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Download full textNketsia, William; Side, Ali Sani; Opoku, Maxwell Peprah; Gemeda, Fekede Tuli – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
There is a global challenge to retain qualified beginning teachers across the school system. In the first 10 years of entering the profession, a large number of beginning teachers exit altogether. While high-income countries have been designing policies and discussing effective ways to retain beginning teachers, the African share of such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Persistence, Predictor Variables, Beginning Teachers
Dorius, Shawn F.; Tandberg, David A.; Cram, Bridgette – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
This study leverages human capital theory to identify the correlates of expected returns on investment in higher education at the level of institutions. We leverage estimates of average ROI in post-secondary education among more than 400 baccalaureate degree conferring colleges and universities to understand the correlates of a relatively new…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Institutional Characteristics, Human Capital
An, Brian P.; Taylor, Jason L. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
We examine whether dual enrolled students display greater levels of college readiness than nonparticipants. Advocates assert that dual enrollment improves students' college readiness, but despite these assertions, few researchers have evaluated this relationship. Moreover, researchers that do consider whether dual enrollment improves college…
Descriptors: Employed Parents, College Readiness, Evidence, College Credits
Matos-Díaz, Horacio; García, Dwight – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
Over concerns about private school students' advantages in standardized tests, beginning in 1995-96 the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) implemented a new admissions formula that reduced the weight they previously had in the General Admissions Index (GAI), on which its admissions decisions are based. This study seeks to determine the possible…
Descriptors: College Admission, Private Schools, Gender Differences, Equal Education
Rauschenberg, Samuel – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
Differential grading occurs when students in courses with the same content and curriculum receive inconsistent grades across teachers, schools, or districts. It may be due to many factors, including differences in teacher grading standards, district grading policies, student behavior, teacher stereotypes, teacher quality, and curriculum adherence.…
Descriptors: Grading, Poverty, Racial Differences, English Instruction
Yesil Dagli, Ummuhan – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
In recent years, schools have tended to eliminate recess period and to devote more time to instruction in order to increase academic achievement. Using a nationally representative sample, this study examined reading scores of students who experienced different numbers of recess days in a week, and different number of times and length of recess in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education, Public Schools
