"The impact of the National Commission on Excellence in Education's ""new basics"" on student performance in midwestern colleges and universities"

The present study was designed to examine the validity of the individual components of the theoretical framework adopted by the governing boards of higher education. The major research question focused on the relationships that exist between the academic performance of students who completed different quantities of a prescribed rigorous sequence of high school courses as measured by postsecondary grade point averages. In exploring the major research and subsidiary questions, a combination of transcript analysis and statistical calculations were performed on data from the Sophomore Cohort of the National Longitudinal Study of High School and Beyond. The sample consisted of students from the Midwest Census region.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Sherman, Barbara Joyce

Contributors dc:contributor

• Thurston, Paul W.

• Education, Curriculum and Instruction
• Education, Higher

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Sherman, Barbara Joyce

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9114410
(UMI)AAI9114410

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23189