The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and its partners -- including the Ray Marshall Center -- have established an Education Research Center (ERC), sponsored by the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, which will conduct research for the benefit of education in Texas, as authorized by Section 1.005 of the Texas Education Code. Current approved projects are:
Project 1: College Readiness, Transition, and Performance
The Ray Marshall Center will use linked high school and postsecondary education
records, in combination with variables developed fiom the TEA AEIS public database to
determine the rates of graduation and college enrollment for seniors in Texas
school districts and factors associated with successful transitions to postsecondary education.
Statistical models that were developed in a similar project that used different data sources will be
run on data obtained from the ERC data warehouse to test the degree to which findings are
consistent across the different data sets and available variables used in the two separate projects.
Project 2: An Analysis of Early Education Factors Associated with School Success in the
Elementary Years
Ray Marshall Center researchers will conduct an exploratory analysis of the relationship
between participation in pre-kindergarten and success in the early school years. Outcome
measures to be used in this phase of the analysis will be either 1st grade passing rates or 3rd grade
performance on TAKS tests, depending on the years of TEA data available in the ERC data
warehouse at the time that the study is conducted.
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