Type of Document Dissertation Author Ogletree, Susan L. Author's Email Address sogletree1@gsu.edu URN etd-04162007-173428 Title Student Achievement in Science and Mathematics in Urban Professional Develpment Schools during First Year of Implementation Degree Ph.D. Department Educational Policy Studies Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title William L. Curlette Committee Chair Douglas Davis Committee Member Gwendolyn Benson Committee Member Mary P. Deming Committee Member Roy M. Kern Committee Member Keywords
- quasi-experimental
- k-12
- science
- mathematics
- academic achievement
- Professional Development Schools
Date of Defense 2007-02-28 Availability unrestricted Abstract Using a quasi-experimental design, the author examined the effects of the Professional Development School Partnerships Deliver Success educational model on student academic achievement in science and mathematics in 12 high-needs, urban elementary, middle, and high schools in the southeastern United States. Student achievement was measured for first to eighth grade students by the State Criterion-Referenced Competency Test and for 11th-grade students by the State High School Graduation Test. 6 ANOVAs were used to compare baseline and year 1 performance data. Student ethnicity was used to disaggregate the data to investigate the extent, if any, to which achievement gaps narrowed. For the different ethnic groups, the small changes in proportion passing across the first year of implementation were not correlated with mean scale score changes as measured by Hedges’s g effect sizes. This result has national implications for the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 policy in terms of reporting results. Three of the 6 ANOVAs showed significant change in achievement means for the PDS schools when using PDS school data only. However, when data from both PDS and matched comparison schools were analyzed, the overall results indicated no statistically significant gains in mathematics and science means for the professional development schools in relation to the comparison schools for the first year of professional development school implementation.Files
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