; Gormley, William; Anderson, Sara – Developmental Psychology, 2016
This study presents evidence pertinent to current debates about the lasting impacts of early childhood educational interventions and, specifically, Head Start. A group of students who were first studied to examine the immediate impacts of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Community Action Project (CAP) Head Start program were followed-up in middle school,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Economically Disadvantaged
Robinson, T. Jared; Fischer, Lane; Wiley, David; Hilton, John, III – Educational Researcher, 2014
Given the increasing costs associated with commercial textbooks and decreasing financial support of public schools, it is important to better understand the impacts of open educational resources on student outcomes. The purpose of this quantitative study is to analyze whether the adoption of open science textbooks significantly affects science…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Instruction, Earth Science, Chemistry
Jallade, Jean-Pierre; And Others – 1971
The volume is the second of two and presents additional statistical analyses of data discussed in the first, which presented 1960 and 1961 census data from 53 countries in an attempt to identify and quantify factors which determined the occupational and educational structure of the labor force. The second volume consists of eight chapters: (1) a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Census Figures, Educational Background, Foreign Countries
Hazard, Francis E.; Danner, Charles H. – 1974
A need existed to develop a graphic procedure to predict student success in 2-year engineering technology programs, based on ACT scores and high school grades. The study stemmed from the need to help students identify their chances of success, to help students clarify their goals, and to indicate needed institutional responses. Regression analysis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Engineering Technology, Grade Prediction
Lunneborg, Clifford E. – 1971
A Bayesian prediction strategy is outlined in which antecedent measures are divided into two subgroups. One subgroup is used to discriminate among criterion groups, the second to provide normal linear predictions for each group. Individualized regression constants are subsequently obtained by computing probabilities of group membership from the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Bayesian Statistics
Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2006
This study, conducted by the Community College Resource Center (CCRC), identifies community college management practices that promote student success. This study builds on earlier CCRC research using national survey data. It used transcript-level data on 150,000 students in three cohorts of first-time Florida community college students and a…
Descriptors: Probability, College Students, Academic Achievement, Community Colleges