Therefore, the achievement gap may be a misrepresentation of the true difference in
the academic performance between two groups of students.
«The achievement gap was a term coined to describe disparities in
academic performance between groups of students» (Dahlin & Cronin, 2010).
Although the racial «achievement gap,» or disparity in
academic performance between students of color and their white counterparts, is a well - documented area of concern, nationalized policy efforts to close the gap have been largely unsuccessful.
Supporters say it gives parents needed alternatives to public schools that in many cases continue to grapple with deep disparities in
academic performance between white and minority students.
These days it's common to talk about closing the «achievement gap,» significant and persistent disparities in
academic performance between groups of children.
Societal issues can begin to impact students both in and out of the classroom, causing a disparity in
academic performance between groups of students, especially groups defined by socioeconomic status, race / ethnicity, and gender.
A 14 - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student achievement data on 20 large established urban charter school systems and found that YES Prep Public Schools had the best overall student
academic performance between 2007 and 2011.
They selected the top three public charter systems — Achievement First, KIPP Foundation and Uncommon Schools — and ultimately found that Uncommon Schools had the best overall student
academic performance between 2009 and 2012.
This indicates that although Capital Preparatory Magnet only receives a GreatSchools rating of a three out of ten, there is great improvement in student
academic performance between the third and fifth grades.
Overall, discrepancies in
academic performance between white and black or Hispanic students across all socioeconomic levels show that there is a gap in achievement levels.
The achievement gaps in
academic performance between students grouped by socioeconomic status and race / ethnicity have barely narrowed in the 50 years since this data has been collected in the United States.
Although the gap in
academic performance between rural Hispanic and white students begins in elementary school, it grows as students move into middle and high school.
Even after adjusting for observed demographic differences, researchers always wondered whether unobserved differences that were not being accounted for, such as parental motivation or the intellectual richness of home life, played a larger role than the schools themselves in causing differences in
academic performance between public and private schools.
The chosen organisation will run and evaluate a trial of projects from January 2019 which will help all schools to support their most able, disadvantaged pupils and address the drop off in
academic performance between key stage 2 and key stage 4.
While existing research has compared
academic performance between in - person and online students, little is known about the differences among the students themselves.
In addition, some studies have reported ethnic differences — that for African - American and Chinese - Americans, there is sometimes little or no difference in
academic performance between kids from authoritarian and authoritative homes.
If measured in proficiency rates, even if all schools succeed in closing the achievement gap, the «real» gap (i.e. gap in test scores between groups of students) are most likely to remain because closing the achievement gap simply means that more students are moving towards proficiency, not that the gap in
academic performances between two groups of students is decreasing (Dahlin & Cronin, 2010).
Not exact matches
Academic research shows an inconclusive correlation
between having a mission statement and improved financial
performance.
CtW's letter cited
academic research that finds a positive relationship
between company
performance and greater board diversity.
The link
between company financial
performance and gender diversity is the latest in an emerging body of
academic and qualitative research that links well - rounded and inclusive work environments with returns.
Even though many women, African - Americans and Asians are older than other students, there are no significant differences
between them and other groups on various measures of
academic performance.
I am a scholar / practitioner who is often torn
between my
academic interest in ritual
performance and my responsibilities as a member of the Christian clergy and am myself ordained to perform Christian rites and rituals.
Positive relationships
between parent school involvement and public school inner city preschoolers» development and
academic performance.
While it is hard to prove a causal relationship
between low school funding and
academic performance, parents are of course interested in giving their children the best possible environment to grow up in, which results in some trying everything they can to get their children into a better funded school district.
Chancellor Carmen Fariña is launching a new collaboration - based program to try to boost
academic performance, the latest in a series of programs encouraging more school visits and meetings
between teachers.
«Past research has found a link
between violent crimes and
performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime affects
academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.
To resolve this, the researchers conducted so - called meta - analyses: From relevant databases of scientific publications, they identified 59 studies that tackled the correlation
between social media use and
academic performance.
«Conventional wisdom is that
academic performance in high school is important for college admission, but this is the first study to clearly demonstrate the link
between high school GPA and labor market earnings many years later,» says French, director of the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) in the Department of Sociology at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of the study.
