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New Study Evaluates Access to, Participation Levels in, Dual Enrollment Programs in REL Central Region
Anecdotally speaking, the education community tends to view rural students and students from resource-challenged households as not having the same level of access to quality learning opportunities as students from urban centers or high-income households. But is this actually true? As part of the Rural Education Research Alliance, REL Central worked with educators in our region to measure students' access to and participation levels in dual enrollment pr...
Date published:
Jun 16, 2021
report
Descriptive Study
Understanding Access to and Participation in Dual Enrollment by Locale and Income Level
By providing students with an opportunity to take college courses and earn college credits while in high school, dual enrollment programs effectively increase college access, enrollment, and degree attainment. Such programs might be particularly beneficial for high school students who might be less likely to go to college, including students from rural areas and low-income households. Given the comparatively rural geography of the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Central region, stakehol...
May 24, 2021
Publication number:
REL 2021 089
report
Impact Study
The Impact of Career and Technical Education on Postsecondary Outcomes in Nebraska and South Dakota
Education leaders in Nebraska and South Dakota partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Central to examine how completing a sequence of career and technical education (CTE) courses in high school affects students' rates of on-time high school graduation and their rates of postsecondary education enrollment and completion within two and five years. The study found that CTE concentrators (students who complete a sequence of CTE courses aligned to a specific career field such as manufa...
May 11, 2021
Publication number:
REL 2021 087
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Other Resource
Measuring Civic Readiness: A Review of Survey Scales
This resource supports state and local education agencies in identifying, comparing, and contrasting survey scales that measure a variety of civic readiness categories. It describes the format and structure of survey scales, details the civic readiness categories measured by the scales, and summarizes the reliability and validity evidence associated with the scales.
Apr 05, 2021
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Other Resource
Steps to Develop a Model to Estimate School- and District-Level Postsecondary Success
This tool is intended to support state and local education agencies in developing a statistical model for estimating student postsecondary success at the school or district level. The tool guides education agency researchers, analysts, and decisionmakers through options to consider when developing their own model. The resulting model generates an indicator of a school's or district's contribution to the postsecondary success of its students after contextual factors are accounted for that migh...
Mar 01, 2021
report
Descriptive Study
How Nebraska Teachers Use and Perceive Summative, Interim, and Formative Data
Teachers have access to more data than ever before, including summative (state-level), interim (benchmark-level), and formative (classroom-level) data. Yet research on how often and why teachers use each type of data is scarce. The Nebraska Department of Education partnered with the Regional Educational Laboratory Central to conduct a study of teachers and principals in 353 Nebraska schools to learn about teachers' use and perceptions of summative, interim, and formative data and inform a sta...
Jan 01, 2021
Publication number:
REL 2021 054