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Fazlul, Ishtiaque; Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
Measures of student disadvantage--or risk--are critical components of equity-focused education policies. However, the risk measures used in contemporary policies have significant limitations, and despite continued advances in data infrastructure and analytic capacity, there has been little innovation in these measures for decades. We develop a new…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Prediction, Disadvantaged
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Diamond, Karen E.; Baroody, Alison E. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2013
Associations among children's writing and alphabetic skills were examined in a sample of 502 prekindergarten children who were at risk of academic failure because they came from poor families, spoke a language other than English at home, or had an identified disability. In this sample of children at risk of school failure, 16% had an identified…
Descriptors: Correlation, At Risk Students, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
Estrada, Karla V. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As the population of English Language Learners (ELLs) continues to grow in schools, so does the concern for their lack of academic progress and the possible inequitable representation of this culturally and linguistically diverse population in special education (Artiles, Rueda, Salazar, & Higareda, 2005; Guiberson, 2009; Mac Swan &…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities, Mixed Methods Research