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Christopher A. Stockus – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research on the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) indicates that students evaluate themselves more favorably when they have high rank in low rank schools than low rank in high rank schools. In this integrated dissertation, I provide three empirical papers examining experiences and forecasts of this effect. BFLPE experiences refer to the impact…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Individual Development, Self Esteem, Student Attitudes
Marshall Wade – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Schools receive an annual letter grade that is made readily available for parent, community, teacher, and school district staff consumption. Victor Vroom's (1994) Expectancy-Value theory is used to further evaluate the importance that school rankings (via school letter grades) play in motivated teacher planning. Purposeful sampling was used to…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Motivation Techniques, Report Cards, Grades (Scholastic)
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Chanita C. Holmes; Marlon R. Tracey – Journal of Economic Education, 2025
Instructors may use low-cost, light-touch strategies to help students achieve optimal effort in demanding upper-level courses. The authors of this study exploit an intervention that provides a series of personalized feedback emails to students about their relative performance, which is tied to approving messages or tips that encourage improvement.…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Economics Education, Grades (Scholastic), Advanced Courses
Patricia Vorfeld – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Earning a college degree requires a standard measure of academic success. Institutionally, this measure is calculated in earned credits and cumulative grade point averages known together as satisfactory academic progress. This qualitative study explores the relationship of students' academic progress and their perceived sense of belonging after…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Residential Institutions, Group Membership, Interpersonal Relationship
Tobiloba Ojomu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Class ranking remains a prevalent practice in Nigerian primary and secondary schools, yet research has not explored how Nigerian students perceive and experience this practice. This study sought to address this gap in the literature by delving into four Nigerian primary and secondary school alumni's experiences and perceptions of the class ranking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Class Rank, Student Adjustment
Karen E. B. Elliott – ProQuest LLC, 2024
When the purpose and meaning of grades is not well-defined by an organization, there is a disconnect between curricular/assessment practices and student engagement. This study sought to investigate origins and find solutions in regards to discerning a student's knowledge and mastery of a subject and how this is reflected in the grade, and how…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Grading, Disclosure, Grades (Scholastic)
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Liu, Charles; Bruner, Justin; Ammigan, Ravichandran – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2022
In this paper, we examine how Success Training for Academic Resiliency (STAR) Lite, an advising intervention program, influenced undergraduate students to overcome academic probation into achieving good academic standing. We use descriptive quantitative methods to assess the impact of program participation for 194 undergraduate students on…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Probation, Academic Advising, Intervention
Murphy, Richard; Denning, Jeffrey T.; Weinhardt, Felix – Texas Education Research Center, 2021
This paper considers an unavoidable feature of the school environment, class rank. What are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? This research shows that students with a higher third grade academic rank, conditional on achievement and classroom effects, have higher subsequent test scores, are more likely to take…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement, Grade 3
Ronnie Semo; Emerick Chew; Kate Dowling; Cameron Forrest; Somayeh Parvazian – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2024
Students who perform well at school academically are more likely to complete Year 12 and experience smoother transitions from education to employment. However, disentangling the effects of prior academic achievement on later performance from other confounding factors, such as socioeconomic status, has proved difficult. This study uses data from…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Literacy
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Yukhymenko-Lescroart, Mariya A.; Sharma, Gitima – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
This study examined whether first-time full-time freshman students' sense of purpose predicted their progress towards a degree. Freshman students (N = 421, 62.2% females) completed self-report measures of sense of purpose and academic commitments within the first month of starting college; a year later, the data on first-year progress towards a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Time to Degree, Quality of Life, Goal Orientation
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Opstad, Leiv; Pettersen, Ivar – Educational Process: International Journal, 2022
Background/purpose: Home-based exams were introduced during COVID-19 with an open-book format and limited control over dishonest student behavior. Such exams were used in lieu of traditional, closed-book school-based exams as a necessity due to the pandemic. This article investigates whether or not students' grades from home-based assessment exams…
Descriptors: Home Study, Tests, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Wittman, Donald – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2022
I show that there are better measures of student college performance than grade point average (GPA) by undertaking a fine-grained empirical investigation of grading within a large public university. The value of using GPA as a measure of comparative performance is undermined by academically weaker students taking courses where the grading is more…
Descriptors: College Students, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
Williamson, Joanna; Vidal Rodeiro, Carmen – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2022
The transition from Key Stage 4 (KS4) to post-16 education marks a shift from a broad programme of study (around 8-10 subjects) to a narrower programme (usually 1-4 subjects). Within the constraints of course availability and entry criteria, students must make important choices. Students' post-16 pathways matter because different subjects as well…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Exit Examinations, Postsecondary Education, Foreign Countries
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Mabel, Zachary; Campbell, Kathryn Peltier – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2023
An expected national ban on the consideration of race in college admissions will threaten the racial and ethnic diversity of students at selective colleges unless these colleges fundamentally alter their admissions practices. This report finds that selective colleges barred from considering race and ethnicity in their admissions decisions may be…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Race, College Admission, Selective Admission
Roxy D. Glass – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study was designed to investigate whether teacher literacy content knowledge affects student achievement in Texas schools. Teacher participants from Texas public schools completed a three-part survey. In Parts 1 and 2, teachers completed a demographic section and teacher knowledge of foundational reading skills. The survey consisted of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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