In higher - performing settings, district leaders understood that the reasons for
differences in student performance, or in implementation of district initiatives, were particular to the setting.
The type of teacher comparisons, whether within or between schools, generally has a larger effect on teacher rankings than statistical adjustments
for differences in student backgrounds across classrooms.
There are, of course, dozens of strategies that could be incorporated into instruction that will make a
big difference in student achievement, but which ones are the best?
We begin to address this issue by measuring principal effectiveness based only on comparisons of within -
school differences in student achievement growth over time.
Simply reading to a student or playing basketball with him / her on a regular, reliable basis can make a
huge difference in a student's sense - of - self.
This is a significant opportunity, given that the evidence suggests that teacher quality is the most important school factor in
explaining differences in student performance.
The right certifications and credentials, in the right healthcare fields, could have a profound
difference in student academic success, as well as job opportunities.
Our staff continually ask themselves the same question you might ask yourself: As educators, how can we make a bigger, better
difference in student engagement and knowledge?
But the strategy chosen by the school did not appear to make
much difference in student proficiency rates, according to the federal analysis, as they all made about the same progress.
The researchers present convincing evidence that their estimates of teacher contributions to student achievement are valid and do not simply
reflect differences in student background.
In this case, prioritize skills by focusing on the most important / foundational skills or those skills that will make the
greatest difference in student achievement.
Allowing for possible
differences in student bodies, those students opting out of government schools through a voucher program on average score better than those who apply for vouchers but do not receive them.
The authors discuss the use of digital games and computerized assessment in the classroom to offer real - time feedback and differentiated instruction to
address differences in student learning rates.
Our findings do suggest, however, that the specific measures of fluid cognitive skills we administered in classrooms as part our research were able to capture academically
relevant differences in student cognition.
While test vendors provide estimates of split - test reliability, these measures do not account for potentially important day - to -
day differences in student performance.
Special education teachers who study and address the
unique differences in students are really a part of the whole learning puzzle — necessary to a student's future success.
There's another driver of discipline disparities that we must consider, beyond educator bias and
differences in student behavior: the school - to - school variation in suspension rates.
In other words, charter schools and magnet schools will naturally have
differences in student body composition due to their enrollment methods.
That is, assessing programs with value - added measures is easier than it is with test scores alone because the value - added measures account
for differences in the students that teachers teach.
Tracking not only changes our ability to account for
differences in the students who teachers educate, but also the degree to which the curriculum aligns with the tests.