Sentences with phrase «educational effect sizes»

If you are the kind of person who finds certain graphs sexy, beholding Hattie's ranking of educational effect sizes will be exhilarating.

Not exact matches

Despite large family sizes, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (Mormons) don't feel the same educational attainment effects.

They found that the negative effect of sibship size (the amount of siblings in an immediate family) on educational attainment was cut in half between the beginning and middle of the 20th century.

A recent study by Hill et al. (2008) provides empirical benchmarks for interpreting effect sizes in educational research more generally.

And in return, Hanushek has embedded his conclusion about the lack of class - size effects in a broader endorsement of a conservative educational agenda.

In doing so, we have controlled for possible effects of differences in educational inputs such as class sizes, availability of materials, and aggregate expenditure per student in the country.

John Hattie, in his mega-meta-analysis, has suggested that the average effect size of an educational intervention is about 0.4, and argues that we -LSB-...]

In short, we find little evidence that the negative effects of attending a middle school are attributable to differences in resources, cohort sizes, or educational practices.

Nevertheless, educational choice programs of sufficient size could mitigate the crowd - out effect and foster healthy competition among schools.

In this sense, RAND simply repeats an already well - known finding: that if you rely on imprecise statewide data and if you ignore all other aspects of state educational policy, you will often find that average statewide school spending and class size have at least a minor effect on student performance.

As longtime educators who believe in the power of good teaching and, even more, good teachers, our belief was validated when John Hattie (2014) identified collective teacher efficacy (CTE) as the highest educational influence found in the research literature to date — 1.57 effect size!

These are large effect sizes, and are much bigger than most of those found for educational interventions.

District resource capacity and the effects of educational policy: The case of primary class size reduction in Ontario

One of the most widely admired educational studies is the Tennessee STAR class size project, which established that small classes had a significant positive effect on student achievement.

Black and William report that studies of formative assessment show an effect size on standardized tests of between 0.4 and 0.7, larger than most known educational interventions.

Performance trajectories and performance gaps as achievement effect - size benchmarks for educational interventions

Dan Goldhaber, an education researcher at the University of Washington, reported, «The effect of increases in teacher quality swamps the impact of any other educational investment, such as reductions in class size.»

John Hattie, a leader in educational research and effect size, says that «the most powerful single modification that enhances achievement is feedback.»

It says the DfE has tried to «assess whether creating free schools is having the intended effect of improving educational standards through competition but the sample size is currently too small to draw meaningful conclusions».

For example, VAMs are useful «for researchers comparing large groups of teachers to investigate the effects of teacher training approaches or educational policies, or simply to investigate the size and importance of long - term teacher effects... [I] t is clear that value - added scores are far superior to unadjusted end - of - year student test scores» (Haertel, 2013, p. 23).

This «effect size» metric is common educational statistics jargon.