Sentences with phrase «causal impact of schools»

Estimating Causal Impacts of School Counselors With Regression Discontinuity Designs.

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However, more evidence is needed to draw causal inferences about the long - term impact of school breakfast on academic outcomes, according to the study background.

• When proclaiming the importance of their causal estimates of the impact of school spending, there are no qualifications: «Our findings provide compelling evidence that money does matter, and that additional school resources can meaningfully improve long - run outcomes for students.»

He will open Unity Prep — a grade 6 — 12, tuition - free, public charter school in Brooklyn, N.Y. Meanwhile, Beauregard plans to continue work on his dissertation examining the causal impact of attending a well - established charter school network in San Diego, Calif., on secondary and postsecondary outcomes.

We examine a unique intervention in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to uncover the causal impact on school performance of an evaluation system based on highly structured classroom observations of teacher practice.

The study, which was featured in the August 2010 issue of the Economic Journal, systemically measured the causal impact of private school competition across countries.

By comparing students who randomly receive offers to attend a charter school to those that randomly do not receive lottery offers, the study estimates the causal impact of enrolling in a charter school for both special education and general education students.

We treat Instrumental Variables Analysis (IV) estimates of the impact of private schooling on student outcomes, some of which are being presented for the first time in this study, as the causal «benchmark» estimate.

Using these measures, a near - consensus of the «gold standard» studies — those that employ random assignment to determine the causal impact of a policy — have found that students in a school choice program benefit academically from the new setting.

While there is not a clear causal effect between a teacher's own academic record and his or her ability to achieve the kinds of learning gains that help students excel, most studies do find a correlation between higher GPA and teacher effectiveness.43 Taken in aggregate with other factors, such as experience and rank of undergraduate school, some studies have found larger positive impacts, especially for math achievement.44 For this reason, a high GPA should not be the only factor that determines entry into the profession.

Using these measures, a near - consensus of the «gold standard» studies — those that employ random assignment to determine the causal impact of a policy — have found that students in a school choice -LSB-...]

The researcher uses a comprehensive data set of elementary and middle schools in the Philadelphia school district to explore the causal impact of attendance on multiple measures of achievement, including grade - point average and...

Given the lack of causal evidence from developing countries, we examine the impact of participating in shadow education (private tutoring or other fee - based academic activities outside of formal schooling) on high school student achievement.

Using administrative data from North Carolina and leveraging a discontinuity in the determination of school failure, we examine the causal impact of accountability pressure both on student behaviors that are incentivized by NCLB and on those that are not.

He made five overarching points: that's it's possible to implement measures of teacher effectiveness, that LA Unified has a higher ratio of ineffective teachers than school districts studied by other researchers, that a disproportionate number of ineffective teachers in LA Unified serve Latino and African American students, that effective teachers have a causal effect on student achievement and that teachers have long - term impacts not only on student achievement but also lifetime earnings.