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Download full textAnderson, David – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2010
Research has focused on four groups of factors and the achievement gap: (1) student characteristics (high school GPA, attendance patterns, courses taken in high school, participation in extra-curricular activities, etc.); (2) family characteristics (family structure, in home, parents' level of education, mobility, etc.); (3) school-based…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Characteristics, Achievement Gap, Grade Point Average
Shane, Harold G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1977
Presents an interview with W. Willard Wirtz, chairman of the College Entrance Examination Board panel investigating the decline in Scholastic Aptitude Test scores. (IRT)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Family Influence, Programing (Broadcast), Secondary Education
Wharton, Yvonne L. – 1976
Hypotheses explaining the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) score decline have been advanced in letters to the College Entrance Examination Board and to the Advisory Panel on the Scholastic Aptitude Test Score Decline, in magazine articles, and in newspaper stories. A list of these hypotheses are presented and categorized according to changes in the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Change
