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Hwang, NaYoung; Fitzpatrick, Brian – AERA Open, 2021
Scholars have examined the effects of same-gender teachers on student achievement, but the findings are mixed. In this study, we use 7 years of administrative data from students in elementary and middle schools (i.e., Grades 3 through 8) in Indiana to test links between gender matching and student achievement. We find that female teachers are…
Descriptors: Congruence (Psychology), Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
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Fitzpatrick, Brian R.; Berends, Mark; Ferrare, Joseph J.; Waddington, R. Joseph – Educational Researcher, 2020
As researchers continue to examine the growing number of charter schools in the United States, they have focused attention on the significant heterogeneity of charter effects on student achievement. Our article contributes to this agenda by examining the achievement effects of virtual charter schools vis-à-vis brick-and-mortar charters and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Characteristics, Charter Schools, Electronic Learning
Corey G. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2022
National, state, and local governmental authorities have researched and reported the impacts of poverty on academic performance for multiple decades, providing guidance, legislation, accountability, equal access initiatives, and continuous monitoring for educators to address the ongoing dilemma. However, poverty performance achievement gaps are…
Descriptors: Poverty, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Response to Intervention
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St. Clair, Travis; Hallberg, Kelly; Cook, Thomas D. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Researchers are increasingly using comparative interrupted time series (CITS) designs to estimate the effects of programs and policies when randomized controlled trials are not feasible. In a simple interrupted time series design, researchers compare the pre-treatment values of a treatment group time series to post-treatment values in order to…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Time, Randomized Controlled Trials, Comparative Analysis
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Tipton, Elizabeth; Hallberg, Kelly; Hedges, Larry V.; Chan, Wendy – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Policy-makers are frequently interested in understanding how effective a particular intervention may be for a specific (and often broad) population. In many fields, particularly education and social welfare, the ideal form of these evaluations is a large-scale randomized experiment. Recent research has highlighted that sites in these large-scale…
Descriptors: Generalization, Program Effectiveness, Sample Size, Computation
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Hodges, Jaret; McIntosh, Jason; Gentry, Marcia – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2017
High-potential students from low-income families are at an academic disadvantage compared with their more affluent peers. To address this issue, researchers have suggested novel approaches to mitigate gaps in student performance, including out-of-school enrichment programs. Longitudinal mixed effects modeling was used to analyze the growth of…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Enrichment Activities, Academic Achievement, High Achievement
Indiana State Dept. of Public Instruction, Indianapolis. – 1998
This booklet provides parents and students with answers to their questions about ISTEP+ (Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress-Plus), which measures tenth-grade student achievement in English/language arts and mathematics. After a letter from Suellen Reed, Indiana's Superintendent of Public Instruction, the booklet discusses what…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, English Curriculum, Grade 10