Sentences with phrase «effects on their academic achievement»

Amid the uproar about youth morality, the effect on academic achievement was overlooked.

We know that chronic hunger seriously undermines kids» physical and mental development, increases behavioral problems, encourages risky behavior and has lasting, detrimental effects on academic achievement and later job performance.

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.

This can have a negative effect on their academic achievement, as well as later success in life.

Magnet schools appear to have little effect on academic achievement, preliminary findings from a new study suggest.

Looking beyond just performance levels, the Suárez - Orozcos discovered that behavior was strongly linked to grade point average and that English proficiency had a huge effect on academic achievement.

The number of years that K - 3 pupils spend in classes with fewer children seems to have little effect on their academic achievement, a study suggests.

In «New Kids on the Block,» (research), Sanbonmatsu, Kling, Duncan, and Brooks - Gunn report the findings of their MTO study and offer several possible explanations for the program's lack of overall positive effects on academic achievement.

Researchers expected that the move to a better neighborhood would have discernible effects on the academic achievement of the children involved, yet MTO data from the five cities show no overall positive impact on the children's learning.

The Chicago trial provided evidence that the program affected perceptions of school and academic climate and had a small effect on academic achievement over the period covered by the study.

The effects on academic achievement are greatest for students from higher income families, while the effects on behavior are more pronounced on students who are less well - off.

Charter schools such as KIPP and the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy have large positive effects on the academic achievement of their (mostly disadvantaged) students.

For example, in describing the results of Title I, Jennings concludes, «In a nutshell, the billions of dollars spent on Title I had at best a modest effect on the academic achievement of the disadvantaged students who participated in the program...» On No Child Left Behind (NCLB), he writes, «So it truly was a mixed bag.

One possible explanation for the negative effects on academic achievement is that the better schools opted not to accept LSP students because the program was over-regulated.

This lack of a strong role for measured characteristics motivates interest in unmeasured characteristics of teachers that have a causal effect on academic achievement.

One study, by Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution, predicted that the standards would have little or no effect on academic achievement; he noted that «from 2003 to 2009, states with terrific standards raised their National Assessment of Educational Progress scores by roughly the same margin as states with awful ones.»

Spending 20 minutes at the start of the school day to help students talk through issues they may be having and practice social and emotional skills can have positive effects on their academic achievement.

Summer learning loss can have compounding effects on academic achievement — if a student is already struggling with learning to read, a summer setback can make it that much more difficult for the student to be reading to learn by fourth grade.

Students of color are overrepresented in these categories, all of which have deleterious effects on academic achievement.18 Jiang, Y., Ekono, M., & Skinner, C. (2015, January).

Medication compliance has generally been shown to be poor the longer a child is on a medication, and medication alone will likely have little effect on academic achievement, family problems or problems with relationships with their friends.

Davis - Kean (2005) studied 8 to 12 - year - old children and found similar patterns with African Americans; parental expectations had a direct significant effect on academic achievement for European American but not for African American students.

The development of emotional and behavioral self - regulation and their effects on academic achievement in childhood.

Not exact matches

His legacy of writings and the Faith movement remain a remarkable achievement for someone who never really held any academic posts but was, in his quiet way, a «charismatic» figure, much loved by many and whose thinking and unique apostolate had a profound effect, especially on the young.

While Duncan and Magnuson indicate that family income has a preponderant causal effect on both children's cognitive and economic development and on their academic achievements, they also suggest that economic improvement will not, in itself, necessarily resolve psychosocial development and behavioural problems.

«This inspired us to initiate a long - term study on the possible effects of music education on cognitive skills that may underlie academic achievement.»

However, the fact that we demonstrated associations between cognition and cardiovascular fitness but not muscle strength, the differential link to some domains over others, and the longitudinal prediction by cardiovascular fitness at age 18 y on subsequent academic achievement speak in favor of a cardiovascular effect on brain function.

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.

The rigor and relevance of his work — on subjects ranging from the long - term benefits of the Head Start program, the value of degrees from for - profit colleges, and the effects of racial segregation on academic achievement and life outcomes — make his findings absolutely essential reading for academics and policymakers alike,» said Dean James Ryan.

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.

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.

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.

Quaglia: A narrow focus on the academic and the lack of attention to the affective and social causes of academic achievement is having a detrimental effect on both boys and girls.

Robert Rosenthal, Professor Emeritus at Harvard and an expert in the technique of meta - analysis, calls the study, «A truly scholarly and scientific look at what is known about the effects of arts study on academic achievement... a major achievement.»

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.

By far the largest and most comprehensive study on this topic ever conducted, «THE ARTS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS,» confirms claims that listening to music temporarily enhances spatial skills (the controversial «Mozart Effect»), as well as claims that children who study music gain skill in spatial reasoning.

The Causal Effect of School Start Time on the Academic Achievement of Adolescents,» American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011.

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

The key question is whether KIPP's positive effects on learning are attributable to a peer environment that is more conducive to academic achievement than the peer environment found in traditional public schools.

Although the study showed that parents» involvement in school events still had a positive effect on adolescents» achievement, it did not rank as highly as parents conveying the importance of academic performance, relating educational goals to occupational aspirations, and discussing learning strategies.

How large are the effects of mindset on academic achievement?

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

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).

Findings: New York, NY — While the authors found no visible effect on participants as a whole, they also divided students into quintiles based on student achievement and found no visible effects on academic outcomes in any quintile.

These lotteries provide the basis for an unusually large and rigorous study, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, of the effects of SSCs on students» academic achievement.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive outcomes that include positive effects on math scores, grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of grade 8; increased achievement on language arts, literacy, math, and science, as well as decreased grade retention and special education placement at the end of grade 5; and stronger than typical impacts on academic readiness (effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.

The effect of primary school size on academic achievement.

A meta - analysis: The effects of parental involvement on minority children's academic achievement.

The effects of school, family, and community support on the academic achievement of African American adolescents.

Marisa Castellano and Kirsten Sundell, co-principal investigators of the Rigorous Tests of Student Outcomes in CTE Programs of Study project, are wrapping up the fourth and final year of data collection for their study of the effects of POS / career pathways on student academic and technical achievement.