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Burzichelli, Claudia; Mackey, Philip E.; Bausmith, Jennifer – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2011
The current study replicates work of Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands. It describes dropout prevention programs in nine Mid-Atlantic Region (Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) school districts serving communities with populations of 24,742-107,250 (as of July 2008). All nine…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Mentors, Poverty, Dropout Programs
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Burzichelli, Claudia; Mackey, Philip E.; Bausmith, Jennifer – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2011
The current study replicates work of Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast and Islands. It describes dropout prevention programs in nine Mid-Atlantic Region (Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) school districts serving communities with populations of 24,742-107,250 (as of July 2008). All nine…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Mentors, Poverty, Dropout Programs
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Cahalan, Margaret W.; Ingels, Steven J.; Burns, Laura J.; Planty, Michael; Daniel, Bruce – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This report presents information on similarities and differences between U.S. high school sophomores as studied at three points in time over the past 22 years, with a focus on cohort demographics, academic programs and performance, extracurricular activities, life values, and educational/occupational aspirations. It provides an update to the…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Occupational Aspiration, Extracurricular Activities, High School Students
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Yazgan-Sag, Gonul; Argun, Ziya – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
This qualitative study examines the gifted students' self-reflections about the mathematical problems in an elaborated way. The participants of the study were three gifted students in 10th grade and 10 problem solving sessions were carried out with these participants. According to findings, the gifted students did not take into account the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Grade 10, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Abedalaziz, Nabeel; Leng, Chin Hai – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2013
Most of the tests and inventories used by counseling psychologists have been developed using CTT; IRT derives from what is called latent trait theory. A number of important differences exist between CTT- versus IRT-based approaches to both test development and evaluation, as well as the process of scoring the response profiles of individual…
Descriptors: Test Theory, Item Response Theory, Difficulty Level, Models
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Lin, Sandra Sim Phek; Samuel, Moses – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2013
This study examined the types of roles played by students during peer response sessions and investigated how the students' roles facilitated learning. This qualitative case study involved six Grade 10 mixed-proficiency level students from a secondary school in Malaysia. Data were collected through multiple sources. The findings indicated that the…
Descriptors: Student Role, Secondary School Students, Grade 10, Case Studies