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Download or read book Measuring Success written by Jack Buckley and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once touted as the single best way to measure students from diverse backgrounds, schools, and experiences, standardized college admissions tests are now criticized for being hopelessly biased in favor of traditionally privileged groups. Out of this has emerged the test-optional movement that seeks to allow students to apply to schools without sitting through the rigors of the SAT. This book takes a step back and applies rigorous empirical measurements to these rival claims. Drawing upon the expertise of higher education researchers, admissions officers, enrollment managers, and policy professionals, this edited volume is among the first to investigate the research and policy implications of test-optional practices. It was conceived in response to the editors' frustration with the fragmented and incomplete state of the literature around the contemporary debate on college admissions testing. Many students, teachers, parents, policymakers--frankly, nearly anyone immediately outside the testing industry and college admissions--have little understanding of how admissions tests are used. This lack of transparency has often fueled beliefs that college assessments are biased, misused, or overused. Decades of research on various aspects of testing, such as the predictive validity of assessments, makes a compelling case for their value. But all-too-frequently researchers and admissions officers talk past one another instead of engaging substantively. This collection intends to remedy the situation by bringing these disparate voices together. This book is designed for provosts, enrollment managers, and college admissions officers seeking to strike the proper balance between uniformity and fairness"--
Book Synopsis High School Predictors of College Readiness by : Deborah Jonas
Download or read book High School Predictors of College Readiness written by Deborah Jonas and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, the Virginia Board of Education directed the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) to study academic indicators that are associated with high school students' successful preparation for college and careers. VDOE then embarked on a multi-year effort to identify available data sources and conduct research on high school indicators that are associated with enrollment and success in credit-bearing courses in college. VDOE's initial studies, using data from the National Student Clearinghouse, focused on high school academic preparation indicators that predict whether a student will enroll in a four-year college in Virginia or elsewhere in the U.S. The research conducted as part of this project assessed the association between high school academic indicators and student success upon enrollment in a two- or four-year institution of higher education (IHE) in Virginia. Success in higher education was defined by three indicators: (1) enrolling directly into credit-bearing English and mathematics courses in the student's first year of college; (2) earning a grade of C or better in the student's first credit-bearing course in English or mathematics; and (3) persistence into the second year of college at the same institution. An earlier report described the association between high school academic indicators--particularly Virginia's end-of-course reading and Algebra I state Standards of Learning (SOL) scores and type of diploma earned--and the probability that students would enroll in credit-bearing English or mathematics courses and would persist into the second year at the same institution. This report addresses the remaining higher education success indicator: whether students earned a C or better in their first credit-bearing course in English or mathematics. In this study, students who enrolled in developmental English or mathematics courses or who earned a grade lower than C in their first credit-bearing course were counted as not successful in their first year of college. Students who did not enroll in any course in mathematics or English were not included in the analysis. The high school academic indicators examined included SOL test scores in mathematics and English--with an emphasis on Algebra II and writing--and type of diploma earned (Standard or Advanced Studies). This report, the second in a two-part series, addresses the following two research questions: (1) To what extent were better prepared students more likely to enroll directly into credit-bearing English or mathematics courses and earn a grade of C or better?; and (2) To what extent did better high school academic preparation close gaps in students' likelihood of enrolling directly into credit-bearing courses and earning a grade of C or better? (Contains 11 figures and 5 footnotes.
Book Synopsis High School Predictors of College Completion by : Adam Kenz
Download or read book High School Predictors of College Completion written by Adam Kenz and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The On-track Indicator as a Predictor of High School Graduation by : Elaine Marie Allensworth
Download or read book The On-track Indicator as a Predictor of High School Graduation written by Elaine Marie Allensworth and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Year Of High School Is A Critical Transition Period For Students, Those Who Succeed In Their First Year Are More Likely To Continue To Do well in The Following Years And Eventually Graduate. Because A Successful Transition Into High School Is So Important, In 1999 The Consortion Developed An Indicator To Gauge Whether Students Make Sufficient Progress In Their Freshman Year Of High School To Be On-Track To Graduate Within Four Years. The Evidence Presented Here Suggests That the On-Track Indicator Can Be A Valuable Tool For Parents, Schools, And The School System As They Work To Improve Students Likelihood Of Graduating.
Book Synopsis Rethinking the SAT by : Rebecca Zwick
Download or read book Rethinking the SAT written by Rebecca Zwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the SAT is a unique presentation of the latest thoughts and research findings of key individuals in the world of college admissions, including the president of the largest public university system in the U.S., as well as the presidents of the two companies that sponsor college admissions tests in the U.S. The contributors address not only the pros and cons of the SAT itself, but the broader question of who should go to college in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The Testing Charade by : Daniel Koretz
Download or read book The Testing Charade written by Daniel Koretz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's leading expert in educational testing and measurement openly names the failures caused by today's testing policies and provides a blueprint for doing better. 6 x 9.
