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Robert Schwarzhaupt; Krissy Zeiser; Kyle Neering; Sara Mitchell; Mengli Song – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: Early Colleges (ECs) are a type of rapidly growing dual enrollment program proven to be successful in helping underrepresented students get a jumpstart on their postsecondary education. To date, the most rigorous evidence on the impact of ECs has come from two lottery-based natural experiments conducted by the SERVE Center (Edmunds et…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dual Enrollment, Advanced Courses, Advanced Placement
Steiger, Jessica; Fink, John; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
Research shows that earning college credit while in high school increases students' chances of going to college directly after high school and of earning a college credential. Research also makes clear, however, that access to early postsecondary opportunities is uneven, with lower rates of participation among students of color, those from…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disproportionate Representation, College Credits, Dual Enrollment
Sönmez, Görsev; Gürkan, Burcu; Aksoy, Nuri Can – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2021
IBEC program is an international certificate program aiming at educating in-service teachers to be IB teachers by offering them opportunities to improve the quality of their classroom teaching, increase their access to teaching jobs worldwide, interact with leading academics for research and publishing consultation, demonstrate their deep…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Development, Program Evaluation, Advanced Placement Programs
Olton-Weber, Sophia; Hess, Robyn; Ritchotte, Jennifer A. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2020
Gifted youth frequently experience perfectionism, which for some can affect their emotional well-being. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a 6-week mindfulness intervention for 42 middle school students who were identified as Gifted and Talented. Participants' levels of self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism, as well as their…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Expectation, Metacognition, Intervention
Anna Rosefsky Saavedra; Ying Liu; Shira Korn Haderlein; Amie Rapaport; Marshall Garland; Danial Hoepfner; Kari Lock Morgan; Alyssa Hu – Online Submission, 2021
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of Knowledge in Action (KIA) project-based learning (PBL) approach to Advanced Placement (AP) on students' AP examination performance. This study used a randomized controlled trial, with school-level randomization within five large and predominantly urban U.S. school districts, to compare the AP…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Advanced Placement Programs, Units of Study
Burnett, Alyson; Burkander, Paul – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2021
To expand participation in Advanced Placement (AP) courses, several District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) high schools have enacted a policy mandating that all students enroll in one or more AP courses. To promote quality instruction in AP courses, DCPS recommends regular teacher participation in the Advanced Placement Summer Institute (APSI)…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Public Schools, Urban Schools, High Schools
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2021
This document contains the appendixes for the full report, "Advanced Placement Participation, Staffing, and Staff Training in the District of Columbia Public Schools." The study examined students' AP exam taking and passing rates in schools that mandate AP course enrollment and in schools that do not, teacher participation in the…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Public Schools, Urban Schools, High Schools
Ponce, Juan; Intriago, Ruthy – Journal of Research in International Education, 2022
This study provides an evaluation of the impact of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme introduced in 2006 to 200 public schools in Ecuador. Using a combination of different methodologies in order to have a credible identification strategy, we find that the International Baccalaureate Diploma has a positive impact on academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Public Schools, Program Evaluation
Maddock, David R.; Torres, Leah C. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2021
The School District of Osceola County, Florida, invests heavily in the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, and as such, an evaluation of effects was conducted with a sample of 10 middle schools (12,325 students) and 7 high schools (18,886 students). Propensity matching was used to determine practical effects. Providing…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, High Schools, Program Effectiveness, Elective Courses
Beach, Paul; Zvoch, Keith; Thier, Michael – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
This study employed hierarchical piecewise growth modeling and two interrupted time series models to examine the effect of introducing an Advanced Placement (AP) school accountability incentive on AP access in Pennsylvania. Specifically, we examined whether adoption of an advanced course access accountability indicator was associated with an…
Descriptors: Accountability, Incentives, Advanced Placement Programs, Access to Education
Brown, Colin R.; Prendergast, Lindsay J. – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of implementing a unique and systematized version of curriculum planning and documenting across all levels of a Pre-K-Grade 12, US-curriculum, and international school in the Dominican Republic. Based on the Backwards by Design philosophy, cemented with a standards-based approach highlighting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Curriculum Development, Learning Activities
Houston Independent School District, 2021
As part of the program evaluation under the newly revised "Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/Talented Students" (Texas Education Agency, 2019), the Department of Research and Accountability conducted surveys of students, teachers, and parents to establish a baseline about perceptions of the G/T Program and collect formative…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent, Gifted Education, School Districts
Lew, Shim – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Multi/bilingual education has been found to have the potential to provide more equitable education for linguistic minority students; nevertheless, these students have not fully benefitted from it due to unequal power dynamics and English-dominant language ideologies. While bilingual programmes in secondary schools remain extremely rare in the US,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Multicultural Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Language Minorities
Chae, Nancy; Gray-Rice, Susanne P. – Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation, 2019
Although the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) recognizes the importance of school counselors, there is limited guidance about the expectations and roles of school counselors in serving the diverse needs of students in IB schools. With the IBO's movement toward a mission of "IB for All" to address equitable access to…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, School Counseling, School Counselors, Counselor Role
Rodriguez, Olga; Payares-Montoya, Daniel; Ugo, Iwunze; Gao, Niu – Public Policy Institute of California, 2023
Dual enrollment, which allows high school students to take college courses and earn college credits, is an important way to expand educational opportunities, improve economic mobility, and meet California's workforce needs (Education Commission of the States 2019). However, historically it has been accessible only to high-achieving students taking…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Access to Education, Higher Education, High School Students