Publication Date
| In 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2023 | 0 |
| Since 2020 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2015 (last 10 years) | 1 |
| Since 2005 (last 20 years) | 5 |
Descriptor
Source
| Comparative Education Review | 1 |
| Congressional Research Service | 1 |
| International Reading… | 1 |
| RAND Corporation | 1 |
| School Library Research | 1 |
Author
| Adkins, Denice | 1 |
| Mathews, Samuel R., Ed. | 1 |
| Pandis, Meeli, Ed. | 1 |
| Skinner, Rebecca R. | 1 |
| Takayama, Keita | 1 |
| Ward, Angela, Ed. | 1 |
| Xia, Nailing | 1 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 2 |
| Books | 1 |
| Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
| Dissertations/Theses -… | 1 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
| Elementary Secondary Education | 2 |
| Adult Education | 1 |
| Elementary Education | 1 |
| Grade 4 | 1 |
| Grade 5 | 1 |
| Grade 8 | 1 |
| Intermediate Grades | 1 |
| Junior High Schools | 1 |
| Kindergarten | 1 |
| Middle Schools | 1 |
| Secondary Education | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Audience
| Policymakers | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
| Elementary and Secondary… | 1 |
| Elementary and Secondary… | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
| Program for International… | 5 |
| Early Childhood Longitudinal… | 1 |
| National Assessment of… | 1 |
| Progress in International… | 1 |
| Trends in International… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Download full textAdkins, Denice – School Library Research, 2014
This paper looks at results from the 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment to examine the effects of school libraries on students' test performance, with specific focus on the average of students' family wealth in a school. The paper documents students' school library use and students' home possessions to indicate how school…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Poverty, Family Income, Standardized Tests
Skinner, Rebecca R. – Congressional Research Service, 2018
Assessing the achievement of students in elementary and secondary schools and the nation's educational progress is fundamental to informing education policy approaches. Congressional interest in this area includes and extends beyond the annual assessments administered by states to comply with the educational accountability requirements of Title…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests
Direct linkXia, Nailing – RAND Corporation, 2010
There is considerable debate about the relative importance of family versus school factors in producing academic and nonacademic student outcomes, and whether and how their impacts vary across different student groups. In addition to critically reviewing and synthesizing earlier work, this study extends the literature by (a) using the ECLS-K, a…
Descriptors: Blacks, Whites, Asians, Latin Americans
Takayama, Keita – Comparative Education Review, 2010
Drawing on a critical theoretical paradigm and critically engaging with the externalization thesis that Gita Steiner-Khamsi and Jurgen Schriewer have developed, this article examines the politics of "Finnish education" in the ongoing Japanese education reform debate. More specifically, it examines the various discursive uses of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Politics of Education, Discourse Analysis, Change Strategies
Pandis, Meeli, Ed.; Ward, Angela, Ed.; Mathews, Samuel R., Ed. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2005
This collection of papers presented at the 13th European Conference on Reading brings together a vast range of knowledge, research, and perspectives about literacy and its complex processes. The book explores topics including: (1) Literacy and critical thinking; (2) Working with learners at all levels, from young children to adolescents to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Literacy Education, Reading Skills
