Sentences with phrase «academic peer effects»

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It may be that Brown can be so sanguine about overcoming the fragmenting effects of disciplinary diversity because the national scholarly organizations that institutionalize the various academic guilds today exercised less political power in the 1930s over scholars» standing with peers, mobility from school to school, and promotion to tenure.

They argue that threats such as Hare's «strike at the heart of the peer review process» and «may have a chilling effect on the values at the core of academic freedom.»

Because students from disadvantaged backgrounds are likely to be more affected by a change in peer groups through day - to - day interaction with academically inclined peers and academic groups, there may be a greater effect of university education on students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Service learning can have positive effects on students» performance on subject - matter examinations and assessments and creates opportunities known to improve academic achievement, such as giving students the chance to act autonomously, develop good relationships with adults and peers, and increase personal self - esteem and feelings of self - efficacy.

In his 2014 academic paper — The achievement effects of tardy classmates: Evidence in urban elementary schools — Michael Gottfried explores the impact of tardy students» behaviour on their peers.

The key question is whether KIPP's positive effects on learning are attributable to a peer environment that is more conducive to academic achievement than the peer environment found in traditional public schools.

The takeaway: Don't underestimate the effect of peer pressure in your school — it's powerful enough to get students to walk away from even life - changing academic opportunities.

Insofar as students benefit from peer effects in classrooms, corridors, and clubs, and insofar as being surrounded by other smart kids challenges these students (and wards off allegations of «nerdiness»), schools with overall cultures of high academic attainment are apt to yield more such benefits.

The Coleman Report identified the peer group at school as an important factor affecting learning, but several papers in this volume suggest that the socioeconomic status or academic ability of peers has little effect on academic performance.

Though the increase in school attendance among disciplined students led to only very modest improvements in their academic performance on state reading exams, it did not have a substantively negative effect on their peers» academic performance.

Now a recent study in Education Next from researchers at Mathematica Policy Research examines whether KIPP's positive effects are attributable to better peers, which would consequently make it difficult to replicate the KIPP model and academic successes in public schools.

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can thrive.

Teachers unions were very supportive of school integration in Wake County, and the very positive role they can play on national policy was underlined in December, when the National Education Association announced an effort to establish 100 new peer assistance and review programs to better train and, if necessary, weed out ineffective teachers; and the American Federation of Teachers proposed an innovative approach to raise academic achievement in a low - income community in West Virginia by going after the effects of poverty directly.

A growing literature in the economics of education emphasizes the importance of peer effects in determining students» academic outcomes.

Peer - reviewed research on Act 10's effects on student outcomes has yet to be published, but several academics have produced working papers examining the law's impact on Wisconsin students.

Further, to the extent that the biggest advantage of socioeconomic integration may be direct peer effects (Reid, 2012)-- picking up knowledge and habits from high - achieving, highly motivated peers — high - poverty schools will always be at a disadvantage, given the strong relationship between students» own socioeconomic statuses and their academic performance.

Moving on, the report then says, in effect, that Mann is a distinguished scholar, a successful raiser of research funding, a man admired by his peers - so any allegation of academic impropriety must be false.

As parents guide their young children from complete infantile dependence into the beginning stages of autonomy, their styles of caregiving can have both immediate and lasting effects on children's social functioning in areas from moral development to peer play to academic achievement.

Peer victimization and rejection: Investigation of an integrative model of effects on emotional, behavioral, and academic adjustment in early adolescence

Results indicate modest positive effects of sustained PATHS exposure included reduced aggression and increased prosocial behavior (according to both teacher and peer report) and improved academic engagement (according to teacher report).

Problematic peer relations may have adverse effects on the transition to school, with subsequent consequences for academic success.

Implications are discussed for the cumulative effects of children's peer groups on their academic development during middle school.

Peer tutoring for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: effects on classroom behavior and academic performance