Sentences with phrase «effect on achievement even»

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It's a testament to The Howling «s quality that the main creative team behind it went on to even bigger accomplishments later in their careers — Joe Dante directed the hugely - successful Gremlins for Steven Spielberg, Sayles became a highly respected independent filmmaker and Oscar - nominated screenwriter, and Bottin would be nominated for an Academy Award six years later for his work on Legend, before being awarded a Special Achievement Oscar in 1991 for his spectacular makeup effects on Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

Second, the new wave of personalized learning draws on a set of instructional strategies that have shown particularly large effects on student achievement: feedback, peer tutoring, mastery learning, goal setting, and even direct instruction.

Because teachers were considering intangible factors, even when race, gender, family income, and academic achievement are the same, there was no way to isolate the effect of being held back, much less to make reasonable conclusions about the effects of retention on a student's academic achievement or the probability of his dropping out of high school.

And don't forget reams of research showing that few preschool programs, even good ones, have lasting effects on kids» academic achievement.

Thomas Cook, writing in 1984, concludes that meta - analyses of results from all the studies, taken together, support the view that the effects on the mathematics and reading achievement in elementary school are quite small or even zero.

A RCT of charter schools in New York City by a Stanford researcher found an even larger effect: «On average, a student who attended a charter school for all of grades kindergarten through eight would close about 86 percent of the «Scarsdale - Harlem achievement gap» in math and 66 percent of the achievement gap in English.»

Even when attrition and replacement throughout the middle school years are taken into account, the limited range of potential peer effects at KIPP schools does not explain the large cumulative impacts on student achievement identified by prior studies.

However, charter schools in North Carolina exhibit negative effects on student achievement even after controlling for student turnover rates.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

If teachers tend to rely more on lectures when assigned more capable or attentive students, this would generate a positive relationship between the amount of time spent lecturing and student achievement, even in the absence of a true causal effect.

Even so, our analysis provides the most complete picture to date of the early effects on student achievement of a voucher program operating at scale.

A study by AIR and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) shows that even small amounts of the right kind of feedback to teachers and principals can have an effect on student achievement in math.

Thus, simply assigning homework may not produce the desired effect — in fact, ill - structured homework might even have a negative effect on student achievement.

These studies showing the direct positive effects of raising household income — even by small amounts — on student achievement make it plain that reducing poverty through stable, living wage jobs for all working families would also help improve educational outcomes.

But even that, if you look at the literature, you'll find that about one - third of the studies indicate that by giving feedback within the context of those studies actually had a negative effect on the student achievement.

Promisingly, researchers have found that it is possible to orient students toward positive learning mindsets through low - cost interventions, including online programs that teach students about growth mindsets and purpose.29 According to Carol Dweck and her colleagues, ``... educational interventions and initiatives that target these psychological factors can have transformative effects on students» experience and achievement in school, improving core academic outcomes such as GPA and test scores months and even years later.»

The shoddiness of curricula standards is matched by the slipshod quality of current curricula in schools; only one out of 63 elementary math programs surveyed by the Department of Education has been rated as having «potentially positive» effects on student achievement; even that rating is based on just one study that met the agency's stringent research standards.

But because school effects on average levels of achievement are smaller than the effects of families and communities, even if teachers were the largest school effect, they would not be a very big portion of the overall effect.

When students are grouped and one teacher gets the lowest performing students, another gets the gifted students, and so on, there is no positive impact on student achievement (even with the highest group the effect size is minimal).

These results show that even modest, public pre-K program implemented at scale can have important effects on students» educational achievement.

A study conducted by American Institutes for Research (AIR) for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) shows that even small amounts of the right kind of feedback to teachers and principals can have a positive effect on student achievement in math.

Home visiting programs address this concern; some begin interacting with families even during pregnancy, and continue until a child is as old as 5, and some have shown significant effects on children's emotional well - being, health, and achievement in school.