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Musick, David W.; Ray, Richard H. – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
A medical school conducted a summer pre-matriculation program. The program provided basic sciences content comparable to first year medical student instruction along with clinical and other learning experiences. The study purpose was to examine self-confidence levels and reasoning skills of a single cohort of students. We examined the association…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Medical Students, Summer Programs, Pilot Projects
McFarland, Joel; Stark, Patrick; Cui, Jiashan – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
Dropping out of high school is related to a number of negative outcomes. For example, the median income of persons ages 18 through 67 who had not completed high school was roughly $26,000 in 2013. By comparison, the median income of persons ages 18 through 67 who completed their education with at least a high school credential (i.e., a regular…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, High School Graduates, Dropout Rate
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
Brimeyer, Ted M.; Schueths, April M.; Smith, William L. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2014
Supporters of university honors programs argue that these programs benefit the university and entire student body while critics argue that honors programs reproduce socioeconomic and racial privileges. In an attempt to address these issues, researchers used quantitative survey data to compare the background characteristics, behaviors, and…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Educational Benefits, Student Characteristics, Student Attitudes
Jennings, Jennifer L.; Deming, David; Jencks, Christopher; Lopuch, Maya; Schueler, Beth E. – Sociology of Education, 2015
Do schools reduce or perpetuate inequality by race and family income? Most studies conclude that schools play only a small role in explaining socioeconomic and racial disparities in educational outcomes, but they usually draw this conclusion based solely on test scores. We reconsider this finding using longitudinal data on test scores and…
Descriptors: School Statistics, Educational Quality, Evidence, Educational Opportunities
Maksl, Adam; Ashley, Seth; Craft, Stephanie – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2015
News media literacy refers to the knowledge and motivations needed to identify and engage with journalism. This study measured levels of news media literacy among 500 teenagers using a new scale measure based on Potter's model of media literacy and adapted to news media specifically. The adapted model posits that news media literate individuals…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Information Skills, Knowledge Level, Motivation Techniques
Inoa, Rafael; Weltsek, Gustave; Tabone, Carmine – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2014
Past studies have shown positive correlations between the arts and academic achievement when the arts were integrated into the literature curriculum. Other studies have shown positive associations between the arts and other areas of the curriculum, such as mathematics and science. Considering the Theory of Change, which employs understandings in…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Language Arts, Drama, Mathematics Achievement
Budd, Deborah; Stowers, Genie N. L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
This study explores the extent to which community colleges succeed in assisting students to transfer to four-year colleges. The study uses data from the California Community College system to test hypotheses about overall transfers and transfers of underrepresented students, It utilizes a framework based upon social reproduction theory (Bowles…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Articulation (Education), Hypothesis Testing
Chang, Mido; Choi, Namok; Kim, Sunha – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
The goal of the study was to provide empirical findings on the effects of different types of parents' school involvement (PSI) on their children's mathematics performance. For PSI, we explored parent participation in parent-teacher conferences, voluntary parental involvement in school activities, parent informal contact with school or teachers,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Minority Group Students
Minor, Elizabeth Covay; Desimone, Laura M.; Phillips, Kristie J. R.; Spencer, Kailey – American Journal of Education, 2015
In this study, we use the US nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort to examine inequalities in opportunities to learn mathematics. Specifically, we examine the characteristics of US students' elementary school math teachers and the instruction they provide. While our findings are consistent with previous…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Longitudinal Studies, Cohort Analysis, Mathematics Education
Hamer, LaJuana Maurice – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the number of transitions by students from school to school on their mathematics achievement. Transition is defined as the number of times a student has changed schools from Kindergarten to the current school year. This study also looked at the relationship between the students' perceived…
Descriptors: Algebra, Self Efficacy, High School Students, Mathematics Achievement
Pratt, Sheila R.; Kuller, Lewis; Talbott, Evelyn O.; McHugh-Pemu, Kathleen; Buhari, Alhaji M.; Xu, Xiaohui – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009
Purpose: The goal of this study was to determine the impact of age, gender, and race on the prevalence and severity of hearing loss in elder adults, aged 72-96 years, after accounting for income, education, smoking, and clinical and subclinical cardiovascular disease. Methods: Air-conduction thresholds for standard and extended high-frequency…
Descriptors: Income, Smoking, Incidence, Diseases
Lodhavia, Rajalakshmi – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This quantitative research study used ex post facto data to analyze possible relationships between a discrete set of independent variables and academic achievement among provisionally admitted students at a public, four-year historically black university located in the mid-Atlantic United States. The independent variables were first-generation…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Grade Point Average, Graduation Rate, Statistical Analysis
Clark, David; Viglietti, Gina C.; Slate, John R. – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2008
In this study, the authors examined the relationship of 1,128 sixth and seventh grade students' grades in four subject areas (i.e., math, reading, science, and social studies) and their scores on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge & Skills (TAKS) Reading, Math, and Writing measures for the 2006-2007 school year as a function of their weight…
Descriptors: Obesity, Middle School Students, Grades (Scholastic), Grade 6
Smith, James P. – 1978
Using statistical analyses of 1960 and 1970 census data, this paper explores reasons for the remarkable rise in the relative wage of black women in the United States. Education, government employment, geographical region of residence (South or non-South), and hours worked are the four variables employed. The analytical framework of the study is…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Employment, Census Figures, Cohort Analysis
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