News tagged with student ratings
Gender bias found in student ratings of high school science teachers
A study of 18,000 biology, chemistry and physics students has uncovered notable gender bias in student ratings of high school science teachers.
Feb 02, 2009 |
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She's going back to school but can she read?
Five million students will return to Canadian schools this month. If nothing changes at least a million will fail to graduate high school.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Big racial gap in suspensions of middle school students, study shows
A new study by education researchers Daniel J. Losen (Civil Rights Project at UCLA) and Russell Skiba (Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University) says Middle schools across the country are suspending ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Challenges and opportunities for improving community college student success
As public concern heightens over current completion rates for students at America's community colleges, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher has systematically examined 25 years of rigorous research in search of explanations ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Study: Reasons for suspension and expulsion complex, race still central
An Indiana University study presented on Friday at the American Educational Research Association meeting in Vancouver shows that race continues to be an important factor in determining who receives out-of-school ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2012 |
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Research findings contradict myth of high engineering dropout rate
Research findings suggest that, contrary to popular belief, engineering does not have a higher dropout rate than other majors and women do just as well as men, information that could lead to a strategy for ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 04, 2009 |
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California high school exit exam gets a failing grade in Stanford study
Graduation rates for low-achieving minority students and girls have fallen nearly 20 percentage points since California implemented a law requiring high school students to pass exit exams in order to graduate, according to ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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