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Xu, Zeyu; Backes, Ben; Oliveira, Amanda; Goldhaber, Dan – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Kentucky's Targeted Interventions (TI) program is a statewide intervention intended to prepare non-college-ready high school students for college-level coursework. Using a difference-in-regression discontinuity design, we find that TI reduces the likelihood that students enroll in remedial courses by 8 to 10 percentage points in math. These…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, High School Students, College Readiness
Hernandez, Tammy Celeste – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative, ordinal logistic regression study aimed to explore the relationship between the implementation of personalized learning and special education students' progress measures on STAAR. Another purpose was to determine if teachers' perceptions of implementation, using Olofson's survey, can predict the growth on STAAR. The conceptual…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Teacher Attitudes
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Wagner, Kerstin; Merceron, Agathe; Sauer, Petra; Pinkwart, Niels – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2023
In this paper, we present an extended evaluation of a course recommender system designed to support students who struggle in the first semesters of their studies and are at risk of dropping out. The system, which was developed in earlier work using a student-centered design and which is based on the explainable k-nearest neighbor algorithm,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, At Risk Students, Dropouts, Dropout Programs
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Mapes, Ayla. R.; Cavell, Timothy A. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2023
Many universities offer autism support programs (ASPs) to support college students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Initial studies support the promise of ASPs, but little research has explored which students do and do not enroll, or whether enrollees engage in program-sponsored mentoring. We explored these questions using an online survey and…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Student Personnel Services, Program Effectiveness
Marah Sutherland; Derek B. Kosty; Taylor Lesner; Joanna Hermida; Keith Smolkowski; Christian T. Doabler; Ben Clarke – Grantee Submission, 2024
The effectiveness of Tier 2 interventions may depend on the variability of student skills within an intervention group. We investigated the effect of initial variability within intervention groups using data from a large-scale study of ROOTS, a Tier 2 kindergarten mathematics intervention. Our research questions were as follows: Does mathematics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Marah Sutherland; Derek Kosty; Taylor Lesner; Joanna Hermida; Keith Smolkowski; Christian T. Doabler; Ben Clarke – Exceptional Children, 2024
The effectiveness of Tier 2 interventions may depend on the variability of student skills within an intervention group. We investigated the effect of pretest variability within intervention groups using data from a large-scale study of ROOTS, a Tier 2 kindergarten mathematics intervention. Our research questions were as follows: Does mathematics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Cortázar, Alejandra; Molina, María de los Ángeles; Sélman, Javiera; Manosalva, Alejandra – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Finding: The present study estimates the long-term effects of Chile's national public Early Childhood Care and Education program (ECCE) on children academic achievement, grade retention and school dropouts, to better understand if ECCE is helping reduce the socioeconomic achievement gap. The present study uses a quasi-experimental design…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Grade Repetition
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Prahl, Alison – Reading Psychology, 2023
Book gifting programs such as Imagination Library aim to foster a love of reading and increase children's exposure to books and academic success. This study is a conceptual replication of previous studies focused on the Imagination Library program. To examine home literacy practices and caregiver perceptions of the Imagination Library, 149…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Books, Libraries, Predictor Variables
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Curran, F. Chris – Education Finance and Policy, 2019
Recent evidence demonstrates that disparities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status in science achievement are present in the earliest grades of school. Preschool represents one potential policy solution; however, little research has explored the relationship between preschool attendance and science outcomes. This study examines whether…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Science Achievement, Kindergarten
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Collings, Raymond D.; Eaton, Leslie G. – College Student Journal, 2021
This paper reports on the feasibility of "The Study Place Project" (TSP[superscript 2] ), a novel intervention designed to improve academic achievement and retention for first-year college students. Our aim was to provide students with regular study sessions in a minimal distraction environment, allowing them to apply their own…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Intervention, Student Improvement, Grade Point Average
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Lena Hollenstein; Christian Brühwiler – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
Effective teacher education is expected to ensure that future teachers acquire professional knowledge that is relevant for coping successfully with the requirements of their teaching practice. To strengthen evidence-based teacher education, we need to better understand which teacher education outcomes are predictive for high-quality instruction…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Psychology, Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Sheral Rena Page – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the retrospective quantitative cohort regression study was to identify predictors of success on the Next Generation National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NGN-NCLEX-RN) and determine if changes are needed in the nursing program curriculum. Nurse educators and nursing administration are responsible for aligning…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Bachelors Degrees, Nursing Education, Nursing Students
Houston Independent School District, 2018
The purpose of this evaluation was to determine the impact of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Literacy Empowered (LE) initiative on the reading, literacy, and performance in core courses among high school students. Literacy Empowered is a districtwide initiative that provides support for high school students through the expansion of…
Descriptors: High Schools, Individualized Instruction, Academic Achievement, Literacy Education
Lynch, Kathleen; An, Lily; Mancenido, Zid – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
We present results from a meta-analysis of 37 experimental and quasi-experimental studies of summer programs in mathematics for children in Grades pre-K-12, examining what resources and characteristics predict stronger student achievement. Children who participated in summer programs that included mathematics activities experienced significantly…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Mathematics Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education
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Lang Chen; Hyesang Chang; Jeremy Rudoler; Eydis Arnardottir; Yuan Zhang; Carlo de los Angeles; Vinod Menon – npj Science of Learning, 2022
Growth mindset, the belief that one's abilities can improve through cognitive effort, is an important psychological construct with broad implications for enabling children to reach their highest potential. However, surprisingly little is known about malleability of growth mindset in response to cognitive interventions in children and its…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Self Efficacy, Cognitive Development, Child Behavior
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