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Using High School Data to Understand College Readiness in the Northern Mariana Islands. REL 2017-268
Herman, Phillip; Carreon, Daisy; Scanlan, Spencer; Dandapani, Nitara – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2017
Over the period 2010-14 more than 80 percent of public high school graduates in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands were placed in non-credit-bearing developmental English courses and more than 92 percent were placed in developmental math courses when they enrolled at Northern Marianas College, the commonwealth's only public…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Student Characteristics, Demography, College Readiness
Parsons, Carl – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2016
Attainment data on England's school pupils are more extensive in coverage, detail, quantity, accessibility and of higher quality than monitoring statistics routinely available in other European countries. These data facilitate investigation of low attainment in England's schools and its relationship to ethnicity, gender and poverty. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Poverty, Statistical Data
Carroll, Thomas; Assane, Djeto; Busker, Jared – Journal of Economic Education, 2014
In this article, the authors use a large, recent, and accessible data set to examine the effect of economics major on individual earnings. They find a significant positive earnings gain for economics majors relative to other majors, and this advantage increases with the level of education. Their findings are consistent with Black, Sanders, and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Economics, Economics Education, Salary Wage Differentials
Suryadarma, Daniel – Education Economics, 2015
This paper uses a rich longitudinal dataset to measure the evolution of the gender differences in numeracy among school-age children in Indonesia. Girls outperformed boys by 0.08 standard deviations when the sample was around 11 years old. Seven years later, the gap has widened to 0.19 standard deviations, equivalent to around 18 months of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Evidence, Gender Differences, Numeracy
Eshetu, Amogne Asfaw – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Gender is among the determinant factors affecting students' academic achievement. This paper tried to investigate the impact of gender on academic performance of preparatory secondary school students based on 2014 EHEECE result. Ex post facto research design was used. To that end, data were collected from 3243 students from eight purposively…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Gender Differences, Case Studies, Secondary School Students
Hu, Shouping; Park, Toby J.; Woods, Chenoa S.; Tandberg, David A.; Richard, Keith; Hankerson, Dava – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2016
Developmental education courses in college--defined as classes taken in college that are below college level (Bautsch, 2013)--have come under increased scrutiny in recent years. Concerns focus on the large number of students enrolled in developmental education courses, the high cost of providing them, and the low success rates among students who…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Investigations
Hensley, Elizabeth; Ottem, Randolph; Levesque, Karen – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2017
This report uses data drawn from the 2011-12 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS:12), administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the U.S. Department of Education, to present an in-depth look at the career and technical education (CTE) teaching profession today. The purpose of this report is to provide policymakers and…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education, Vocational Education, Career Education
Gray, Shannon E.; Finch, Caroline F. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide an epidemiological profile of injuries sustained by participants in fitness activities in Victoria, Australia, based on hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) presentations and to identify the most common types, causes, and sites of these injuries. Method: Hospital-treated fitness…
Descriptors: Epidemiology, Injuries, Medical Services, Hospitals
Pucciarelli, Deanna; McNeany, Terry; Friesen, Carol – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2013
Purpose/Objective: School cafeterias have the potential to positively contribute to the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity. The purpose of this project was to assess adolescents' nutrition knowledge and dietary choices, and to measure the relationship between students' nutrition knowledge and the type of food items purchased in their…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Knowledge Level, Familiarity, Grade 7
Uygun, Selcuk – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2014
Teaching is a professional job that requires expertise. The characteristics of the professionals can affect the quality of the profession. One of these characteristics is gender. In this study, the gender-related role of teaching profession in Turkey is examined. The analysis in a historical perspective of gender distributions of students who have…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Gender Differences, Teacher Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Nagai, M.; Uyama, O.; Kaji, H. – Health Education Journal, 2013
Objective: To evaluate relations among dietary habits, bone mineral density (BMD), visceral fat area (VFA), and arterial stiffness and recommend better dietary habits. Methods: One hundred and six men and 381 women (aged 18-84) received a health checkup and answered questionnaires, with subsequent measurements of BMD (speed of sound), VFA…
Descriptors: Adults, Foreign Countries, Physical Examinations, Questionnaires
McBride, Brent A.; Dyer, W. Justin; Laxman, Daniel J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
The purpose of this study was to longitudinally examine the relationship between father involvement in school settings and student achievement. The sample, pulled from the first and second waves of the PSID-CDS data set, consisted of 596 families with children aged 5-12 at time 1. Results revealed variations in the relationship between father…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Children
The Effect of Work Placements on the Academic Performance of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education
Crawford, Ian; Wang, Zhiqi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
The main controversy as a result of the commercialisation of international education markets is that international students especially those from China are unable to perform as well as UK students in UK universities. So far, research has yet to identify the influence of placements on the academic performance of Chinese students from entry to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Job Placement
Chapman, Christopher; Muijs, Daniel – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
This study adopted a quantitative methodology involving a matched sample of federated and non-federated schools and utilising multilevel modelling techniques to explore the impact of federations on student outcomes. The sample involves a total of 50 school districts and 264 schools. These are grouped into 122 federations; 264 comparator schools…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Social Networks
Rogers, Paul; Davies, Michelle; Anderson, Irina; Potton, Anita – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The present study examines the effects of victim age, victim physical maturity, and respondent gender on attributions toward victims, perpetrator, and the nonoffending members of the victim's family in a hypothetical child sexual abuse (CSA) case. Participants read a brief CSA vignette in which the male perpetrator (a school caretaker) sexually…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Statistical Data
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