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Direct linkOkpych, Nathanael J.; Courtney, Mark E. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2021
Youth who were in foster care as adolescents make up a small but highly vulnerable subpopulation of the college student body. This article analyzes secondary data collected from one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies of foster youth. The analytic sample includes 329 foster youth from three Midwestern states who attended college in the…
Descriptors: Barriers, Academic Persistence, Academic Degrees, College Students
Download full textZavitkovsky, Paul; Roarty, Denis; Swanson, Jason – Online Submission, 2016
This study clarifies achievement trends that occurred under NCLB and explains why NCLB reporting practices made those trends so hard to see. It concludes by describing important contributions that new PARCC exams can make and warns of new reporting problems that threaten to squander those contributions before they see the light of day.
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
Clark, Melissa; Rothstein, Jesse; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore – Economics of Education Review, 2009
Data from college admissions tests can provide a valuable measure of student achievement, but the non-representativeness of test-takers is an important concern. We examine selectivity bias in both state-level and school-level SAT and ACT averages. The degree of selectivity may differ importantly across and within schools, and across and within…
Descriptors: Graduation Requirements, College Entrance Examinations, College Admission, Achievement Tests
Brennan, Mervin M.; And Others – 1980
Presented is an overview of the 1979 Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress (IIEP) for eleventh-grade mathematics. The IIEP is a systematic effort by the Illinois State Board of Education to collect information on the educational achievement of Illinois students in certain areas and to make that information available to educational…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
