Published by the Expanded Learning and Afterschool Project, this article explains why quality afterschool programs can have such a profound
effect on student attendance.
Not exact matches
Research (download) also suggests that career academies have a positive
effect on students» postsecondary opportunities including increased college
attendance and increased earnings.
Charter school
attendance also appears to have a modest positive
effect on reading scores, though this estimate falls short of statistical significance due to the relatively small number of
students in our lottery sample.
Teacher specialization, a model in which teachers specialize in certain subjects and teach them to a rotating group of
students, has a negative
effect on student scores,
attendance, and behavior in an elementary school setting, according to a new working paper by Fryer, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Noble Street College Prep admits
students via randomized lottery, allowing the authors to estimate the
effect of
attendance on postsecondary outcomes by comparing Noble
students to their peers who lost the lottery using college enrollment data from the National
Student Clearinghouse.
(p, 18) College
attendance benefits are also fleeting: «Similar to the results for high school graduation, however, control
students eventually catch up and make the treatment
effects on college enrollment insignificant.»
Commentary
on «Great Teaching: Measuring its
effects on students» future earnings» By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high - value - added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise
student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts
on students, as reflected in college
attendance, earnings, -LSB-...]
These patterns suggest that the positive
effects of charter school
attendance on educational attainment are not due solely to measured differences in the achievement of
students in charter and traditional public high schools.
, American Economic Review, 2005; Anna Egalite, Brian Kisida, and Marcus Winters, «Representation in the Classroom: The
Effect of Own - Race Teachers
on Student Achievement», Economics of Education Review, 2015; Stephen Holt and Seth Gershenson, «The Impact of Teacher Demographic Representation
on Student Attendance and Suspensions», IZA discussion paper 9554, 2015; and Constance Lindsay and Cassandra Hart, «Exposure to Same - Race Teachers and
Student Disciplinary Outcomes for Black
Students in North Carolina», Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017.
And to turn back to school choice for a moment, Imberman finds that charters in an unnamed urban district had no
effect on student tests scores — but had large positive
effects on discipline and
attendance.
For example, in a recent Evidence Speaks post, Jing Liu and Susanna Loeb reported that high school teachers have differential
effects on unexcused class absences — that is, when
students miss only part of the school day — highlighting how the academic environment can influence school
attendance.
If you run a small school in a poor city, and you're trying to boost outcomes for your
students by awarding scholarships to encourage
attendance and achievement, do you give the scholarships to the best
students, or to the neediest?As it turns out, both pathways have beneficial
effects on...
In Ohio, for example, state leaders devised alternative graduation pathways for the class of ’18 based
on such feeble criteria as
attendance rates and course grades, in
effect allowing allow
students to leave high school without demonstrating actual readiness for anything that follows.
It has been difficult to study the
effects of private school
attendance on indicators of
students» character development, such as their behavior in school, owing to differences in disciplinary norms between sectors.
Finally, the only study to have estimated the
effect of charter school
attendance on students» job prospects, although based
on nonexperimental methods, finds that attending a Florida charter school increased
students» earnings as adults despite having no impact
on their standardized test scores.
Though the increase in school
attendance among disciplined
students led to only very modest improvements in their academic performance
on state reading exams, it did not have a substantively negative
effect on their peers» academic performance.
Research
on charter schools and non-tested outcomes is sparser, but two recent studies examined long - term
effects of charter school
attendance on students in Florida and Texas.
The purpose of this article is to assess the causal
effects of charter school
attendance and a closely related alternative, called pilot schools,
on student achievement.
We use
student assignment lotteries to estimate the
effect of charter school
attendance on student achievement in Boston.
Although, as the authors note, «most non-urban
students do reasonably well in any case,» the causal
effect of a year of non-urban charter
attendance is a substantial reduction in achievement in all levels and subjects,
on the order of 0.16 standard deviations in middle school with almost a quarter of a standard deviation decline in high school math.
