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M. Danish Shakeel; Paul E. Peterson – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Principals (policymakers) disagree as to whether U. S. student performance has changed over the past half century. To inform conversations, agents administered seven million psychometrically linked tests in math (m) and reading (rd) in 160 survey waves to national probability samples of cohorts born between 1954 and 2007. Estimated change in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Time Perspective, Ethnic Diversity, Socioeconomic Status
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Jonesa, Lise Øen; Mangerb, Terje; Eikeland, Ole-Johan; Asbjørnsen, Arve – Journal of Correctional Education, 2013
The aim of the present study was to examine whether reading or writing self-efficacy rather than actual skills could predict participation in prison education when controlled for age, sentence length, and education level. Six hundred subjects from a representative sample of prisoners in Norway completed a questionnaire, and a subsample of 92 of…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Self Efficacy, Reading Skills, Writing Skills