Policy Implications of a Predictive Validity Study of the Specialized High School Admissions Test at Three Elite New York City High Schools By Jonathan Taylor Adviser: Dr. Herbert Saltzstein Although admission to New York City's elite public high schools has been controversial because of the disproportionate representation by ethnicity and gender of students admitted, there has been no research...

The relationship between creativity and academic achievement is investigated in this study to understand the nature of these relationships in the intelligence continuum among 497 Form Four Malaysian students. Intelligence was measured using Cattel’s Culture Fair Intelligence Tests and Creativity was measured using Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Four groups were formed based on creativity ...

This study investigated the effect of Computer Multimedia instruction on academic achievement of students. Eighty students studying in two sections of 7th class of “The Sunshine Sr. Sec. School, Rohtak” were used as subjects of the study. Multimedia Instruction was utilized in the experimental group while the traditional instruction method was used for the control group. This study utilized the...

Teacher effort, a critical component of education production, has been ignored in the literature due to measurement difficulties. I use a principal-agent model, data on NC public elementary schools, and the state’s unique accountability system that rewards teachers for year-over-year school-level academic growth, to distill effort from absence data and capture its effect on student achievement....

Among the contributing factors to learners’ performance, personality traits and levels of parents’ educa- tion have been taken into account in this research. Accordingly, 440 learners, mostly pre-intermediate and a small number of intermediate EFL learners with the age range of 18-25, studying atIAU East Tehran Branch participated in this study. They were asked to complete th...

BACKGROUND This ecological study examines the relationship between food desert prevalence and academic achievement at the school district level. DESIGN AND METHODS Sample included 232 suburban and urban school districts in New York State. Multiple open-source databases were merged to obtain: 4(th) grade science, English and math scores, school district demographic composition (NYS Report Card...

locus of control is said to affect learners' academic achievement. this effect has scarcely been examined within general english context. this study is concerned with examining the differences in general english (ge) course achievement among university students of humanities, sciences, and engineering. it also explores the effect of locus of control (loc) in ge course achievement among these th...

the present study investigated the effect of iranian university entrance examinations and the high school grade point average (hsgpa) on agriculture students' achievement. the population included 598 admitted students at the faculties of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran. the specific variables of the study included college grade point average (cgpa) and average of major f...