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Purser, Rebecca; Egelson, Paula; Fuga, Chris – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2020
This research report presents the results of a study designed by SREB's Research and Accountability team to identify and unpack sources of inequity in K-12 public education. The study examined results from student surveys administered in 2018 to over 7,800 students in 15 states across the United States. Grounded in SREB's research-based Key…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Student Experience, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Surveys
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Buckelew, Susan P.; Byrd, Nikki; Key, Colin W.; Thornton, Jessica; Merwin, Michelle M. – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
This study assessed the relationships among the accuracy of grade predictions, actual grades, self-enhancement bias, and attributions about academic performance. As a group, students anticipated higher grades than were earned. Individual differences in self-enhancement bias were measured using the discrepancy between anticipated and attained…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Grade Prediction, Accuracy, Expectation
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Hill, Catharine B.; Winston, Gordon C. – Economics of Education Review, 2010
In earlier work, the authors found that only 10% of the students at 28 of the nation's most selective private colleges and universities came from families in the bottom 40% of the US family income distribution and that there is a larger share of low-income high-ability students in the national population than in the student bodies of these…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Family Income, Geographic Location, Selective Admission