To assess the spillover
effect of charter schools
on students at district schools, I analyze how individual
students» test scores,
attendance, and grade progression change in response to exposure to a charter school.
Curriculum - based exit exams substantially increased the college -
attendance rates of
students with low GPAs in 8th grade, but had no
effect on students with high GPAs.
The agreement proposes to evaluate a teacher's
effect on students» learning in part with an unusual mix of individual and school - wide data from such sources as state standardized tests, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of high school graduation,
attendance and suspensions.
The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld a busing statute allowing private school
students to ride
on public school buses against a challenge brought under one of Minnesota's Blaine Amendments (Article XIII, Section 2) because the program's primary purpose and
effect was neither to benefit nor support religious schools, despite providing incidental and indirect encouragement of private school
attendance.
Episode Info: Instead of just looking at the
effect teachers have
on the test scores of their
students, researchers have expanded their focus to include the impact of teachers
on student attendance and the long run outcomes of their
students.
In addition to the
effect these absences have
on student achievement, they also cost the school districts money, since the Texas state revenue formula is based
on daily
attendance.
Findings in the existing literature of
effects of school size show small schools advantage
on curricular diversity, academic achievement, daily
attendance rates, teacher and
student morale,
student and parent participation, etc..
Some studies show positive
effects on attendance and outcomes in smaller districts, although a 2010 Georgia study found
students had improved passing rates
on state - administered exams in larger districts.
From increasing test scores, to calmer classrooms and better
attendance and graduation rates, school meals have proven to have a huge
effect on students» abilities to learn.
Abella (2005) noted in her study of Miami - Dade County schools that K — 8
students had significant short - term beneficial
effects on achievement,
attendance, and suspension rates.
This paper provides new evidence
on the
effects of new school facilities
on student academic outcomes and
attendance rates, linking $ 9 billion in facilities spending to 5 million
student - year records in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) from 2002 - 2012.
Increasing racial, ethnic, linguistic, socio - economic, and gender diversity in the teacher workforce can have a positive
effect for all
students, but the impact is even more pronounced when
students have a teacher who shares characteristics of their identity.20 For example, teachers of color are often better able to engage
students of color, 21 and
students of color score higher
on standardized tests when taught by teachers of color.22 By holding
students of color to a set of high expectations, 23 providing culturally relevant teaching, confronting racism through teaching, and developing trusting relationships with their
students, teachers of color can increase other educational outcomes for
students of color, such as high school completion and college
attendance.24
Skeptics could argue that positive
effects on graduation and postsecondary
attendance could be illusorily if schools are setting lower graduation standards and not actually preparing their
students for college or employment.
He is also an expert
on charter schools, having participated in several studies of the
effects of charter schools
on student performance, including a study for the Gates Foundation examining impacts of charter schools in 7 states
on graduation and college
attendance outcomes.
The negative
effect that absences have
on achievement suggests that lengthening the school day or year will not necessarily have the desired
effect of raising
student performance, but that policies to improve
attendance might help.
We know, for example, that the average is the wrong measurement of
student proficiency (O'Connor, 2007); that the zero
on a 100 - point scale is a math error (Reeves, 2004); and that the implementation of effective grading practices can have a positive
effect on student achievement, discipline, and
attendance (Reeves, 2008).
Effect of full - time versus part - time school nurses
on attendance of elementary
students with asthma.
Results of the study suggest that
students displaced by school closures can experience adverse
effects on test scores and
attendance; however, these
effects can be minimized when
students move to substantially higher - performing schools.
(I) the allowance (applicable to the
student) for room and board included in the cost of
attendance (as defined in section 472 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087ll), as in
effect on the date of the enactment of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001) as determined by the eligible educational institution for such period, or
The authors examined the results by program type and found that alternative educational programs (programs involving a group of
students in a traditional school) and behavioral programs (programs targeting school behaviors and increasing problem - solving skills with a system of rewards and punishments) had significant positive
effects on attendance and enrollment measures.