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Nathan P. Helsabeck – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Assessing student achievement over multiple years is complicated by students' annual matriculation through different classrooms. The process of matriculation, or annual classroom change, threatens the validity of statistical inferences because it violates the independence of observations necessary in a regression context. The current study…
Descriptors: Growth Models, Academic Achievement, Student Promotion, Statistical Analysis
Franklin, Josette R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This quantitative research study analyzed archival data to determine if there was a significant difference in promotion rates from third to fourth grade between students in foster care who received one-to-one tutoring and those students in foster care who did not receive one-to-one tutoring over two school years. This study also analyzed student…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Foster Care, Tutoring, Statistical Analysis
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Endepohls-Ulpe, Martina – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2017
Introduction: In the last decades numerous measures and programs to promote gifted students have been developed worldwide. But in spite of these enhanced scientific and public efforts to improve gifted education, there are still a lot of difficulties to implement some of these measures in the daily routine of schools. The presented study examines…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Academically Gifted, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
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Shulruf, Boaz; Booth, Roger; Baker, Heather; Bagg, Warwick; Barrow, Mark – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
Decisions about progress through an academic programme are made by Boards of Examiners, on the basis of students' course assessments. For most students such pass/fail grading decisions are straightforward. However, for those students whose results are borderline (either at a pass/fail boundary or boundaries between grades) the exercise of some…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Decision Making, Student Promotion, Pass Fail Grading
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Haimei, Sui; Yingquan, Song – Chinese Education & Society, 2017
This article is based on tracking data of 7,411 first-year high school students from 106 secondary vocational schools in Zhejiang and Shaanxi Provinces from 2011 and 2012 and analyzes the impact of the experience of being left-behind on the exam behavior, dropout behavior, and willingness for promotion of secondary vocational school students. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Vocational Schools, Dropouts
Theobald, Roddy; Goldhaber, Dan; Gratz, Trevor; Holden, Kristian L. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2017
We use longitudinal data on all high school students in Washington State, including postsecondary education and workforce outcomes, to investigate predictors of intermediate and postsecondary outcomes for students with disabilities. We pay particular attention to career and technical education (CTE) enrollment and the extent of inclusion in…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Inclusion, Postsecondary Education, Outcomes of Education