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Direct linkWindham, Melissa H.; Rehfuss, Mark C.; Williams, Cyrus R.; Pugh, Jason V.; Tincher-Ladner, Lynn – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Close to half of all community college students leave before obtaining their stated goals. In order to determine what student characteristics increase community college student retention, with a heightened interest on the predictive nature of taking a student success course, a post-facto quasi-experimental study was conducted to determine whether…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Student Characteristics
Download full textUnterman, Rebecca – MDRC, 2014
Taking advantage of lottery-like features in New York City's high school admissions process, previous MDRC reports have provided rigorous evidence that new small public high schools are narrowing the educational attainment gap and markedly improving high school graduation prospects, particularly for disadvantaged students. The new findings in this…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Small Schools, High Schools, Selective Admission
Michael D. Coyne; Mary Little; D'Ann Rawlinson; Deborah Simmons; Oi-man Kwok; Minjun Kim; Leslie Simmons; Shanna Hagan-Burke; Christina Civetelli – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
The purpose of this varied replication study was to evaluate the effects of a supplemental reading intervention on the beginning reading performance of kindergarten students in a different geographical location and in a different instructional context from the initial randomized trial. A second purpose was to investigate whether students who…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Kindergarten
Hemelt, Steven W.; Roth, Kimberly B.; Eaton, William W. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2013
This study exploits a randomized trial of two light-touch elementary school interventions to estimate long-run impacts on postsecondary attendance and attainment. The first is a classroom management technique for developing behavioral skills in children. The second is a curricular intervention aimed at improving students' core reading skills. We…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Elementary Schools, Classroom Techniques, Behavior Development
Plony, Doreen A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this ex post facto study was to analyze archive data to investigate the effects of Read 180, a computer-based supplemental reading intervention, on students' academic achievement for the academic school year 2011-2012. Further analyses examined if influences existed in variables such as grade level, gender, and ethnicity of the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Kushman, Jim; Hanita, Makoto; Raphael, Jacqueline – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2011
Students entering high school face many new academic challenges. One of the most important is their ability to read and understand more complex text in literature, mathematics, science, and social studies courses as they navigate through a rigorous high school curriculum. The Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northwest conducted a study to…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Reading, Program Evaluation
Vega, Luis Diego – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study explores the effects of a Two-Way Bilingual Immersion (TWBI) program on language majority and minority students. The fundamental hypothesis was that the process of receiving instruction in two languages (English and Spanish) throughout elementary school (i.e., attendance at a TWBI school) would help the native Spanish-speaking students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Bilingual Education Programs, Quasiexperimental Design, Control Groups
