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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Student Test Scores"”.
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The Relationship Between Student Attitudes Toward Reading and Student Test Scores
<p>One hundred and thirty-four seventh grade students served as subjects to determine if a correlation existed between reading achievement and attitude toward reading. Of these students, fifty were randomly selected for data presentation. The Intermediate Reading Attitude Index and Georgia …
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The Relationship Between Teacher Attitudes Toward Standardized Testing and Student Test Scores
<p>Standardized testing in the public schools has an increasing impact on students, teachers, and administrators, yielding evaluative data which promise to become even more crucial to decision-making processes for all concerned. Also increasing are the negative attitudes of educators toward the …
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Increasing Trust and Teacher Voice in Order to Improve Teacher Evaluation in Chicago
… cycles of observation and feedback as well as student test scores to determine teacher evaluation scores. Teachers have expressed support for and trust in this teacher evaluation program, yet they have misgivings about the inclusion of standardized student test scores. An examination of best …
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Relationships Between Teacher Attendance and Student Scores on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program Achievement Test in East Tennessee.
… school years. Third, fourth, and fifth grade student test scores on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) Achievement test given in the spring of 2006, 2007, and 2008 were also examined. TCAP score data for this study were gathered electronically, with published data from the …
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The Societal Impacts of Private School Choice around the World
… effects on societal outcomes such as national test scores, student effort, and criminality may be less clear. After all, traditional public schools were created to ensure that children from diverse backgrounds became proper citizens. </p> <p>These three dissertation chapters empirically examine …
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An Investigation into the Effectiveness of High School Models of Instruction in English Language Arts for Exceptional Education Standard Diploma Students
… in English Language Arts (ELA) for Exceptional Student Education (ESE) students pursuing a standard diploma. The purpose was to compare self-contained and inclusion models within the framework of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), emphasizing Free and Appropriate Public …
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Prediction of Student Achievement in Georgia High Schools Based on Principal Competency as Defined by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards
… conducted a study of the prediction of student achievement in Georgia high schools based on principal competencies as defined by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards for School Leaders to determine to what extent principal competency, as determined by the …
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ADVANCING THE SCIENCE OF HIRING TEACHERS : AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
… the effect of teacher characteristics on student achievement as measured by the 2011 North Carolina End-of-Course English I exam. The purpose of this study is to identify teacher characteristics with a positive effect on student achievement as measured by North Carolina End-of-Course …
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Making a Difference: Measuring the Effectiveness of Mississippi Teacher Corps Teachers as Compared to Non-Mississippi Teacher Corps Teachers
… was a quantitative analysis of standardized test scores from the "Rural County School District" for school year 2009–2010. The analysis shothat there is no significant difference in mean test scores of students who are taught by MTC teachers as compared to non-MTC teachers but that, in both …
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Who Do Schools Really Serve?: Examining the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Access to School Resources Through LISREL
Access to quality school resources enhances student's educational experiences. Students taught by quality teachers benefit from their teachers' training and expertise, and students who participate in an enriched curriculum benefit from challenging material and coursework. This paper assesses …
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Essays on industrial organization economics
… on teacher qualifications (input quality) and student test scores (output quality) from 1983-2008. Results show that more restrictive licensing may lead first-year teachers of high input quality to opt out of the occupation. For teachers who remain in the occupation longer, stricter licensing …
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Single Gender Programming in a High School Setting: A program Evaluation Project.
… interconnected contexts as a means for improving student-learning gains. This research project investigates deeper into how student academic achievement can be enhanced and by so doing, reduce disciplinary problems or see if there is a correlation.</p> <p>The project analyzes student test scores …
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Advocating For A Parent And Community Engagement Policy In Chicago Public School District 299
… will have limited success in improving CPS students’ academic achievement because it does not provide the necessary direction, support, or resources to address the external factors that contribute to low student test scores. Instead, it only considers internal factors within an …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… that peer age plays a crucial role in shaping student outcomes in elementary school. In the first chapter, I build on this literature by highlighting that differences in developmental rates between boys and girls likely lead to varying theoretical effects of peer age based on gender. I find …
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The effects of the direct instruction with computer-assisted instruction in reading for students with learning disabilities
… Computer-assisted instruction to enhance the students' vocabulary learning; (b) to examine the effects of using the Direct Instruction Reading Mastery program in reading along with Computer-assisted instruction to enhance the students' reading comprehension; (c) to evaluate if students display …
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Using computer-assisted graphic organizers in algebra instruction to support high school students with learning disabilities
… instruction; 2) to compare the difference of student performance when hand-written and computer-assisted graphic organizers were used, and 3) to evaluate student attitude towards learning algebra when hand-written and computer-assisted graphic organizers were used. A total of eight high school …
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The Effects of the Toyota Production System on Student Academic Performance
Can schools use relevant data to enhance student test scores and teacher efficacy by using the Toyota Production System model? Components of this study evaluated fifth-grade student math Pennsylvania System of School Assessment scores, 4Sight Benchmark Assessment scores, and changes in teacher …
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Practitioner Research in Schools: Revealing the Efficacy Agency Cycle
<p>Years of high stakes testing and managerial directives to improve student test scores created a trend of teachers’ declining sense of efficacy and agency. Researchers have yet to examine the perceptions of teachers following requirements to improve student engagement and school climate in an …
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A Design and Implementation Plan for Professional Development and Curriculum Modules of Historical Literacy in the Social Studies Classroom
… literacy in order to help teachers fully engage students in learning historical literacy skills. Historical literacy is the ability to understand the importance of the source of a document, being able to close read a text, to place a source within its proper context, and to corroborate the …
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Mississippi Statewide Accountability System: A Measure Of Academic Attainment Or Other Factors
… Quality of Distribution Index which is based on student test scores. This research used the Quality of Distribution Index results from 148 public school districts from SY 2011-2012 as the dependent variable. Data was collected from reputable sources from SY 2011-2012 for twelve independent …
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