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Download full textFinch, W. Holmes; Marchant, Gregory J. – Online Submission, 2017
A recursive partitioning model approach in the form of classification and regression trees (CART) was used with 2012 PISA data for five countries (Canada, Finland, Germany, Singapore-China, and the Unites States). The objective of the study was to determine demographic and educational variables that differentiated between low SES student that were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Direct linkMarchant, Gregory J.; Finch, William Holmes – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
A recursive partitioning model approach in the form of classification and regression trees (CART) was used with 2012 PISA data for five countries (Canada, Finland, Germany, Singapore-China, and the Unites States). The objective of the study was to determine demographic and educational variables that differentiated between low SES student that were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Low Income Groups, Socioeconomic Status
Gaertner, Matthew N. – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2011
In November, 2008, Colorado and Nebraska voted on amendments that sought to end race-based affirmative action at public universities. In anticipation of the vote, Colorado's flagship public institution--The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU)--explored statistical approaches to support class-based affirmative action. This paper details CU's…
Descriptors: Race, Universities, Income, Overachievement
Richards, Herbert C.; Bear, George G. – 1986
Richards, Gaver, and Golicz (1984) found that, in contrast to peers whose grades were accurately predicted from performance on aptitude tests, both extremely underachieving and extremely overachieving fourth-graders had negative academic attitudes. The present study aimed to replicate and extend these findings. Subjects in the replication study…
Descriptors: Demography, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades, Negative Attitudes
Lee, MaryJo Benton – 2003
Like other Indigenous populations worldwide, China's ethnic minorities have faced considerable obstacles to acquiring education. At higher levels of education, minority students have far lower enrollment rates and far higher dropout rates than Han majority students. This is particularly true at the point of college admittance, since only 2 percent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Ethnicity, Family Influence
Carpenter, Vicki; McMurchy-Pilkington, Colleen; Sutherland, Sue – 1999
In New Zealand, schools are given decile rankings based on census reports of parental socioeconomic status. An ongoing project seeks to identify beliefs and attitudes that make a teacher's work successful in low-decile primary schools in the greater Auckland area. This paper focuses on three teachers whose professional practice was considered…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Environment, Educational Practices
