This paper uses 10 years of enrollment data at four Texas public universities to examine whether, to what extent, and in what ways high school attended contributes to racial and ethnic differences in college achievement. Like previous studies, we show that controlling for observable pre-college achievement variables (e.g. test scores, class rank) shrinks, but does not eliminate, sizable racial ...

Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Effect of Class Size on Achievement in Norway Using a comprehensive administrative database we exploit independent quasi-experimental methods to estimate the effect of class size on student achievement in Norway. The first method is based on a maximum class size rule in the spirit Angrist and Lavy (1999). The second method exploits population variation as fir...

The present study’s aim is to identify whether class participation a significant predictor of English language achievement among university students and their views concerning academic achievement. A sequential mixed method design was applied total 2013 (813 female 40.3%; 1200 male, 59.7%) participated in the quantitative portion study. Course Participation Grade (CPG) criteria Proficiency Exam...

Possible predictors of reported lower cognitive functioning in irradiated children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were investigated. Thirty-four subjects, 5-14 years old, with ALL in continuous complete remission and without evidence of current or past central nervous system disease, were examined 9-110 months after diagnosis, using standard measures of intelligence and academic achiev...

OBJECTIVE This study investigates the effect of social and token economy reinforcements on academic achievement of 9th grade boy students with intellectual disabilities in an experimental science class in Tehran Province. METHOD The method used for this study was experimental by pre-test, post- test with a control group. The boy students with intellectual disabilities from three junior high s...