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Crawford, Brittany F.; Snyder, Kate E.; Adelson, Jill L. – High Ability Studies, 2020
For the past several decades, issues such as underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minority students in gifted programming, as well as the widening of the existing achievement gap between specific minority and majority groups have persisted. The majority of gifted education researchers studying underrepresentation in gifted programming focus on…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Gifted, Minority Group Students, Ethnic Groups
Ngoma, Sylvester – Online Submission, 2010
There is growing recognition that an electronic Student Information System (SIS) affects student learning. Given the strategic importance of SIS in supporting school administration and enhancing student performance, school districts are increasingly interested in acquiring the most effective and efficient Student Information Systems for their…
Descriptors: School Administration, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Student Records
Pivot Learning Partners, 2012
Situated in the heart of the fertile San Joaquin Valley twenty miles north of Fresno, the city of Madera has a population of 56,710 people. Agriculture is the driving force behind the local economy; the area produces more than 100 crops including raisin grapes, almonds, figs, pistachios, alfalfa, corn, milk, cattle and poultry. The total value of…
Descriptors: Poverty, Program Improvement, Standardized Tests, Population Growth
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Laundra, Kenneth; Sutton, Tracy – Teaching Sociology, 2008
Measuring student intelligence has been problematic in the United States since standardized testing first began in the early 1900s. The omnipresence of standardized testing in student populations is illustrated by the most popular contemporary tests which are used by some scholars to advance the notion that intelligence differences between whites…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Intelligence Quotient, Test Bias
Institute for Services to Education, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1980
A guide to the implementation of the Entry Level Skills Program (ELSP) and a conceptual framework for evaluation research is presented. Attention is directed to strategies for the attainment of goals and management of the ELSP project, which is a developmental program for freshmen students who have not acquired the full range or level of cognitive…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Criterion Referenced Tests, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Research
Gordon, Jean – 1993
The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) commissioned 12 experts in the vocational training (VT) systems of the individual member states of the European Community (EC) to develop monographs describing the EC members' VT systems and procedures/systems for certifying vocational qualifications. The 12 national studies…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education), Comparative Analysis