Sentences with phrase «effects on test score»

In conversion charters, the type of school with the most advantaged student population, the effects on test score growth were negative and significant for all four cohorts.

We find some small differences across charter types, but none of the charter school enrollment effects on test score growth for any cohort were positive among any of the three types examined.

We examined charter school effects on test score growth overall, by charter type, and across four different cohorts of students, only for those students who remain in a charter or traditional public school during the time series.

The central finding is that exit exams do not have a statistically significant effect on test scores.

To measure the effect on test scores of the retirements resulting from the ERI program, we exploit the fact that teachers with more years of experience were much more likely to be affected by the program.

But what about programs that have had a negative effect on test scores, such as those in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio?

Finally, earlier evaluations of these programs found neutral to positive effects on test scores.

Work we conducted separately in 2007 and 2008 provides much stronger evidence of effects on test scores from year - to - year changes in the length of the school year due to bad weather.

As the arguments for and against the Arizona ballot question have unfurled in recent months, the California measure's effect on test scores has attracted widespread attention.

The recently released study of the program examines its effects on test scores for students that have used vouchers for one, two, three, or four years.

Figure 1, below, shows measures of test - score impacts, starting with the four studies at the top, and then effects on test scores from previous studies, roughly in reverse historical order.

The study takes pains to look at alternative matching approaches and different ways to estimate effects on test scores.

We also lack evidence of how public schools and private schools differ in their instructional and teaching strategies that would explain negative effects on test scores.

Ohio's statewide program has shown clear negative effects on test scores.

The achievement effects of choice programs after just one or two years may well turn out to be misleading indicators of the longer - term effects on test scores and attainment.

The fallacy is in assuming that the majority of choice studies reporting positive effects on test scores is the same majority of choice studies reporting positive effects on attainment.

The fallacy is in assuming that the majority of choice studies reporting positive effects on test scores

Only one study, conducted by Jay Greene and Marcus Winters and focusing on the D.C. voucher program, found that voucher competition had no effect on the test scores of non-participants, while no empirical study of acceptable rigor has found that a U.S. private - school - choice program decreased the achievement of public school students.

Related literature on estimating teacher effects on test scores includes refs.

If I had to bet on which intervention is most likely to work at scale, I'd be inclined to bet on a massive data set that found positive effects on test scores rather than a very narrow data set of three studies where only two study found higher degree attainment.

As Jay points out, the most rigorous charter research finds positive effects on test scores rather than attainment.

Studies of these programs had shown large and negative effects on test scores by students who participate in them.

Beginning with the New York Times's front - page splash about an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) study in August of 2004 («Nation's Charter Schools Lagging Behind, U.S. Test Scores Reveal»), it seems that every study, no matter how problematic, has spawned a headline, simply because it talks about charters» effects on test scores.

When I look within a three - mile radius, I find no evidence of spillover effects on test scores of students at district schools, positive or negative.

Moreover, genetic influences need not have the same effect on test scores throughout the lifecycle, since any genetic effects may be amplified over time if they also affect the environmental influences that people seek out for themselves.

We focus most of the evaluation on grade 3 achievement, but we also extend our analysis to examine curriculum effects on test scores in grades 4 and 5.

But the total effect on test scores also increases because the positive effect of adding a day to the school year is always greater than the negative effect of the needed reduction in class size.

Curriculum - based external exit exam systems had by far the greatest effects on test scores.

The hybrid end - of - course / minimum - competency exam systems that have been in place in New York State since the early 1980s and in North Carolina since about 1990 clearly had the largest effects on test scores.

The LTT presents a perfect opportunity to fulfill that Strategic Vision by explaining trends in the achievement gap among various populations, and demonstrating the effects on test scores of changing demographics.

Gormley finds that Tulsa's pre-k program has significant effects on test scores at kindergarten readiness for all three groups.

As in NZ, all flopped — no effect on tests scores, but that was not the biggest failure of the choice programs.

Differences among schools do not have much effect on test scores in reading and mathematics.

«It may just be too early to be having an effect on test scores — we don't really know.»

Teaching to the test might account for ephemeral effects on test scores but can hardly account for long - term benefits.

Jackson also found that a teacher's supposed effect on test scores is not related to how well that teacher can improve non-cognitive skills.

Student absences have a more significant effect on test scores.

Our preferred models suggest that the combined average effects on test scores of investments in both programs at 2009 funding levels are equivalent to two to four months of instruction in grade 3.

But using a different statistical method that compares Renewal schools to similar ones that didn't receive extra resources, Teachers College's Pallas found the program appeared to have no effect on test scores or graduation rates.

We know from the body of school choice research on the experimental effects on test scores that short term test scores may not be predictive of long term achievement or attainment.

The bounceback of long - run effects, after early effects on test scores have significantly decreased, is not unusual in early childhood programs.

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.

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Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.

And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losses — which force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.

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«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

Fariña recently told Capital she believes some charter schools can have a positive effect on the public system, while knocking others (without naming specific schools) for touting high test scores, but not accepting special education or English Language Learner students.

On April 9, the DOE announced that a new promotion policy that takes into account teachers» and principals» recommendations rather than students» test scores would take effect this school year.

The researchers from the University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm, studied the test scores measuring cognitive ability of children aged between 10 and 13, and found they had a strong effect on a child's subsequent educational performance.

However, evidence from both small - scale, intensive interventions and Head Start suggest that despite this convergence on test scores, there are long - term effects on important societal outcomes such as years of education completed, earnings, and reduced crime and teen pregnancy.