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Nancy Montes; Fernanda Luna – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2024
This article characterizes and reflects on the possible uses of early warning systems (hereafter, EWS) in the region as effective tools to support educational pathways, whenever they identify risks of dropout, difficulties for the achievement of substantive learning, and the possibility of organizing specific actions. This article was developed in…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Use, At Risk Students, Foreign Countries
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Coleman, Chad; Baker, Ryan S.; Stephenson, Shonte – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
Determining which students are at risk of poorer outcomes -- such as dropping out, failing classes, or decreasing standardized examination scores -- has become an important area of research and practice in both K-12 and higher education. The detectors produced from this type of predictive modeling research are increasingly used in early warning…
Descriptors: Prediction, At Risk Students, Predictor Variables, Elementary Secondary Education
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2018
The Forum Guide to Early Warning Systems provides information and best practices to help education agencies plan, develop, implement, and use an early warning system in their agency to inform interventions that improve student outcomes. The document includes a review of early warning systems and their use in education agencies and explains the…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Best Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Data Collection
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Karatas, Serçin; Yilmaz, Ayse Bagriacik; Dikmen, Cemal Hakan; Ermis, Ugur Ferhat; Gürbüz, Onur – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2017
The aim of this study is to determine the trend concerning interaction in distance education between the years 2011 and 2015. According to this aim, 544 articles in the databases of EBSCO, Scopus, and Web of Science were examined. The examination has been conducted on the basis of various variables including year, country, number of authors,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Trend Analysis, Interaction, Qualitative Research
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Cruickshank, Ken; Wright, Jan – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2016
The current discourse in Australian languages education is that if children study languages in the early years, then languages uptake in secondary schools will increase. There has been little coherent data collection and analysis, however, to support or challenge this discourse. This article draws on findings from an ARC Linkage study in NSW…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Urban Schools
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Howe, Christine; Abedin, Manzoorul – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2013
Recognizing that empirical research into classroom dialogue has been conducted for about 40?years, a review is reported of 225 studies published between 1972 and 2011. The studies were identified through systematic search of electronic databases and scrutiny of publication reference lists. They focus on classroom dialogue in primary and secondary…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Literature Reviews, Reference Materials, Elementary Secondary Education
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Chen, Chen-Su; Sable, Jennifer; Mitchell, Lindsey; Liu, Fei – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
The Common Core of Data (CCD) nonfiscal surveys consist of data submitted annually to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) by state education agencies (SEAs) in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the four U.S. Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin…
Descriptors: School Surveys, Documentation, State Surveys, Annual Reports
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Bowers, Alex J. – Journal of Educational Research, 2010
Studies of student risk of school dropout have shown that present predictors of at-risk status do not accurately identify a large percentage of students who eventually drop out. Through the analysis of the entire Grade 1-12 longitudinal cohort-based grading histories of the class of 2006 for two school districts in the United States, the author…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Dropouts, Graduation, At Risk Students
Davis, Otto A. – 1974
The basic objective of this research program was to develop and to test an accountability model of the educational process. In cooperation with the Pittsburgh School District, a major effort was devoted toward the development of a data base, the construction of appropriate models and the conduct of analyses of the data. Some analysis was…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Demography
Webster, Linda; Larson, Larry – 1989
This document reports on the design and development of a comprehensive longitudinal monitoring system that allows for the identification of at-risk students and the evaluation of district programs and services by one high school and five elementary school districts in California and the School of Education at San Jose State University. The goal of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Longitudinal Studies
Browder, Diane M.; Fallin, Kathy; Davis, Stephanie; Karvonen, Meagan – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2003
This article describes variables that may influence alternate assessment outcomes for students with disabilities and offers recommendations to enhance student achievement. These variables include technical quality, curriculum access, data collection, instructional effectiveness, risk factors, and resources allocated to instruction. Two of four…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Alternative Assessment, Data Collection, Disabilities
Lorentz, Jeffrey L.; Coker, Homer – 1979
As part of the Competency Based Teacher Certification Project in Carroll County, Georgia, large samples of elementary and secondary school teachers and students were observed during a two-year period. Four low-inference observation measures were used to record teacher behaviors and student-teacher interactions: (1) Teacher Practices Observation…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Resnick, Daniel P.; Resnick, Lauren B. – 1987
Recent developments in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have addressed criticisms of previous assessments and have focused on state education departments as the major clients for test results. NAEP currently indicates progress in academic learning but does not define which aspects of schools are responsible for successes and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Data Collection
Rossi, Robert J.; And Others – 1979
This report examines the feasibility of collecting social indicator data on the: (1) status of women and minorities in education; (2) federal role in elementary and secondary education; and (3) condition of professional education. Previous projects conducted literature reviews and developed conceptual frameworks for these three topics, identifying…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Indicators, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Airasian, Peter W.; And Others – 1979
The methodological parameters of evaluative research studies help to identify a conceptualization of the phenomenon under investigation. Holistic critiques that identify the conceptual models under which the research was conducted shed light on the validity of the disparate inferences made from a number of studies of schools and school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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