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Effects Of Traditional High School Versus Career Academy High School On Literacy And Mathematics Achievement, Dana Brown
Effects Of Traditional High School Versus Career Academy High School On Literacy And Mathematics Achievement, Dana Brown
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The purpose of this dissertation was to determine the effects by gender and by socioeconomic status between students in career academy high schools versus students in traditional high schools on literacy and mathematics achievement for 8th-11th grade students in 6A and 7A high schools in the state of Arkansas. In the context of this study, relevance has to do with the connection or link established between something learned and an opportunity to apply that learning. Critics of the traditional learning structure argue that because information is learned in isolation, a difficulty arises in how that learning is readily applicable to …
School Size And Socioeconomic Status On Mathematics And Literacy Achievement For Students In Arkansas, Robert Childers
School Size And Socioeconomic Status On Mathematics And Literacy Achievement For Students In Arkansas, Robert Childers
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The purpose of this dissertation was to add to the limited available research concerning the effects of size of school and socioeconomic status (SES) on literacy and mathematics achievement for students in Grades 9 through 12 in Western and Northwestern Arkansas. Of the four high schools, two were larger 6A/7A schools, and two were smaller 3A/4A schools. In all four hypotheses, the independent variables were size of school and SES measured by lunch status. In the first hypothesis, the dependent variable was literacy achievement as measured by student performance on the 2012 End of Course (EOC) literacy examination. In the …