Specific strategies for "turning around" chronically low-performing schools have become prominent, with the U.S. Department of Education enacting policies to promote four school improvement models that include "fundamental, comprehensive changes in leadership, staffing, and governance." Despite the attention and activity…

This volume draws lessons from the education systems of a selection of top-scoring and rapidly improving countries as measured by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). While this volume relates these lessons to the education reform agenda in the United States, they…

In this set of four supplemental tables, the authors compare the baseline test scores of the treatment and matched control group samples observed in each year after KIPP entry (outcome years 1 to 4). As discussed in Chapter III, the authors used an iterative propensity score estimation procedure to calculate each student's probability of entering…

The purpose of the present study was twofold: (1) to develop a cognitive style instrument of high internal-consistency from items on existing instruments; and (2) to investigate the relationship between cognitive style and school achievement. (Editor)

This paper presents the finding of an investigation for determining course achievement utilizing the statistical technique of path analysis. (Author)

The EPI was administered to 136 full-time postgraduate Diploma in Education students. The relationships between personality, choice of method of assessment and achievement in four theory courses were investigated. (Editor)

The "Nation's Report Card," the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. This report summarizes some of the sophisticated statistical methodology used in the 1992 Trial State Assessment of…

This field study was designed as an examination of the effects of stating self-expectancy for complex learning tasks administered under typical classroom conditions. (Author/RK)

The concept of the single group experimental research design is to test the null hypothesis that there is no significant difference between the achievement of the pupils under the experimental treatment and their achievement at their previous rate of progress. (Author)

This study was designed to investigate the differential effects of selected instructional strategies in a computer-managed instruction (CMI) learning environment. (Editor)

The present study was designed to test whether a group of teachers given a revised form of Achievement Motivation Training, a course intended to change the motivation tension system of the course participants, could, in turn, by training students outside of their regular school activity, generate a measurable improvement in their academic…

This study was designed to longitudinally assess the predictive validity and the nature of the relationships of scholastic achievement, clerical skill, and social self-esteem with the job success of hard-core unemployed clerical workers. (Author/RK)

This study investigated the test-retest reliability and consistency over time of level 1 of the WRAT (for ages 5 to 12) for two time intervals, 2 weeks and 22 weeks. (Author)

The hypothesis evaluated was that training in goal-setting would compensate for fear-of-success behavior exhibited by many girls. (Author/RK)

A total of 484 tenth-grade students, evenly divided between schools with Commonwealth libraries and those without, were assessed for motivational dispositions (need for achievement, test anxiety, and sense of responsibility for successes and failures), academic values, and displayed motivation (as revealed in choice of tasks). (Editor)