Book Synopsis Crossing the Finish Line by : William G. Bowen
Download or read book Crossing the Finish Line written by William G. Bowen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why so many of America's public university students are not graduating—and what to do about it The United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities. And yet less than 60 percent of the students entering American universities today are graduating. Why is this happening, and what can be done? Crossing the Finish Line provides the most detailed exploration ever of college completion at America's public universities. This groundbreaking book sheds light on such serious issues as dropout rates linked to race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Probing graduation rates at twenty-one flagship public universities and four statewide systems of public higher education, the authors focus on the progress of students in the entering class of 1999—from entry to graduation, transfer, or withdrawal. They examine the effects of parental education, family income, race and gender, high school grades, test scores, financial aid, and characteristics of universities attended (especially their selectivity). The conclusions are compelling: minority students and students from poor families have markedly lower graduation rates—and take longer to earn degrees—even when other variables are taken into account. Noting the strong performance of transfer students and the effects of financial constraints on student retention, the authors call for improved transfer and financial aid policies, and suggest ways of improving the sorting processes that match students to institutions. An outstanding combination of evidence and analysis, Crossing the Finish Line should be read by everyone who cares about the nation's higher education system.
Book Synopsis The Rise of Women by : Thomas A. DiPrete
Download or read book The Rise of Women written by Thomas A. DiPrete and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While powerful gender inequalities remain in American society, women have made substantial gains and now largely surpass men in one crucial arena: education. Women now outperform men academically at all levels of school, and are more likely to obtain college degrees and enroll in graduate school. What accounts for this enormous reversal in the gender education gap? In The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American Schools, Thomas DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann provide a detailed and accessible account of women’s educational advantage and suggest new strategies to improve schooling outcomes for both boys and girls. The Rise of Women opens with a masterful overview of the broader societal changes that accompanied the change in gender trends in higher education. The rise of egalitarian gender norms and a growing demand for college-educated workers allowed more women to enroll in colleges and universities nationwide. As this shift occurred, women quickly reversed the historical male advantage in education. By 2010, young women in their mid-twenties surpassed their male counterparts in earning college degrees by more than eight percentage points. The authors, however, reveal an important exception: While women have achieved parity in fields such as medicine and the law, they lag far behind men in engineering and physical science degrees. To explain these trends, The Rise of Women charts the performance of boys and girls over the course of their schooling. At each stage in the education process, they consider the gender-specific impact of factors such as families, schools, peers, race and class. Important differences emerge as early as kindergarten, where girls show higher levels of essential learning skills such as persistence and self-control. Girls also derive more intrinsic gratification from performing well on a day-to-day basis, a crucial advantage in the learning process. By contrast, boys must often navigate a conflict between their emerging masculine identity and a strong attachment to school. Families and peers play a crucial role at this juncture. The authors show the gender gap in educational attainment between children in the same families tends to be lower when the father is present and more highly educated. A strong academic climate, both among friends and at home, also tends to erode stereotypes that disconnect academic prowess and a healthy, masculine identity. Similarly, high schools with strong science curricula reduce the power of gender stereotypes concerning science and technology and encourage girls to major in scientific fields. As the value of a highly skilled workforce continues to grow, The Rise of Women argues that understanding the source and extent of the gender gap in higher education is essential to improving our schools and the economy. With its rigorous data and clear recommendations, this volume illuminates new ground for future education policies and research.
Author :Elaine Allensworth Publisher :Consortium on Chicago School Research ISBN 13 :9780989799454 Total Pages :138 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (994 download)
Book Synopsis Looking Forward to High School and College by : Elaine Allensworth
Download or read book Looking Forward to High School and College written by Elaine Allensworth and published by Consortium on Chicago School Research. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grades and attendance-not test scores-are the middle grade factors most strongly connected with both high school and college success. In fact, grades and attendance matter more than test scores, race, poverty, or other background characteristics for later academic success. This report follows approximately 20,000 Chicago Public Schools students as they transition from elementary to high school. It is designed to help answer questions about which markers should be used to gauge whether students are ready to succeed in high school and beyond. It also considers the performance levels students need to reach in middle school to have a reasonable chance of succeeding in high school.
