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Direct linkCobb, Brian; Vega, Diego; Kronauge, Cindy – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2006
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of a two-way immersion elementary school program on academic achievement at the end of the elementary school and the end of the first year of junior high school. Longitudinal high stakes test data in reading, writing, and mathematics were collected on native English speakers and native Spanish…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Immersion Programs, Academic Achievement, Inferences
Download full textSt. John, Edward P.; Musoba, Glenda Droogsma; Simmons, Ada B.; Chung, Choong-Geun – 2002
This report provides an overview of Indiana's Twenty-first Century Scholars Program and analyzes a state database to assess the impact of the program on college enrollment and persistence. The Twenty-first Century Scholars Program asks low-income eighth graders to make a commitment to take the necessary steps to prepare for college. In return, the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Bound Students, College Preparation, College Students
Peer reviewedGersten, Russell; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1988
This consideration of effective ways to educate low-income, educationally at-risk students in kindergarten documents an approach that has been effective in accelerating academic growth. Results of a longitudinal study of children who received Direct Instruction in primary school indicated benefits when participants were in the ninth grade. (RH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, High Risk Students, Junior High School Students
Peak, Janie; Dewalt, Mark W. – 1993
The objective of this study was to determine if the Accelerated Reader Program significantly improved reading skills of middle-school students. This computerized enrichment program combines over 750 classics with computers. Subjects for the study were college-prep freshmen from two junior high schools within the Gaston County (North Carolina)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Intermode Differences, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Reid, John – 1992
There has been a large amount of research on the relative effects of cooperative, competitive, and individualistic learning on achievement and productivity. This paper reports a study designed to determine the effect of cooperative learning strategies on mathematics achievement of 7th graders. Based on school records indicating whether a student…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Competition, Cooperative Learning, Grade 7
Beyer, Francine S.; Presseisen, Barbara Z. – 1995
Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO) is an interdisciplinary moral education program that uses the case study of the Holocaust and World War II to develop middle and high school students' critical thinking abilities, trying to help students make connections between this history and current issues of prejudice, racism, and hatred. In the spring of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Bias, Black Students, Case Studies