In addition, a subsample of 42 children (29 boys, 13 girls) had brain imaging, which allowed the authors to examine the relations
between the cortical structure (thickness and surface area) of their brains and
academic performance.
In another study, using four data sets with sample sizes in the thousands, a team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota psychologist Paul Sackett investigated the relationship
between cognitive ability and both
academic and work
performance.
Wake Forest Innovations and Ethicon saw this project — an effort to generate independent data on the
performance of the stapler — would be a good pilot project for an R&D partnership
between the
academic institution and the medical device company.
But improving
academic performance is especially challenging in the Silver State, where the number of public school students increased by more than 50 percent
between 1994 and...
So, in response to this we pulled together a debate
between an eclectic panel of education experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's
performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an
academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in the sector.
Research on the link
between handwriting in early education and increased
academic performance as children grow up is increasing.
A new study draws attention to the large numbers of Detroit children who have been exposed to lead and establishes a link
between blood - lead levels and lower
academic performance.
The role of local authorities is changing dramatically, increasing pressure on school based teams, and the free school programme (an off shoot of the academies programme) has introduced competition
between schools which focuses attention not just on
academic performance but on the image a school wants to project.
[xi] Di Xu and Shanna Jaggars, «
Performance Gaps
Between Online and Face - to - Face Courses: Differences Across Types of Students and
Academic Subject Areas,» Journal of Higher Education 85 (3), 633 - 659, 2014; Cassandra Hart, Elizabeth Friedmann, and Michael Hill, «Online Course - Taking and Student Outcomes in California Community Colleges,» Education Finance and Policy, forthcoming.
The aim of the research was to try and address the connection, if there was any,
between the physical design of classrooms and the
academic performance of the pupils within them.
Several factors affect poor children's
academic performances, and more money doesn't always close the gap
between their test scores and the scores of their white, middle class counterparts, Neill told Education World.
The four elements posit LD as: 1) heterogeneous; 2) intrinsic or neurobiological; 3) marked by a significant discrepancy
between learning potential (measured intelligence) and
academic performance (measured skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and oral language); and 4) not caused by cultural, educational, environmental, or economic factors or by other disabilities (such as mental deficiency, visual or hearing impairments, or emotional disturbance).
Our findings are consistent with those of a recent study by Richard Patterson and Robert Patterson, which found that in - class computer usage reduces
academic performance by
between 0.14 and 0.37 points on a four - point grade scale among undergraduate students at a private liberal - arts college.
Noted in the paper, ministers say they will update school and college
performance measures in order to make sure that when the new T - level qualifications come into force in 2022, students can make an informed choice
between an
academic or technical education.
With the help of mentors at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institue of Technology, and thanks to the loan of hardware from Microsoft, Bick conducted a study called «The Impact of Personal Digital Assistants on
Academic Achievement,» in which he investigated the correlation between the use of Microsoft Pocket PCs and the academic performance of Millburn freshmen and sophomores over the course of five
Academic Achievement,» in which he investigated the correlation
between the use of Microsoft Pocket PCs and the
academic performance of Millburn freshmen and sophomores over the course of five
academic performance of Millburn freshmen and sophomores over the course of five months.
«There should be a balance
between spending time learning the curriculum and also attending school trips to enhance their
academic performance, but also enjoy time away from learning, to have some fun.»
Much research has been done on the battle
between pen and paper versus the keyboard: Some research shows a positive effect on (
academic)
performance when students use pen and paper.
The possibility that there is a causal relationship
between voucher enrollment and
academic performance can not be evaluated using the data in the WSJ story.
To explore these questions, we studied the 29 high school closures begun
between 2003 and 2009 in New York City to determine the degree to which a closure affected a range of student outcomes, including graduation rates, mobility, attendance, and
academic performance.
There is also a strong link
between the pre-reading skills with which children enter school and their later
academic performance.
The program may have modestly increased
academic performance in public schools, consistent with the theory behind school vouchers that they create competition
between public and private schools.
It also mentions the low level of
academic achievement in Detroit schools, including its charters, but the level of
performance does not distinguish
between the difficulties that children bring to school and the success or failure of schools to improve student
performance.