Book Synopsis High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates by : National Academy of Education
Download or read book High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates written by National Academy of Education and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-04-17 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High school graduation and dropout rates have long been used as indicators of educational system productivity and effectiveness and of social and economic well being. While determining these rates may seem like a straightforward task, their calculation is in fact quite complicated. How does one count a student who leaves a regular high school but later completes a GED? How does one count a student who spends most of his/her high school years at one school and then transfers to another? If the student graduates, which school should receive credit? If the student drops out, which school should take responsibility? High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates addresses these issues and to examine (1) the strengths, limitations, accuracy, and utility of the available dropout and completion measures; (2) the state of the art with respect to longitudinal data systems; and (3) ways that dropout and completion rates can be used to improve policy and practice.
Download or read book Completing College written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The report examines retention and degree attainment of 210,056 first-time, full-time students at 356 four-year non-profit institutions, using a combination of CIRP (Cooperative Institutional Research Program) Freshman Survey data and student graduation data from the National Student Clearinghouse"--Publisher's web site.
Author :Elaine M. Allensworth Publisher :Consortium on Chicago School Research ISBN 13 :9780997507386 Total Pages :36 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (73 download)
Book Synopsis High School Graduation and College Readiness Indicator Systems by : Elaine M. Allensworth
Download or read book High School Graduation and College Readiness Indicator Systems written by Elaine M. Allensworth and published by Consortium on Chicago School Research. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In districts across the country, school practitioners rely on early warning indicator systems (EWI) to identify students in need of support to graduate high school and be prepared for college. By organizing pieces of data on student performance into indicators, practitioners can develop and test school strategies to improve students' educational attainment with data that are readily available, making indicator systems a potentially powerful tool for supporting student outcomes. While the use of indicators for reaching school and district goals around students' educational attainment has been widely embraced, it is not always clear how to do so in ways that will lead to better educational attainment for students. Questions about how to use indicator systems effectively generally focus on: 1) How are indicators used to improve high school and college graduation rates, and 2) Which indicators should be the focus of an early warning or college readiness indicator system? These questions are intertwined. Decisions about which indicators are the best indicators to use depend on how they are being used, and questions about how to use indicators depend on the choice of indicators. This paper provides a brief overview of the current state of the use of indicators for improving students' educational attainment, considerations about which indicators to use when developing an indicator system, and some of the questions that have arisen as schools, districts, and states engage in these efforts. It is intended for people who are positioned between the research and practice spheres, such as district and state institutional researchers, or researchers at universities and research organizations who work closely with schools and districts. It may also be of interest to school and district administrators with a strong interest in developing and refining high school graduation and college readiness indicator systems, and an interest in the data and research behind such systems.
Book Synopsis High School Predictors of College Readiness by : Marshall Garland
Download or read book High School Predictors of College Readiness written by Marshall Garland and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, the Virginia Board of Education directed the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) to study academic indicators that are associated with high school students' successful preparation for college and careers. VDOE then embarked on a multi-year effort to identify available data sources and conduct research on high school indicators that are associated with enrollment and success in credit-bearing courses in college. VDOE's initial studies linked high school indicators with students' enrollment in four-year colleges and universities across the country that was acquired from the National Student Clearinghouse. This report is the first in a two-part series connecting high school program and outcomes data to course enrollment, grades, and persistence in Virginia's two- and four-year institutions of higher education (IHE). This first report addresses the following questions: (1) How did students who enroll in Virginia two- and four-year colleges differ from those with no record of enrollment in a Virginia college?; (2) To what extent were better prepared students less likely to enroll in developmental courses?; (3) To what extent did better high school academic preparation close income and ethnic gaps in student enrollment in developmental courses?; (4) To what extent were better prepared students more likely to persist into their second year in the Virginia higher education institution in which they enrolled in the first year?; and (5) To what extent did better high school preparation close income and ethnic gaps in second-year persistence? Following a brief description of the high school and higher education data files used in the analysis, the remaining sections of this report address each of these five questions. Throughout the report, the authors present both descriptive statistics that compare higher education outcomes for different groups of students, and results from statistical analyses that estimate the incremental association between a given high school variable and higher education outcomes after controlling for other variables. Appended are: (1) Match Procedure and Diagrams; (2) Technical Material for Multivariate Analyses Section; (3) Multivariate Logistic Regression Estimates for Research Objective I; (4) Multivariate Logistic Regression Estimates for Research Objective II; (5) Predictive Accuracy of the Algebra I and Algebra II SOL: Classification Table Results; and (6) References. (Contains 8 tables, 25 figures and 22 footnotes.).
