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Bradley Krauz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
College-readiness testing has increased drastically over the last thirty years, with increases in the number of Scholastic Achievement Tests and American College Tests taken by students. The number of Advanced Placement tests has also reached an all-time high. With states using these college-readiness assessments as high-stakes exit tests and the…
Descriptors: College Readiness, High School Students, High School Teachers, College Entrance Examinations
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Shen, Jianping; Ma, Xin; Mansberger, Nancy; Gao, Xingyuan; Palmer, Louann Bierlein; Burt, Walter; Leneway, Robert; McCrumb, Dennis; Poppink, Sue; Reeves, Patricia; Whitten, Elizabeth – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
Policy makers, school practitioners, and scholars around the world have been searching for better school improvement models. The purpose of this study was to understand how an instrument we developed, Orientation to School Renewal, can be used to predict school-level academic achievement. We used the instrument to predict the academic performance…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Measures (Individuals), Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations
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Burgiel, Heidi; Sadler, Philip M.; Sonnert, Gerhard – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2020
The number of computer science (CS) courses has been dramatically expanding in U.S. high schools (HS). In comparison with well-established courses in mathematics and science, little is known about how the decisions made by HS CS teachers regarding how and what to teach impact student performance later in introductory college CS courses. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, High School Students, College Students, High School Teachers
Schmitt, Lisa; Carney, Dee – Online Submission, 2008
This PowerPoint report summarizes AISD student demographic and performance results at high schools as of the end of the 2007-2008 school year.
Descriptors: School Districts, Academic Achievement, High School Students, Test Results