Effect sizes are commonly reported for the results of educational interventions. However, researchers struggle with interpreting their magnitude in a way that transcends generic guidelines. Effect sizes can be interpreted in a meaningful context by benchmarking them against typical growth for students in the normative distribution. Such benchmarks…

Effect sizes are commonly reported for the results of educational interventions. However, researchers struggle with interpreting their magnitude in a way that transcends generic guidelines. Effect sizes can be interpreted in a meaningful context by benchmarking them against typical growth for students in the normative distribution. Such benchmarks…

Independent schools are, for the most part, exempt from mandatory participation in standardized tests designed for state and federal comparisons, nor are they required to take part in comparative international assessments. The anxiety in the broader culture, however, is driving a growing interest among independent school parents (and prospective…

Turning around chronically low-performing schools requires a multifaceted school-wide, systematic effort that includes strong leadership and data-based decision making. School-wide efforts to turn-around low-performing schools should address the academic, social, and behavioral needs of all students. One evidence-based, systematic school-wide…

The present study was aimed at developing an attitude scale and then use it to reveal the attitude of mathematical gifted students' attitude towards mathematics. In the first phase of the study, an attitude-scale (AS) towards mathematics were designed using the psychometric approach. The AS was composed of seventeen items aimed to measure four…

The underachievement of ethnic minority youth from disadvantaged neighborhoods is a pervasive educational issue this nation is facing. Based on an ecological perspective, we examined the contextual effects of neighborhood ethnic density and neighborhood disadvantage on the academic achievement of Hmong immigrant youths. Utilizing hierarchical…

A COMPARISON WAS MADE OF THE PERFORMANCE OF GROUPS OF ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH CHILDREN WITH AMERICAN NORMS AND WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF SIMILAR GROUPS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN ON A SERIES OF READING AND SPELLING TESTS AND A HANDWRITING SCALE STANDARDIZED IN THE UNITED STATES. SCORES ATTAINED ON THE PARAGRAPH MEANING AND WORD MEANING SUBTESTS OF THE…

This study was designed to measure how the length of the school day affects the academic achievement of kindergarten children. A total of 189 kindergarten children were divided into two groups. The study group consisted of 131 children from five classes who attended class for a full school day, and the control group consisted of 58 children from…

Nine school effectiveness indices computed by five different methods from longitudinal data are compared. Data consisted of Total Reading scores from the Metropolitan Primary II Achievement Test administered to third-graders in 70 elementary schools. (Author/RC)

Twenty-nine first grade monolingual English speaking children and 59 English second language children (given the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Raven Matrices in kindergarten) were tested via the Metropolitan Achievement Test to determine achievement levels of Italian children and the predictive relationship between measures of ability…

LATE SCHOOL ENTRANTS WERE SELECTED AND MATCHED WITH EARLY SCHOOL ENTRANTS ON THE BASES OF AGE, IQ, SEX, SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, AND CLASSROOM. IN ADDITION, LATE SCHOOL ENTRANTS WERE SELECTED FROM THE SAME GRADE RANGES FROM ALL LATE SCHOOL ENTRANTS IN THE COUNTY AND COMPARED WITH THE SAME NUMBER OF RANDOMLY SELECTED EARLY SCHOOL ENTRANTS FROM ONE…

Compares reading-disabled students' instructional levels yielded by the Ekwall Reading Inventory and the Metropolitan Achievement Test. Finds that both instruments provide instructional-level designations to help place students in appropriate materials but little correspondence between the instructional levels of the two measures. Suggests that…

A study was conducted to determine whether or not a child who is older when entering school performs better on reading readiness and achievement tests than a younger child. Two samples of second grade students from a middle class community in Bloomfield, New Jersey, were established by examining the ages of all the children in the cohort. Sample A…

Sixteen Hispanic Spanish/English bilingual children (6 boys and 10 girls) participated in a single-subject design study. Their chronological ages ranged from 8 to 9.5 years. The classroom teacher identified all the children as "academic at risk" on the basis of a history of poor academic performance in spelling and low scores on the…