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Direct linkSzabó, Csilla Marianna; Bacsa-Bán, Anetta – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
In the strategy "Europe 2020", EU claimed the aims to increase the ratio of graduates among 30-34-year old people, which means the expansion of the number of students in higher education as well as the decrease of dropouts. This double purpose is considered to be a big challenge both for countries and for higher educational institutes.…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, College Students, School Holding Power
Papay, John P.; Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
We report results from our long-standing research partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. We make two primary contributions. First, we illustrate the wide range of informative analyses that can be conducted using a state longitudinal data system and the advantages of examining evidence from multiple…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Data, Elementary Secondary Education, Outcomes of Education
Download full textGill, Tim – Cambridge Assessment, 2015
This report looks at the provision of General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) and International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) subjects in England in 2014. In this report the level of provision is presented by different school classifications: school type, school attainment, school gender, school size and school…
Descriptors: Exit Examinations, Secondary School Students, College Entrance Examinations, Foreign Countries
Alade, O. M.; Kuku, O. O.; Osoba, A. – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2017
The study investigated influence of some factors on the performance of selected West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) candidates. It also examined the relationship between these factors and candidates' performance. Factors investigated include socio-economic background of the candidates (SEB), study hours (SH), attitude…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Mathematics Achievement, English Curriculum, English (Second Language)
Spellerberg, Stine Marie – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
This study focuses on metalinguistic awareness (MLA) and its relation to academic achievement for mono-, bi- and multilingual adolescents in Denmark. While MLA is one of several cognitive measures positively related to bilingualism and bilingualism is associated with academic advantages, Danish bi-/multilingual pupils appear not to benefit from…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Monolingualism
Nguyen, Tuan Dinh; Cannata, Marisa; Miller, Jason – Grantee Submission, 2016
Recent theoretical conceptualizations of student engagement have raised questions about how to measure student engagement and how engagement varies not only across schools, but also within school and within classrooms. The authors build on existing research on student behavioral engagement and extend this research to emphasize a continuum of…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Interaction, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship
Jurges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Senkbeil, Martin; Carstensen, Claus H. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
In this paper, we use data from the German PISA 2003 sample to study the effects of central exit examinations on student performance and student attitudes. Unlike earlier studies we use (i) a value-added measure to pin down the effect of central exit exams on learning in the last year before the exam and (ii) separate test scores for mathematical…
Descriptors: Exit Examinations, Learning, Student Attitudes, Numeracy
Gill, Tim – Cambridge Assessment, 2014
This report looks at the uptake of General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) (and International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE)) subjects in England in 2013. Reports on GCSE uptake have been produced by Cambridge Assessment every year since 2010. This is the first year that IGCSEs have been included in the data for the…
Descriptors: Exit Examinations, Secondary School Students, College Entrance Examinations, Foreign Countries
Cornish, Carlene – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
Raising of Participation Age (RPA) legislation mandates English youth to participate in post-16 education, employment or training. However, how does this particular college accommodate youth that were so-called disaffected learners and previously not in education, employment and training (NEET)? The aim was to investigate the educational…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Focus Groups, Observation, Semi Structured Interviews
Tabatadze, Shalva – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2017
This article explores the issue of minority education in the nation of Georgia, and this research aims to identify the reasons for minority educational problems. The results of school exit exams, literacy research studies, and the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment were used to highlight the differences in educational achievements…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Access to Education, Equal Education, Achievement Tests
Jimerson, Shane R.; Patterson, Mary Skokut; Stein, Rachel; Babcock, Sarah K. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2016
As of 2014, 24 states require students to pass exit exams to graduate from high school. In California, all high school students are required to pass the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE) to earn a diploma. Failure to pass the CAHSEE is linked with school dropout, which is associated with many deleterious outcomes and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Hispanic American Students, English Language Learners, Regression (Statistics)
Davies, Dan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
In Nepal, the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) assessment taken by 16-year-olds at the end of Grade 10 of formal schooling performs a similar function to the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination in England in that it summarises individual, school, district and national achievement and acts as a filtering mechanism to the…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Comparative Education, Government Employees, Ethnic Groups
Murphy, Roger – Oxford Review of Education, 2013
This paper explores the media coverage of UK national examination results. Utilising the findings from a previous Economic and Social Research Council-funded investigation into the media coverage of the release of General Certificate of Secondary Education and Advanced-level General Certificate of Education results, the paper builds on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mass Media Role, Mass Media Effects, Educational Assessment
Maag Merki, Katharina; Holmeier, Monika – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
A goal in many countries is to institute state-wide exams to base student assessment more firmly on norms for all classes. This raises the question as to the extent to which greater standardization of grading practice can be reached by implementing state-wide exit exams. Since there is a lack of longitudinal studies, we analyzed the effect of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Exit Examinations, Longitudinal Studies
Stern, Jonathan M. B. – Journal of School Choice, 2015
This study uses a comprehensive dataset on secondary school students in Brazil to examine the impact of private school enrollment on educational attainment in São Paulo. The results show that private school students (across all levels of tuition) perform better than their public school counterparts on Brazil's high school exit exam, even after…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
