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Brobst, Sharon Christian – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This correlational study examined the relationship between type of high school a senior attends (University-Model SchoolRTM (UMS RTM) or traditional, comprehensive Christian) and academic college readiness, when controlling for prior academic achievement and gender. The study compared archival data from Christian school graduates from six schools…
Descriptors: Correlation, High Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Traditional Schools
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Wolf, Patrick J.; Kisida, Brian; Gutmann, Babette; Puma, Michael; Eissa, Nada; Rizzo, Lou – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013
School vouchers are the most contentious form of parental school choice. Vouchers provide government funds that parents can use to send their children to private schools of their choice. Here we examine the empirical question of whether or not a school voucher program in Washington, DC, affected achievement or the rate of high school graduation…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, School Choice, Program Effectiveness, Graduation Rate
Gorrell, Janet L. – 1998
This study compared the effects of multi-age classroom strategies to those of traditional classroom strategies on the academic achievement of fourth grade students in reading and math. Standardized test scores from 20 fourth-grade students in two multi-age third- and fourth-grade classrooms were compared to the scores of 20 students from 7…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Organization, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research