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Direct linkRetelsdorf, Jan; Becker, Michael; Koller, Olaf; Moller, Jens – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Background: Assigning students to different school tracks on the basis of their achievement levels is a widely used strategy that aims at giving students the best possible learning opportunity. There is, however, a growing body of literature that questions such positive effects of tracking. Aims: This study compared the developmental trajectories…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Vocational Education, Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries
Download full textMartin, Michael O., Ed.; Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed.; Kennedy, Ann M., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2007
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)'s Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) provides internationally comparative data about students' reading achievement in primary school (the fourth grade in most participating countries). PIRLS also provides extensive information about the home and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Translation, Comparative Analysis, Grade 4
Peer reviewedVogely, Anita – Modern Language Journal, 1995
Examines strategies students use while performing a listening comprehension task and the relationship between strategy use and listening ability. Eighty-three students registered for first-, second-, third-, and fourth-semester Spanish participated. The first-semester students scored the highest and the second-semester students, the lowest on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection
Peer reviewedBlock, Ellen – TESOL Quarterly, 1992
Illustrates the comprehension-monitoring process used by first (L1) and second (L2) language readers of English as they read expository prose and compares the comprehension-monitoring strategies of L1 and L2 readers with respect to two problems: locating a referent and defining a vocabulary item. (59 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, English (Second Language)
Bianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score on any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Administration, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Data Collection
Bianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Administration, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Data Collection
VanTassel-Baska, Joyce; Stambaugh, Tamra – Gifted Child Today, 2006
This article describes Project Athena, a Javits program funded by the U.S. Department of Education and developed through the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary. Project Athena seeks to find ways to help impoverished children develop advanced skills in reading comprehension, literary analysis, and persuasive writing. Its…
Descriptors: Literacy, Poverty, Skill Development, Reading Comprehension
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection
