Private schools and student learning achievements in Kenya

Private school “effects” on student achievement in Australian schools

This paper examines the impact of the type of school (public or private) an individual attends on two dimensions Australian parents indicate are important in school choice: student attitudes and achievement. It exploits longitudinal data that captures individuals who change high schools to estimate how much of the apparent gaps in attitudes and achievement between students who attend different ...

Representing Student Achievements in Science

In what follows, we develop a conceptual argument for expanding current visions of performance assessment to include the following three ideals: that performance/assessment addresses the value-laden decisions about what and whose science is learned and assessed and include multiple worldviews, that performance/assessment in science simultaneously emerges in response to local needs, and that the...

Mining Web-based Educational Systems to Predict Student Learning Achievements

— Educational Data Mining (EDM) is getting great importance as a new interdisciplinary research field related to some other areas. It is directly connected with Web-based Educational Systems (WBES) and Data Mining (DM, a fundamental part of Knowledge Discovery in Databases). The former defines the context: WBES store and manage huge amounts of data. Such data are increasingly growing and they c...

Artificial Intelligence Tools for Student Learning Assessment in Professional Schools

The necessity to maximize the learning success of the students as well as to produce professionals with the right skills to fulfil the market requirements, raises the question of closely following and assessing the learning paths of the students of Professional Schools. To solve at once problems and difficulties that arise during the learning process, we need to develop technologies and tools t...

Magnet Schools and Student Achievement