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Access To And Success Within High Ability Tracks In Title I Schools: The International Baccalaureate, Melissa Gordon
Access To And Success Within High Ability Tracks In Title I Schools: The International Baccalaureate, Melissa Gordon
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With a growing number of low-income students in the United States, it is critical to address persistent gaps in educational attainment. This study examined the postsecondary enrollment rates of students in Title I schools offering high academic ability tracks such as the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) and explored access to these high ability tracks. Results indicate that the IBDP is available to low-income and minority students in Title I schools, although their participation rates were much lower than the participation rates of the average Title I student body. Nevertheless, once students participate in the IBDP, race/ethnicity and income appear …
Factor Invariance Of The Standard Achievement Admission Test By Gender And School Types, Mohammed Alqabbaa
Factor Invariance Of The Standard Achievement Admission Test By Gender And School Types, Mohammed Alqabbaa
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This study examined the factorial structure of the SAAT with exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Specifically, a CFA of a four-factor model (the hypothesized model) was tested to see if the model had good fit as well as a model generated from an EFA. The EFA showed that the SAAT test only measured two factors (biology and chemistry), not the four posited by the test developers. The CFA provided good fit to a two-factor model; however, a CFA showed that the hypothesized four-factor model also fit the data well and so the hypothesized model was selected …