Publication Date
In 2024 | 0 |
Since 2023 | 0 |
Since 2020 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2015 (last 10 years) | 0 |
Since 2005 (last 20 years) | 5 |
Descriptor
Source
Review of Research in… | 5 |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 5 |
Reports - Evaluative | 5 |
Education Level
Elementary Secondary Education | 5 |
Audience
Location
United Kingdom | 2 |
United States | 2 |
Japan | 1 |
Saudi Arabia | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
No Child Left Behind Act 2001 | 5 |
Brown v Board of Education | 1 |
Debra P v Turlington | 1 |
Elementary and Secondary… | 1 |
Equal Access | 1 |
Goals 2000 | 1 |
Individuals with Disabilities… | 1 |
Rose v Council for Better… | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
SAT (College Admission Test) | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Wiseman, Alexander W. – Review of Research in Education, 2010
In the past 150 years, educational systems have expanded and become integrally linked with economic, political, and social status in modern nation-states. As the stakes for education have risen, so has the call for more and improved use of scientific evidence as a basis for educational policymaking. Evidence from averaged scores on international…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Welner, Kevin – Review of Research in Education, 2010
The call for American students to meet world-class standards in the federal Goals 2000: Education America Act (1994) and No Child Left Behind legislation, as well as state standards and accountability legislation, has been explicitly inclusive: All students must be held to these high standards. Litigation offers the potential to leverage…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Standards, Academic Standards, Court Litigation
Jordan, Will J. – Review of Research in Education, 2010
Defining equity within the context of a diverse, multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual, and multicultural society, and one where social class strongly influences one's life chances is problematic. This chapter reexamines equity in an attempt to advance the discourse beyond the debate about strategies to close the achievement gap between White…
Descriptors: Social Class, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement
Sunderman, Gail L. – Review of Research in Education, 2010
This chapter is organized as follows. The first section examines the evolving state and federal role in education and the implications of an expanded federal role on the structure of the educational system. It pays particular attention to how the debate on the causes and solutions to school reform has shifted and the impact this has had on school…
Descriptors: Privatization, Civil Rights, Federal Legislation, Educational Finance
Wiliam, Dylan – Review of Research in Education, 2010
The idea that validity should be considered a property of inferences, rather than of assessments, has developed slowly over the past century. In early writings about the validity of educational assessments, validity was defined as a property of an assessment. The most common definition was that an assessment was valid to the extent that it…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Validity, Inferences, Construct Validity