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von der Embse, Nathaniel; Hasson, Ramzi – Preventing School Failure, 2012
With the enactment of standards-based accountability in education, high-stakes tests have become the dominant method for measuring school effectiveness and student achievement. Schools and educators are under increasing pressure to meet achievement standards. However, there are variables which may interfere with the authentic measurement of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, School Effectiveness, Accountability
Tobin, Tary J.; Vincent, Claudia G. – Preventing School Failure, 2011
The authors studied changes in disproportionate exclusion of African American students, compared with their White peers, in relation to implementation of Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support using data from 46 schools. They measured (a) exclusion through suspension and expulsion data collected with the Schoolwide Information System; (b) Schoolwide…
Descriptors: African American Students, Expulsion, Disproportionate Representation, Positive Reinforcement
Gordon Pershey, Monica – Preventing School Failure, 2011
This study measured self-perceptions of school competence among 263 4th- and 6th-grade African American students who attended an academically challenged school district. Self-perceptions of school competence are defined as self-perceptions of ability, confidence, and school satisfaction. Results indicated that 4th-grade students had lesser…
Descriptors: African American Students, Written Language, Reading Tests, Academic Achievement
Carter, Erik W.; Wehby, Joseph; Hughes, Carolyn; Johnson, Stephen M.; Plank, Don R.; Barton-Arwood, Sally M.; Lunsford, Lauren B. – Preventing School Failure, 2005
Recent policy initiatives promoting high-stakes testing for graduation present a significant challenge to practitioners charged with educating students with high-incidence disabilities. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of test-taking strategy instruction on the test performance of secondary students with high-incidence…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High Stakes Tests, Learning Disabilities, Educational Strategies
Green, Tonika Duran – Preventing School Failure, 2005
In this article, the author encourages the use of prevention and early intervention methods to prevent and reduce overrepresentation of African American students in the special education categories of mental retardation, emotional disturbance, and specific learning disability. The author discusses ways to adapt A. A. Ortiz's (2002) "Prevention of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Prevention, African American Students, Special Education
Somers, Cheryl L.; Piliawsky, Monte – Preventing School Failure, 2004
The purposes of this study were to evaluate a pilot, dropout prevention program designed to provide academic tutoring and supplemental enrichment to 9th graders and to examine additional data on adolescents' motivators and role models related to high school dropout and completion. The program targeted 9th graders because many adolescents decide to…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Program Evaluation, African American Students, Adolescents