In «Good News for New Orleans,» Harris summarizes research conducted with ERA analyst Matthew Larsen, that uses two complementary strategies to determine how the reforms
affected student performance on state tests.
Interim assessments are often required at the district level to address potential gaps that will
affect student performance on the summative tests, and formative assessments include a wide array of test typically administered at the classroom level.
Not exact matches
Cuomo and lawmakers also passed legislation that provides a «safety net» for teachers whose evaluations were negatively
affected by the drop in
student performance on the early administrations of Common Core exams.
It also follows a natural experiment we examined in which
students affected by the redrawing of school attendance zone boundaries were essentially randomly assigned to schools that went
on more or fewer field trips to see live
performances at the Walton Arts Center.
There are also reasons to believe that subjective retention policies
affect students differently than policies that use promotion criteria like
performance on standardized tests.
On the surface, this might seem like a strategy that would boost accountability ratings without
affecting students» overall
performance.
He used data from Wake County, North Carolina, to study how start times
affect the
performance of middle school
students on standardized tests.
Third - grade
students were not
affected, and 6th - grade
students were negatively
affected by the policy in their
performance on the ITBS reading test.
The main difficulty in measuring the effect of teacher retirement
on student achievement is that retirement decisions may both
affect and be
affected by
student performance.
In this study, I use data from Wake County, North Carolina, to examine how start times
affect the
performance of middle school
students on standardized tests.
Neurologist, teacher, and author Judy Willis explains how
students»
performance on tests can often be
affected by their perceptions of and feelings about why they're being tested and what's being assessed.
The
students» struggles with grammar
affected their
performances on standardized tests and ultimately led to them being penalized by American policies like No Child Left Behind, she said.
Neurologist, teacher, author and Edutopia blogger Judy Willis explains how
students»
performance on tests can often be
affected by their perceptions of and feelings about why they're being tested and what's being assessed.
With further research focused
on these key questions, we may come to better understand the implications of discipline policy reforms — how they
affect suspension use, and also how they change school climate; interactions among
students, peers, and teachers; and the academic
performance of all
students.
He viewed the Louisiana results as commentary
on accountability as much as
on vouchers, hypothesizing that it could have been the increased regulations and accountability measures, which
affected both public schools and private schools receiving voucher
students, that led to
performance gains.
A
student whose speech impairment adversely
affects the
student's educational
performance shall be referred to the committee
on special education for further evaluation and review of the need for special services and programs, pursuant to article 89 of the Education Law.
In fact, to our knowledge, the analysis presented here represents the first study to examine the grading standards of individual teachers and how those standards
affect students»
performance on independent exams.
To be sure, statewide analyses can provide accurate estimates of the impact of school resources — but only if the analyst includes within the statistical model all the factors that
affect student performance and, in the standard linear regression model generally favored by RAND, if these factors have a constant, additive effect
on student achievement.
Examining
students»
performance on the ITBS in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades enables us to see how their gains in reading from 3rd to 4th grade, and in math from 4th to 5th grade, were
affected by their teachers» grading standards that academic year.
The study distinguishes the persistent effects that teachers have in their own subject — English teachers
on students» later English test
performance and math teachers
on students» later math test
performance — from cross-subject effects in which English teachers in one year can
affect math
performance in subsequent years and math teachers in one year can
affect math
performance in a subsequent year.
A study by the RAND Corporation of
students from Louisiana districts
affected by the hurricane suggests that these two factors had a short - term net negative effect
on evacuees»
performance of 0.03 to 0.06 standard deviations.
That is, good English teachers — those with the greatest long - run effect
on students —
affect not only test
performance in English but also behaviors such as skipping school.
It's also true that I have been conducting experiments
on how the performing arts
affect students, including this piece
on a musical
performance, and a forthcoming piece in Education Next about an experiment in which
students were assigned by lottery to see Hamlet and A Christmas Carol or to serve in the control to identify what
students learn from seeing live theater.
The available empirical evidence
on these private school choice programs makes it clear they positively
affect the academic
performance of participating
students, while doing so at a lower cost than public schools and benefitting public school
students, decreasing segregation, and improving civic values and practices.
Rather than waiting to see how those changes would
affect their schools, the district set out in 2008 to incorporate a bold vision into its strategic plan: Vancouver would create an «opportunity zone» where schools would focus
on addressing the impact of poverty that can
affect students» classroom
performance.
The researchers noted, however, that «the relationships here are correlational, not causal,» and the finding could be at odds with another finding from the study.13 Separately, the VAL - ED principal
performance assessment (developed with support from The Wallace Foundation) measures principals
on community and parent engagement.14 Vanderbilt researchers who developed the assessment are undertaking further study
on how important this practice is in
affecting students, achievement.
Critics of merit pay say that it is unsupported by research, and that evaluating an individual teacher's
performance based
on student standardized testing is extremely difficult, given the many factors outside the classroom that can
affect student achievement.
State lawmakers and education leaders are considering paying North Carolina teachers based
on their individual
performance, despite concerns from stakeholders who argue it could harmfully
affect students and teacher morale.
In my interview with Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, Special Advisor
on Education Policy to the Secretary - General at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, we discussed the cycle of poor
student performance in at - risk communities, the key characteristics of schools that
affect the level of
performance, how government policy can support
students, and the relevance of the PISA test in a changing education environment.
The tool also provides information about district - level NAEP
performance and how in - school and at - home factors
affect student achievement, and allows educators to explore NAEP lessons
on technology - based assessments.
How do accommodations
affect students» learning and their
performance on tests?
The present levels of
performance are a comprehensive description of the
student's academic achievement and functional
performance, and must include information
on how the
student's disability
affects the
student's involvement and progress in the general curriculum.
Students can struggle in school for a variety of reasons, but, unless you understand which factors are
affecting your school / district, the strategies you use to improve
student performance will be based
on little more than an educated guess.
So, there's so much that
affects student performance: curriculum, quality of teachers and support staff, the list goes
on and
on.
A lot of teachers are understandably yet needlessly wary of how
student performance on tests will
affect them.
This, combined with the fact that there is a directly negative relationship between residential mobility and
student academic
performance, particularly for
students in low - income or single - parent families (Scanlon and Devine), shows how mobility patterns based
on a long history of housing segregation can have direct impacts
on individual
students before they even
affect institutional matters like funding.
You need to understand the things that the
students in these particular ages are experiencing so you can relate
on the items that
affect their learning enthusiasm, practices, and
performance.