Research, experience, and common sense combine to tell us that each individual student's relationship with his or her teacher is the most directly
correlated school factor that influences behavior.
Not exact matches
A review by Goldman (2005) of five studies using multivariate analyses which isolate the independent impact of fathers» involvement in children's learning on educational outcomes, clearly shows that fathers» involvement (both in terms of level and frequency) in their children's
schools is a key
factor that
correlates with better educational outcomes for children.
Most impactful
factors on educational attainment are instead ones that don't have to do with educational funding; but directly
correlate to how well funded the district
schools are:
In our paper, we point out that even if one can carefully account for several observable
factors (as we do),
correlating all actual changes in
school spending with changes in student outcomes is unlikely to yield causal relationships.
Lithuania Policy Research Capacity Project In this project (2001 - 2003), 3 policy research studies were carried: 1) How do
school and student
factors explain variation in a national standardized test; 2) Why is the national test result not
correlated with international test results?
Although income and achievement are
correlated, the Broader, Bolder Approach to
school reform errs in ignoring other, more important
factors
On occasion, a specific study might find any one of these
factors to be
correlated with student performance, but, taken together, the vast proportion of results across a wide array of studies has found no statistically significant connection between the standard resources available to
schools and the amount of learning taking place within the building.
The strongest
correlates of achievement gaps are local racial / ethnic differences in parental income, local average parental education levels, and patterns of racial / ethnic segregation, consistent with a theoretical model in which family socioeconomic
factors affect educational opportunity partly though residential and
school segregation patterns.
The other point — which David presumably left out because it's undoubtedly well known to anyone reading this — is that it's a universal truth that demographics and other outside -
school factors closely
correlate with academic achievement.
This study allows our region to identify student
school readiness across multiple competencies in both academic and social - emotional development, as well as determine the demographic and experiential
factors most
correlated with readiness.
And for high
schools, GreatSchools adds in a «college readiness
factor,» which is measured by SAT scores and graduation rates — two more variables that
correlate with race and class.
The 5Essentials Survey assesses five key effectiveness
factors that are
correlated with
school success: Effective Leaders, Collaborative Teachers, Supportive Environment, Involved Families, and Ambitious Instruction.
The problem at hand is that, in principle, standard value - added models can not isolate the impact of
school organization or teacher expertise if those
factors are
correlated with peer motivation, parent commitment, neighborhood safety, and other local conditions.
They couldn't say exactly why, but they concluded that five
correlated factors - segregation, family structure, income inequality, local
school quality, and social capital - were likely to make a difference.
As I discussed last week, the differences between teachers only account for at most 20 % of the variance in student test scores, and more than 60 % of score variance
correlates to out - of -
school factors.
After controlling for student background, the only objective
factor found to be positively
correlated with student performance was smaller classes, not
school size or teacher qualifications, nor any other variable that the researchers could identify.
Barton cites a General Accounting Office report that identified four
factors correlated with low high
school completion rates: coming from low - income and single - parent families, getting low grades in
school, being absent frequently, and changing
schools.
Many
factors that
correlate with dropout rates — coming from low - income or single - parent families, getting low grades in
school, being absent frequently, and changing
schools — seem to be beyond the realm of a teacher's practice.
Youth offending is also
correlated with socio - economic deprivation, alongside
factors such as parental supervision, discipline and attitude, broken homes and separation, peer influences,
school influences and community influences (Farrington, 1996).