Through a synthesis of test publisher norms and national longitudinal datasets, this study provides new national norms of academic growth in K-12 reading and math that can be used to reinterpret conventional effect sizes in time units. We propose d' a time-indexed effect size metric to estimate how long it would take for an "untreated"…

VARIOUS ASPECTS OF A NEW YORK CITY COMMUNITY ZONING PLAN (CZP) ARE EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT. INITIATED IN 1964, THE PLAN WAS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE ETHNIC BALANCE IN THE SCHOOLS BY PAIRING SELECTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS TO CREATE SINGLE ATTENDANCE ZONES. STUDENTS IN THE LOWER GRADES ATTENDED ONE SCHOOL WHILE THOSE IN THE UPPER GRADES ATTENDED THE…

Data collected during the Anchor Test Study norming phase were used to investigate substantive relationships between reading achievement and school, classroom, and pupil variables. School characteristics, such as location, public or private, socioeconomic level, and percentage minority enrollment, were found to be related to achievement in reading…

Two hundred first grade children participated in an experimental program involving innovative curricula and instructional techniques. A pretest-posttest method of instruction, employing sequenced and structured learning activities, enabled each child to progress at an individual rate and was supplemented by a readiness program. Evaluation of the…