Sentences with phrase «effects on achievement generated»

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Thus the NRC mantra, repeated with slightly different wording throughout the report: «Despite using them for several decades, policymakers and educators do not yet know how to use test - based incentives to consistently generate positive effects on achievement and to improve education.»

Statewide programs in Florida, Louisiana, and Ohio, however, already have demonstrated clear positive effects on the achievement of students who remain in public schools, confirming Caroline Hoxby's claim (see «Rising Tide,» features, Winter 2001) that competition from choice generates «a rising tide that lifts all boats.»

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.