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Phelps, Richard P. – Online Submission, 2020
This review critiques the highly-praised and influential 2001 study, "Getting Tough? The Impact of High School Graduation Exams," which concluded that "minimum competency," or high school "graduation exams," had no effect on student achievement. The review compares the test classifications of "Getting…
Descriptors: High School Students, Exit Examinations, Academic Achievement, Minimum Competencies
Neupane, Ramesh – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The research purpose was to investigate the differences between learning preferences (i.e., Active-Reflective, Sensing-Intuitive, Visual-Verbal, and Sequential-Global) determined by the Index of Learning Style and gender (i.e., Male and Female) in regards to standardized achievement multiple-choice test performance determined by the Illinois Nurse…
Descriptors: Nurses, Allied Health Personnel, Cognitive Style, Preferences
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Lehrl, Simone; Smidt, Wilfried – Research Papers in Education, 2018
The study investigates direct and indirect preschool quality effects on emergent literacy skills (children's letter knowledge, oral skills, and interests and skills in print and communication) using quality indicators at process (ECERS-R, ECERS-E), structure (e.g. class size) and belief (e.g. support creativity) level. The study included a sample…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Educational Quality
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Sampson, McClain; Parrish, Danielle E.; Washburn, Micki – Journal of Social Work Education, 2018
Within the last decade, there has been a significant shift in the field of social work toward competency-based education. This article details the use of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Adapted for Social Work Performance Rating Scale. We used the measure to evaluate specific practice competencies among students (n = 33)…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Social Work, Competency Based Education, Clinical Experience