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Who Participates? Predicting Student Self-Selection into a Developmental Year in Secondary Education
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Direct linkClerkin, Aidan – Educational Psychology, 2018
This study identifies student characteristics that predict participation in Transition Year, an optional developmental year (Grade 10) offered midway through secondary education in Ireland. One thousand eighty five students (51% female; mean age = 15.4 years) completed a questionnaire in Grade 9, providing information on demographic, attitudinal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Secondary School Students, Grade 9
Dooley, T. Price; Schreckhise, William D. – Youth & Society, 2016
This study evaluates the Youth Development Program (YDP), a component of the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA). We examine whether the YDP reduced dropout rates among youth in secondary schools in seven school districts in the impoverished Mississippi River Delta in southeast Arkansas. Initially, the program seems to have an impact. Students…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Comparative Analysis
Pomplun, Mark R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2009
This study investigated convergent validity evidence for student growth scores with high school course grades. The Measures of Academic Progress and Educational Planning and Assessment System growth scores for approximately 1,800 ninth-grade students over 2 years were related to language, arts, and mathematics course grades for developmental,…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement, Validity
Download full textBurley, Hansel; Butner, Bonita; Anderson, Connie Wilson; Siwatu, Kamau Oginga – NADE Digest, 2009
This study used the National Educational Longitudinal Study: 88 /2000 (NELS 88: /2000) dataset to explore characteristics associated with college degree attainment. The study was informed by Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior. The sample size was 6,832 postsecondary students. The findings revealed that developmental math students were less…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, National Surveys, College Graduates, Academic Degrees
Durik, Amanda M.; Vida, Mina; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
This study examines how competence beliefs and task values predict high school achievement choices related to literacy. Students' task beliefs (self-concept of ability, intrinsic value, and importance) about reading in the 4th grade and English in the 10th grade were tracked over time. Task beliefs, school performance, and gender were used to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Predictor Variables, Student Attitudes, Recreational Reading
