Reducing the Achievement Gap
Moving the goalposts: Education policy and 25 years of the Black/White achievement gap
... educational achievement have a decisive and immediate ...between achievement inequalities and periods when policy appears to take race equality more ...in reducing race ...
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Narrowing the achievement gap : what and how schools learn through involvement in the specialist schools achievement programme – Part 1
... A further example of how the school has promoted inclusion is the way it has reduced the number of students who become NEET (not in education, employment or training). This had increased to 13% but in 2008-2009 was ...
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The Achievement Gap: Effects of a Resilience-based After School Program on Indicators of Academic Achievement
... There may be other benefits of an after-school program, for example, reducing high-risk behaviors such as sexual activity, substance abuse, and school suspensions and expulsions. Many at-risk students are not ...
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Moving the goalposts : education policy and 25 years of the Black/White achievement gap
... educational achievement have a decisive and immediate ...between achievement inequalities and periods when policy appears to take race equality more ...in reducing race ...
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Academic Outcomes in Language-Dependent and Computation-Dependent Courses among Mathematics Education Students in a Nigerian University: Top-Achievers Still Best of both Extremes
... Several studies have substantially established the connection between English lan- guage proficiency and academic performance among different classes of learners (Henry, Nistor, & Baltes, 2014; Prendergast, Faulkner, ...
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Closing the achievement gap in mathematics: evidence from a remedial program in Mexico City
... grade gap between the treated and non-treated students seems then to decrease after the implementation of the ...performance gap between the two groups after 3 months of its ...
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Evolution And Persistence Of Students' Astronomy Career Interests: A Gender Study
... The often-used metaphor of a “leaky pipeline" illustrates a common trend in STEM education: for many STEM fields, student interest diminishes at every phase of their education, with an accelerated loss of female ...
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Exploring the complexity of policy enactment through stories: A sociomaterial informed study.
... achievement. Perhaps I need to take a step back and clarify what I said earlier. What I have been trying to convey throughout today’s presentation is that colonization is ongoing and continues to impact students ...
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Understanding the Body Paragraph: A Handbook for EFL Teachers & Students
... an achievement gap of two to three years in my student’s reading and math ...wide achievement gaps between ELLs and Native English speakers: 1) developmental English Language skills (Soto-Hinman, ...
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Attitudes and doping: a structural equation analysis of the relationship between athletes' attitudes, sport orientation and doping behaviour
... cific measure and not related to general individual achievement orientation. Goal orientation reflects an ori- entation to personal standards, regardless of the situation. Of the total 25 items, the ...
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Making 'better stem' happen: the role of the MaSciL project
... ‘Moderating regularly in small manageable chunks helps us to maintain a high profile for science, gives teachers confidence and means we have super evidence of children’s attainment’ (Subject Leader). This moderation has ...
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Creating A Model For High Impact Practices At A Large, Regional, Comprehensive University: A Case Study
... Student engagement in High Impact Practices (HIPs) has been gaining the attention of higher education leaders and researchers. When students are actively engaged in the learning process they report greater gains in ...
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Past Negative Time Perspective as a Predictor of Grade Point Average in Occupational Therapy Doctoral Students
... Academic Achievement Literature has shown a strong correlation between different time perspectives and academic achievement (Adelabu, 2007; Horstmanshof & Zimitat, 2007; Zimbardo & Boyd, ...academic ...
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Socioeconomic gaps in science achievement
... science achievement remained statistically significant in fifth grade after introducing measures of prior science, reading, and math skills into the models, although the magnitude of the associations between ...
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The Composition and Downward Vertical Transport of Particulate Phosphorus in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela
... Finley (1984) conducted research on teacher perceptions of tracking at a large suburban high school that served a diverse student population. At this high school there were four tracks for gifted, advanced, average, and ...
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Current Research and Classroom Practice: Toward More Inclusive Approaches to Literacy Development in Schools
... literacy gap‖ between boys and girls (especially for those concerned primarily with the results of test scores), it may be of help to examine the body of research and writing that has accrued in different ...
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A Method of Reducing Air-Gap Harmonic of Permanent Magnet Motor for Fitness CAR
... A novel surface mounted PMSM with interior PM bridge is proposed in this paper. Through the finite element simulation analysis of different structures and different angles of magnetization under the same angle of ...
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Securitizing British India: A New Framework of Analysis for the First Anglo Afghan War
... difference was not found to be significant (Batson, 2010; Jackson, 2006; Wilson, 2007). Each of these studies used different variations of t-tests to detect the differences in group means. These studies also focused ...
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Kozlowski_unc_0153D_15985.pdf
... Cultural Capital and Teacher Bias as Explanations for Racial Differences in Doing School In addition to this need for understanding what “doing school” effectively looks like, it is also important to understand why ...
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Thesis
... This issue of proper integration into one’s university may worsen when considering an African American student attending a predominately white institution (PWI). African American students at PWIs commonly experience ...
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