Sentences with phrase «effects on student achievement of»

Research is also clear about the positive effects on student achievement of teachers with stronger academic backgrounds.

By the sixth year, the researchers will measure the effects on student achievement of principals who have emerged from these pipelines.

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.

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Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects of low levels of parents» education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the educators — as well as the negative effects of family socioeconomic variables and race displayed in public schools.

None of these fads appears to have the least effect on student achievement.

Coleman Report had concluded that «schools are remarkably similar in the effect they have on the achievement of their pupils when the socio - economic background of the students is taken into account.»

«We use exogenous variation from an ERI program in Illinois in the mid-1990s to provide the first evidence in the literature of the effects of large - scale teacher retirements on student achievement.

The IR's achievements can ultimately be measured in terms of its effects on the graduate student population.

Depending on how many students at a given school live in poverty, strong parental networks have a favorable or inhibiting effect on the academic achievements of their children.

Since the No Child Left Behind Act went into effect in 2002, more data than ever have been made available on schools, the quality of their teachers, and their student achievement.

The turnover of high - performing teachers is a challenging problem but, in DCPS, we find that the exit of high performers generally has small and statistically insignificant effects on student achievement.»

Of the three alternative certification pathways studied, teachers who enter through the path requiring no coursework in education have the greatest effect on student achievement, substantially larger than that of traditionally prepared teacherOf the three alternative certification pathways studied, teachers who enter through the path requiring no coursework in education have the greatest effect on student achievement, substantially larger than that of traditionally prepared teacherof traditionally prepared teachers.

Harrington, an assistant professor of public affairs, said NCLB has been in effect for more than 10 years, and prior research on the program mostly has focused on student achievement.

By contrast, just four states base a majority of schools» summative ratings on «growth for all students,» though this is the best way to evaluate a school's effect on student achievement.

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.

Matt Chingos of Brookings and Guido Schwerdt of the University of Konstanz are out today with a new Program on Education Policy and Governance working paper that provides, to my knowledge, the first credible evidence on the effects of online courses on student achievement in K - 12 schools.

Burris combines reviews of academic studies, as well as personal anecdotes from her own experience as an educator, to argue that ability tracking has a negative effect on the educational achievement of «low track» students while also undermining social cohesion.

Growing Minds: The Effect of a School Gardening Program on the Science Achievement of Elementary Students (PDF).

Service learning can have positive effects on students» performance on subject - matter examinations and assessments and creates opportunities known to improve academic achievement, such as giving students the chance to act autonomously, develop good relationships with adults and peers, and increase personal self - esteem and feelings of self - efficacy.

Evidence on the achievement effects of desegregation by income is limited by both an absence of detailed information on family income (including indicators for severe poverty or high income) and the difficulty in separating the effects of students» own circumstances from the influences of peers.

The power of culture - and its effect on student achievement - is evident in adolescents» lesser concentration on academic endeavors as they focus more on television, video games, and excessive employment during the school year.

Our present approach also assumes that each year of charter schooling has the same effect on student achievement.

The basic strategy we use to evaluate the effect of charter schools on student achievement is to compare students who are awarded a seat in a charter school through a lottery with students who enter the lottery but are not awarded a seat.

We also estimated a separate effect on achievement for each of the 32 charter schools with students in grades 3 through 8.

The landmark 1966 Coleman Report highlighted the importance of peer environment along a number of dimensions, but work by Caroline Hoxby and Gretchen Weingarth in 2006 suggests that the share of poor students has only a modest effect on achievement once differences in the prior achievement of students have been accounted for.

And the topics covered in those pages extend far beyond bread - and - butter questions of salary and benefits; there are dozens of clauses covering a district's ability to evaluate, transfer, terminate, and manage the workload of teachers, all having potentially serious effects on the management of schools and student achievement.

However, this is exactly the facile logic invoked by Hanushek regarding the effect of school spending on student achievement.

The most extreme claim in the essay, among many, is that «the effect of vouchers on student achievement is larger than the following in - school factors: exposure to violent crime at school...» Yep, you read that correctly: selecting a private school for your child is as damaging to them as witnessing school violence.

We will estimate the effect of the retesting policy on all students across the distribution of achievement, not just the effect on the students who are retested.

We also drew on an additional year of data, from the 2012 13 school year, in assessing IMPACT's effects on student achievement in tested grades and subjects.

In high - poverty schools, we estimate that the overall effect of all teacher turnover on student achievement is 0.08 of a standard deviation in math and 0.05 of a standard deviation in reading.

In his 2014 academic paper — The achievement effects of tardy classmates: Evidence in urban elementary schools — Michael Gottfried explores the impact of tardy students» behaviour on their peers.

Despite these differences, the bulk of the available, high - quality evidence on school voucher programs suggests that they do yield positive achievement effects for participating students.

That suggests that any estimates of the effect of teacher gender on girls» math achievement may well be biased by the fact that women are more likely to be assigned to lower - performing math students.

Teachers / leaders believe that their fundamental task is to evaluate the effect of their teaching on students learning and achievement.

Arguably, the most important development in K — 12 education over the past decade has been the emergence of a growing number of urban schools that have been convincingly shown to have dramatic positive effects on the achievement of disadvantaged students.

To determine the effect of teacher turnover on student achievement under IMPACT, we examine the year - to - year changes in school - grade combinations with and without teacher turnover.

We find that the overall effect of teacher turnover in DCPS at worst had no adverse effect on student achievement and, under reasonable assumptions, improved it.

With the exception of math achievement in one year (2011 12), however, the effect of this turnover on student achievement is not statistically significant.

In related work conducted in Massachusetts, Harvard economist Josh Goodman finds no effects of school closures on student achievement but large negative effects of weather - induced absences on moderately snowy days when schools remained open.

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.

Examining longer - term effects, however, the study's authors found that double - dosed students» scores on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade) were 0.15 standard deviations higher, the equivalent of closing roughly 15 % of the black - white achievement gap.

Consistent with the Wisconsin evidence, parallel studies in Colorado and Maryland found that weather - related differences in the number of days students had spent in school when they were tested had noticeable effects on their achievement.

The major substantive chapters of the book place Swedish expenditure and achievement in comparative perspective (in both, Sweden rates high); show that the decline in education inputs during the 1990s worsened the teacher - student ratio and teacher quality; review the international research on the effects of school choice; and test for the effects of school choice in Sweden on achievement.

To our knowledge, no existing studies offer convincing evidence on the causal effect of G&T programs on student achievement.

If that is the case, our results yield information on the effect of ERI programs on student achievement, but it could be misleading to use them to predict the effects of the impending spike in teacher retirements due to the aging of the teacher workforce.

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.

Of the more than 1,300 studies identified as potentially addressing the effect of teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this linOf the more than 1,300 studies identified as potentially addressing the effect of teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this linof teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this linof rigorous studies that directly examine this link.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

The main difficulty in measuring the effect of teacher retirement on student achievement is that retirement decisions may both affect and be affected by student performance.