The marginal cost of choosing one textbook over another is generally close to zero (because all textbooks cost about the same amount [xiv]-RRB-, and several recent studies have documented meaningfully
large differences in student outcomes.
The analysis has highlighted that there are
differences in student outcomes within racial and ethnic groups with that appear to be related to students» national origins, English language proficiency and disabilities.
Fact: A 2009 Rand Corporation study, Achievement and Attainment in Chicago Charter Schools compares charter school students to those who applied to charter schools but were not admitted showing that charter schools alone make a
big difference in student outcomes.
We can therefore attribute
any differences in student outcomes on either side of the cutoff to the effect of having being deemed eligible.
We found that about half of
the difference in student outcomes in schools slated for closure and the broader sample of schools can be explained by differences in incoming students» demographic characteristics, absenteeism, and achievement in middle school.
It is humbling for us policy wonks to see how far off the public is about not only their investments in public schooling, but what might make
a difference in student outcomes.
They invested in external and locally created data bases to inform inquiry and decision - making related to
differences in student outcomes and degrees of program implementation (see section 2.4 for specific examples related to district support for data use in schools).
The Team arguedthat focusing on the improvement of teaching without looking at school conditions that support teaching and learning is unfair and will miss critical influences on
differences in student outcomes.
For high school algebra and biology,
the difference in student outcomes for UTeach and non-UTeach teachers is larger than the difference in outcomes between new teachers and what we typically see after a teacher has ten years of experience!
From priming students to probing their responses — these practices make
a difference in student outcomes.