So many things could have
affected student achievement during the five - year period between 2011 and 2016 that it's impossible to know what the main causes of deterioration are.
Most research on school leadership and student achievement was published after 1978, when the research focus moved away from effective school research to research on how school
leaders affect student achievement.
Studies have shown that a high teacher turnover rate can negatively
affect student achievement across the whole school, which causes a cycle where some schools are very hard - to - staff.
A key challenge in drawing lessons from foreign studies is that there are many economic and cultural factors that
also affect student achievement, besides the design of the school system itself.
Taking data from TIMSS, we used a quasi-experimental design to take a broader look at how class
size affects student achievement in different nations around the world.
Despite a lack of hard data on how digital
learning affects student achievement, Mineola, a fairly affluent New York City suburb, is betting heavily on technology to help children meet an array of tough Common Core standards.
The findings, which were released here last week during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, are part of a larger research effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation to explore how the organization of schools and
classrooms affects student achievement.
New empirical work, using better data (e.g., that enable researchers to estimate the relative impact of factors
affecting student achievement growth from year to year) and more - sophisticated statistical techniques has, in broad terms, reinforced the Coleman Report conclusion that teacher quality is the most important schooling variable.
As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational
choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.
Of course, the historical prevalence of Catholicism could also have had other consequences, apart from a greater reliance on private schooling, that
indirectly affect student achievement.
As the official evaluators of this program, Dr. Fleming and his colleagues are examining how school
vouchers affect student achievement, graduation rates, parental satisfaction, and a host of other outcomes.
In the most complete picture to date of how a voucher program operating at
scale affects student achievement, the researchers report that the early academic losses for voucher students are recouped in later years.
And in this and other developments, according to school - finance experts, research findings on effective schools are reopening an old debate over the extent to which money and
resources affect student achievement.
It's possible, says Pittinsky, that there is more good news to be discovered about microaffirmations, and more to learn in general about how small
behaviors affect student achievement.
It is much harder to measure principal value - added because students don't change principals every year, and principals» effects on students are mostly indirect: principals
affect student achievement through teachers.