One might expect that significant variations in teaching quality across schools would be reflected in significant
differences in student achievement among the HSS and LSS.
Not exact matches
On four items — school discipline, expectations for
student achievement, school building and facilities, and the racial and ethnic diversity
among students — we find no significant
difference in the variation
in satisfaction across sectors.
Evaluations of any educational technology program often confront a number of methodological problems, including the need for measures other than standardized
achievement tests,
differences among students in the opportunity to learn, and
differences in starting points and program implementation.
In other words, qualitative differences among teachers have large impacts on the growth in student achievement, even though these differences are not related to the measured background characteristics or to the training teachers have receive
In other words, qualitative
differences among teachers have large impacts on the growth
in student achievement, even though these differences are not related to the measured background characteristics or to the training teachers have receive
in student achievement, even though these
differences are not related to the measured background characteristics or to the training teachers have received.
Differences among schools
in their facilities and staffing «are so little related to
achievement levels of
students that, with few exceptions, their effect fails to appear even
in a survey of this magnitude,» the authors concluded.
Most reports on
differences among the states are descriptive, although some analysts suggest that rigorous state accountability systems can raise
student achievement.252 How they might do this has not, however, been explored
in detail.
After analyzing
student outcome data and comparing current
student performance with annual yearly progress benchmarks for
student achievement, the leadership team agrees that there are significant
differences in outcomes
among students of diverse racial, ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds unrelated to socioeconomic status???.
Among those are preservice teachers» understanding of and ability to address
student differences, the nature of the change process
in schools implementing differentiation,
achievement impacts of differentiation
in middle school, elementary, and high school settings, and profiles of teachers whose classroom practice enhances success of
students from low - economic and / or cultural minority groups.
There were no
differences in math test scores
among students whose parents had low math anxiety, and no
differences in reading
achievement for parents with different levels of math anxiety.
It turns out that the quality of state standards is not related to past gains
in student achievement, the levels at which states set past proficiency standards did not make a
difference in achievement, and standards have little effect on the variation on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores both within and
among states.
This paper investigates the
differences in academic
achievement trajectories from elementary through middle school
among English Learner
students in four different instructional programs: English Immersion, Transitional Bilingual, Developmental Bilingual, and Dual Immersion programs.
For instance, the ranking of
student achievement among students in Texas and Florida rose from average
among states to scoring
among the top four states
in the nation after controlling for demographic
differences.
A close examination of
student achievement reveals that
differences among students, and
differences among schools, pale
in comparison to the
differences in the quality of teaching from classroom to classroom when it comes to variances
in achievement (Rowan, Correnti, & Miller, 2002).