Book Synopsis Expanding Opportunity in Higher Education by : Patricia Gándara
Download or read book Expanding Opportunity in Higher Education written by Patricia Gándara and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dream of public higher education in America is to provide opportunity for many and to offer transformative help to American communities and the economy. Expanding Opportunity in Higher Education explores the massive challenges facing California and the nation in realizing this goal during a time of enormous demographic change. The immediate focus on California is particularly appropriate given the size of the state—it educates one out of every nine students in the country—and its checkered political record with respect to civil rights and educational inequities. The book includes essays not only by academics looking at the state's educational system as a whole, but also by those within the policy system who are trying to keep it going in difficult times. The contributors show that the destiny of California, and the nation, rests on the courage of policymakers, both within the universities and within the government, to move aggressively to reclaim the hope of millions of students who can make enormous contributions to this society if only given the chance.
Book Synopsis The Toolbox Revisited by : Clifford Adelman
Download or read book The Toolbox Revisited written by Clifford Adelman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Toolbox Revisited is a data essay that follows a nationally representative cohort of students from high school into postsecondary education, and asks what aspects of their formal schooling contribute to completing a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s. The universe of students is confined to those who attended a four-year college at any time, thus including students who started out in other types of institutions, particularly community colleges.
Book Synopsis Unpacking College Readiness: An Investigation of the Predictors of Postsecondary Success Among First-Time Freshmen Through Structural Equation Modeling by : Terri Marie Iler
Download or read book Unpacking College Readiness: An Investigation of the Predictors of Postsecondary Success Among First-Time Freshmen Through Structural Equation Modeling written by Terri Marie Iler and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite increases in college enrollment nationally, student postsecondary outcome data are less impressive. Among the root causes identified in the research as contributing to prolonged time-to-degree and low graduation rates lies a core problem: students are un- or under-prepared for college. College completion data also speak towards an undercurrent of inequality, as the higher education sector remains stratified along racial and socioeconomic lines. This study centered on the interrelationships between multiple "college readiness" factors and the complex process by which they collectively influenced college success. While the construct of college readiness tends to be conceived as a conglomerate of abilities and knowledge that are universally needed by all students, I strove to explore the ways predictors of postsecondary success vary by student group (i.e., sex and race) and field of study. In this study, I sought to unpack college readiness through the investigation of the interrelationships between the contexts, dispositions, and habits of incoming first-time freshmen (FTF) and their long-term postsecondary outcomes. As I investigated multiple independent and dependent variables, I employed structural equation modeling (SEM). SEM was particularly well suited to the exploration of this complex phenomenon as it allowed me to specify a number of measurement models - each with multiple indicators - in my analysis of variable relationships, which cannot be performed through traditional regression analysis. To achieve my study aims, I partnered with California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), and utilized a dataset for the Fall 2008 incoming FTF cohort (N = 1793). Data culled from the students' responses on the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Freshman Survey were merged with postsecondary outcome variables to allow for a longitudinal analysis of students' multiple-year trajectories at the University. Overall, among the 2008 FTF cohort at CSULB, contextual affordances of students' pre-college environments (i.e., their communities, schools, and families) exerted influence on their academic and standardized test performance in high school. In addition to the impacts of context, the frequency with which students engaged in productive habits of mind positively influenced their high school performance. In turn, traditional academic preparedness metrics impacted students' formation of their academic self-efficacy as well as their expectations of future performance in college. While academic self-efficacy ratings and performance expectations were relatively high for this incoming cohort, these factors were not significant predictors of students' eventual postsecondary performance and culmination. Instead, measures of academic preparedness appeared to be the most salient. Furthermore, an investigation of these interrelationships across student groups (i.e., sex, race, and major) revealed both commonality and divergence; however, further analysis should be conducted to parcel out the ways college readiness takes shape at the nexus of sex, race, and major. Ultimately, findings from this study can provide K-12 and higher education institutions (particularly large, public four-year universities) a more nuanced understanding of the complex inner workings of college readiness indicators and their varying impacts on students' postsecondary success. These findings can also empower educators in their efforts to more seamlessly prepare and support students as they progress along the K-16 continuum, so students are better positioned to succeed in college.
Book Synopsis Helping Children Succeed by : Paul Tough
Download or read book Helping Children Succeed written by Paul Tough and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his international bestseller How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control and conscientiousness play a critical role in children’s success. Now, in Helping Children Succeed, he outlines the practical steps that adults – from parents and teachers to policymakers and philanthropists – can take to improve the chances of every child, however adverse their circumstances. And he mines the latest research in psychology and neuroscience to show how creating the right environments, both at home and at school, can instil personal qualities vital for future success.
