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Lance, Keith Curry – School Library Media Annual (SLMA), 1994
Reports on a study that provides evidence of the positive impact of library media centers on academic achievement in 221 Colorado public schools during the 1988-89 school year. The importance of library media expenditures in making staff and collections available and the library media specialist's instructional role are verified. (two references)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers
Han, Lei; Hoover, H. D. – 1994
National standardization data were used to reexamine the evidence of gender differences in achievement test scores reported in previous studies. Changes in differences over time, from 1963 to 1992, were examined, as were differences across all grade and achievement levels. Subjects participated in Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), Iowa Tests of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Educational Trends
Download full textJakubowski, David; Ogletree, Earl J. – 1993
The effects of Chapter 1 (Education Consolidation and Improvement Act) reading pull-out programs on the reading achievement of participating students was studied for 30 fifth- and sixth-grade students from a Chicago (Illinois) elementary school serving a low socioeconomic neighborhood with a minority enrollment of 99 percent. Fifteen students had…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
