Sentences with phrase «differences in teacher quality between»

We found negligible differences in teacher quality between programs, amounting to no more than 3 percent of the average test - score gap between students from low - income families and their more affluent peers.

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Schools, teacher quality and family income all play a large role in student success, but these factors do not fully explain the academic differences seen in the U.S. between whites and disadvantaged racial / ethnic minorities, including blacks and Hispanics.

In sum, we observe strong differences between the more - and less - educated white respondents on assessments of school quality, school spending, teacher salaries, immigration policy, teacher tenure, merit pay, and school vouchers.

And the fact that the Coleman findings are based on differences between schools means that it ignores important differences in resources — teacher quality in particular — that we know today exist within schools.

A report by the Sutton Trust in 2011, found a 40 per cent difference between pupils learning from a teacher of high quality than from a less effective teacher.

Finally, because the student - teacher pairings were initially random, any statistically significant difference in performance between students with and without career - ladder teachers should be attributable to true differences in the quality of the teachers.

With each percentage point improvement in measured teacher quality, a faculty member is 0.037 percentile points higher in the h - index ranking (standard error of 0.108), implying a difference in the h - index distribution of only two percentile points between the 25th and 75th percentile teachers.

At the same time, most of the difference in achievement between low - income and high - income students is not due to differences in teacher quality.

Therefore, the difference between the 25th and 75th percentile of the teacher quality distribution, measured in terms of value - added, is just three percentile points in the h - index distribution (and the opposite signed relationship as seen with the other measure of research quality).

The thing that makes a difference between someone that's okay and adequate as a teacher and someone who is the best teacher for a child to set them up for the rest of their life as a learner, is one that can bring to bear their personal qualities in a professional way.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

He found significant variability in LAUSD teacher quality, as demonstrated by student performance on standardized tests in reading and math, and he concluded that differences between «high - performing» and «low - performing» teachers accounted for differences in student performance.

A June 2014 report released by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) claimed that, «When teachers are absent 10 days, the decrease in student achievement is equivalent to the difference between having a brand new teacher and one with two or three years more experience... Worse yet, a number of studies have found there to be a disproportionately high rate of teacher absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.Teacher Quality (NCTQ) claimed that, «When teachers are absent 10 days, the decrease in student achievement is equivalent to the difference between having a brand new teacher and one with two or three years more experience... Worse yet, a number of studies have found there to be a disproportionately high rate of teacher absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.teacher and one with two or three years more experience... Worse yet, a number of studies have found there to be a disproportionately high rate of teacher absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.teacher absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.»