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Yan Zhou – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As the international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) become more popular, policy makers and education practitioners are interested in collecting as much student background information as possible to better understand the learning context of their students. To collect such abundant information, administrators need to develop a lot of questions.…
Descriptors: Matrices, Sampling, Research Design, Questionnaires
Hughes, Rodney P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This is a dissertation in three essays. The first essay traces changes over time in three factors that drive students' sensitivity to changes in tuition prices and presents an argument that these factors have changed differently for access to higher education and choice among alternative institutions. The essay explores the application of a…
Descriptors: College Admission, Educational Quality, Educational Attainment, Salaries
National Assessment Governing Board, 2012
For more than four decades the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has tracked the achievement of U.S. students in major academic subjects. This national resource is the only assessment that states and now many urban districts can look to as an objective yardstick of their performance over time, relative to national benchmarks, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Information Needs, Needs Assessment
Brimhall, Jack C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The research problem addressed in this study was the lack of trust between faculty-principal, faculty-client, and faculty-colleague in U.S. secondary schools. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between communicator styles and perceptions of trust. Organizational trust theory served as the theoretical foundation. A…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Research Design, Trust (Psychology), Social Change
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Simpson, Stephen N. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1980
Glass and Smith's (EJ 207 324) conclusion supporting small class size may be true, but it is not supported by their evidence. Their analysis does not recognize intervening factors and varying class sizes. (CP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lau, Peter – Sociology of Education, 1984
A study which compared two groups of college students--transfers and natives--and attributed the lower academic achievement of the transfer students to their community college experience is critiqued. The study results are not valid because the groups compared are not equivalent. An alternative approach for studying transfer students is suggested.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Gage, N. L.; Needels, Margaret C. – Elementary School Journal, 1989
Reviews the conceptualization, methodology, productivity, interpretation, and application of teaching research which focuses on the relation between classroom processes (teaching) and products (what students learn). (DE)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Research Design, Research Methodology
Yun, John T. – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2008
A new report published by the Manhattan Institute for Education Policy, "The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence from Florida's McKay Scholarship Program," attempts to examine the complex issue of how competition introduced through school vouchers affects student outcomes in public schools. The…
Descriptors: Evidence, Research Design, Public Schools, Academic Achievement
Mandeville, Garrett K. – 1987
An alternative method of identifying effective schools, based on the concept of effective schools as statistically atypical, was tested. This paper investigates the issue of consistency of the identification of what is termed "exceptional" schools. The following tests were administered to all first through fourth graders in 431 schools…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Nelson, Christopher; Hollenbeck, Kevin – 2001
In a recent report, Lewis Solmon, Kern Paark, and David Garcia (2001) seek to identify the impact of attending charter schools on student achievement using data from Arizona. Based on a sophisticated statistical analysis, these authors report that charter school attendance increases test score gains of students. This note raises some questions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kyriacou, Chris; Newson, Graham – Educational Review, 1982
The shortcomings of the three main approaches to measuring teacher effectiveness (systematic observation, participant observation, and questionnaires) are discussed and problems of research design and analysis considered. The development of better measures of educational benefits to complement the emphasis on test scores is suggested. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation Criteria, Outcomes of Education
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Michaels, James W.; Miethe, Terance D. – Social Forces, 1989
Examines the possibility that specification errors contributed to the Schuman et al. (1985) findings of a weak relationship between study time and college grades. Analyzes main and interactive effects, measures of quantity and quality of study, and various context-specific models of college grades. Results challenge previous findings. (Author/SV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Educational Research, Grades (Scholastic)
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Cooley, William W.; And Others – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1977
Clarifies a general approach to understanding teaching effectiveness research, outlines the requirements of the kind of research that is believed likely to result in verified generalizations about the primary dimensions along which effective and ineffective teachers vary, and provides an example of the kind of research it is believed is needed.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
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Clifford, Peter; Heath, Anthony – Oxford Review of Education, 1984
An analysis of three research studies which examined the movement towards comprehensive schooling in Great Britain shows that the answer to the question "has it worked" can be yes or no, depending on the selection of data and of statistical techniques. (RM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Comparative Education, Educational Assessment
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Corno, Lyn; Mandinach, Ellen B. – Journal of Educational Research, 1983
Existing classroom data were used in a preliminary test of a theoretical model of student academic motivation. Expected relationships among verbal ability, internality, self-esteem, and success were found, along with evidence that class grouping may alter them. Problems encountered using existing research for other purposes are described.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Locus of Control
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