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Bettinger, Eric; Castleman, Benjamin; Choe, Alice; Mabel, Zachary – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Nearly half of students who enter college do not graduate. The majority of efforts to increase college completion have focused on supporting students before or soon after they enter college, yet many students drop out after making significant progress towards their degree. In this paper, we report results from a multi-year, large-scale…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, College Students, Withdrawal (Education), Public Colleges
Deeds, Carinne; Malter, Zachary – College and Career Readiness and Success Center, 2016
This "Ask the CCRS Center Brief" provides an overview of the accountability measures used by states and districts to assess the college and career readiness of students who are educated in alternative programs and schools (defined hereafter as "alternative settings"). Alternative settings are designed to serve at-risk students…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, College Readiness, Accountability, Nontraditional Education
Petscher, Yaacov; Zumeta Edmonds, Rebecca; Arden, Sarah; Weingarten, Zachary – American Institutes for Research, 2020
The purpose of this project evaluation was to assess the impact of data-based individualization (DBI) on the mathematics achievement of students with intensive mathematics learning needs, including students with disabilities. The evaluation study used a cluster randomized trial in which elementary schools were randomly assigned to treatment using…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Students with Disabilities, Student Needs, Program Effectiveness
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Sun, Min; Liu, Jing; Zhu, Junmeng; LeClair, Zachary – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019
Although program evaluations using rigorous quasi-experimental or experimental designs can inform decisions about whether to continue or terminate a given program, they often have limited ability to reveal the mechanisms by which complex interventions achieve their effects. To illuminate these mechanisms, this article analyzes novel text data from…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Strategic Planning, Program Evaluation, Measurement Techniques
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Meza, Elizabeth; Blume, Grant; Rubin, Zachary; Balhan, Krystle; Zumeta, William; Hang, Kendrick; Bragg, Debra D. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2021
Over the last ten years, in Washington community and technical colleges (CTC) there has been a great leap forward in access and use of data for setting and measuring goals, monitoring progress, and identifying equity gaps. Despite much progress, faculty members in career and technical education (CTE) programs still often have difficulty accessing…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, College Faculty, Data Use, Decision Making
Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Ventura, Sebastian, Ed. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The Second International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2009) was held at the University of Cordoba, Spain, on July 1-3, 2009. EDM brings together researchers from computer science, education, psychology, psychometrics, and statistics to analyze large data sets to answer educational research questions. The increase in instrumented…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries