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Folger, Timothy D.; Roberts, Audrey Conway – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many school accountability systems that rely on student-level achievement data. Many states encountered uncertainty about how to meet federal accountability requirements without typical school data. Prior research provides evidence that student achievement is correlated to students' social background, which raises…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Attitudes, Grades (Scholastic), Grading
Laura María García Carrizosa; Kristof De Witte – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2024
Teacher absenteeism has high individual and societal costs and triggers a vicious cycle by increasing teacher absenteeism for the remaining teachers. Moreover, teachers' non-attendance disrupts the learning process and affects student motivation and achievement. Teacher absenteeism further exacerbates the increasing teacher shortage observed in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attendance, Models, Predictor Variables, Teacher Shortage
Meyer, Jennifer; Jansen, Thorben; Hübner, Nicolas; Lüdtke, Oliver – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Students' academic achievement is a central predictor of a long list of important educational outcomes, such as access to higher education and socioeconomic success. Prior studies have extensively focused on identifying variables that are related to academic achievement and an important variable in this context appears to be students' personality.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Personality Traits, Meta Analysis, Elementary School Students
Levy, Jessica; Brunner, Martin; Keller, Ulrich; Fischbach, Antoine – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2019
Value-added (VA) modeling can be used to quantify teacher and school effectiveness by estimating the effect of pedagogical actions on students' achievement. It is gaining increasing importance in educational evaluation, teacher accountability, and high-stakes decisions. We analyzed 370 empirical studies on VA modeling, focusing on modeling and…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Newman, Je-Nata Kennedy – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the relationship between principals' perceptions of their transformational leadership behaviors and academic achievement in the areas of reading, math, science, and social studies in South Carolina public elementary schools. The theoretical framework for this research was provided…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Transformational Leadership, Correlation
Fernandez, Chris; Fletcher, Carla – TG (Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation), 2014
In December 2012, the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation (TG) released a report outlining an unexpected set of conclusions. Citing data from the U.S. Department of Education's Baccalaureate and Beyond (B&B) study, the report found that, among students who earned bachelor's degrees during the 2007-2008 academic year (AY) and borrowed…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Transfer Students, Financial Aid Applicants, Demography
Carter, Ted – Kansas Association of School Boards, 2014
This report shows the impact of various school funding measures on student outcomes measured by NAEP, ACT, and SAT scores, the four-year cohort graduation rate, and percent of the population ages 18-24 with at least a high school diploma. State-level data for the United States from 2005 through 2014 as available is utilized to establish the nature…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Outcomes of Education, Scores, Outcome Measures
Swanson, Jodi; Valiente, Carlos; Lemery-Chalfant, Kathryn – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
Components of the home environment are associated with children's academic functioning. The accumulation of risks in the home are expected to prove more detrimental to achievement than any one risk alone, but the processes accounting for this relation are unclear. Using an index of cumulative home risk (CHR) inclusive of protective factors, as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Risk Assessment, Family Environment
White, Bradford R.; Bowers, Alex J. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2011
This report, the fourth in an IERC series on public school principals in Illinois, summarizes recent research on the characteristics associated with principal effectiveness and examines Illinois data on the relationship between principal characteristics, student proficiency, and teacher qualifications. In order to investigate the relationships…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Academic Achievement, Principals, Educational Policy
Keegan, Edward W. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Recent literature casts unfavorable light upon the middle school as the most appropriate grade configuration in which to effectively educate young adolescents. The current criticism of middle schools may be fueled, in part, by "A Nation at Risk," the "No Child Left Behind Act," and a growing subsequent emphasis on…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Class Size, Middle Schools, Discipline
Abbott, Martin; Hart, Christopher; Lybrand, Jasmine; Nouri, Leila – Washington School Research Center, 2009
The purpose of this report is to discuss the continuing difficulties school leaders and students face as they grapple with the "achievement gap" among students of different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Several years ago, researchers at the Washington School Research Center sought to evaluate the "unique contribution of low…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Ethnicity, Low Income Groups, Socioeconomic Influences
Dean, Mark D. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
An era of high stakes accountability has expanded the necessity for school districts to secure principals with leadership behaviors that encourage successful academic performance. School leaders are sought to deliver practices that guide and empower entire school communities through unprecedented times of educational change. Research studies…
Descriptors: Report Cards, School Size, Predictor Variables, Educational Change
Stevens, Karmenlita L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study is to compare the teacher retention rates in public elementary and middle schools in Georgia that met or did not meet the academic performance component of Adequate Yearly Progress. The teacher retention rates were expected to be higher in schools that met the academic performance component of AYP and lower in the schools…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Middle Schools, Teacher Persistence, Educational Improvement
Mottram, Emily; McCoy, Emily – National Literacy Trust, 2010
In the last three decades, several strands of research have produced compelling evidence justifying a focus on the family with a particular emphasis on early years in order to raise literacy standards. Partners in Literacy is an evidence-based model which is built on these key research findings, these are: (1) Families and parents are critical to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Intervention, Family Characteristics
Camilli, Gregory – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2009
According to a new study of Milwaukee public schools, student achievement has benefited from voucher-based school competition. A novel method, using geocoding, was proposed for measuring the degree of competition within the city of Milwaukee and, in turn, for determining whether such competition has increased or decreased the achievement of public…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Academic Achievement, Competition