school - based factors that
explain differences in student performance and program implementation (e.g., instructional expertise, curriculum implementation, learning gaps, staffing, leadership, material resources);
This is a significant opportunity, given that the evidence suggests that teacher quality is the most important school factor in
explaining differences in student performance.
Not exact matches
Before Putnam employed the concept to
explain differences in governmental
performance between northern and southern Italy, Coleman and his colleagues developed it to theorize why
students in Catholic schools excel academically relative to their public school peers.
Notwithstanding this debate, the international variation
in student performance levels
in mathematics and science is a fact, and it is generally accepted that
differences in the amount of resources given to the education sector do not fully
explain why
performance levels vary.
My working hypothesis is that
differences in educational institutions
explain more of the international variation
in student performance than
differences in the resources nations devote to schooling.
Even
in places where low - income and minority
students are disproportionately assigned less - effective teachers, such
differences explain only a small share of the total
difference in performance between high - income and low - income
students.
In OECD countries generally, a large percentage of between - school variation in student performance is «explained» by differences in students» and schools» socioeconomic circumstance
In OECD countries generally, a large percentage of between - school variation
in student performance is «explained» by differences in students» and schools» socioeconomic circumstance
in student performance is «
explained» by
differences in students» and schools» socioeconomic circumstance
in students» and schools» socioeconomic circumstances.
Hanushek points out that actual spending increases during the time period they studied was more like 100 percent, gaps have not closed, and other explanations for low
performance such as increases
in the numbers of
students in poverty don't
explain the
difference.
If there are large discrepancies between the aggregate
performances of
students on different measures that are not
explained by
differences in the skills and content they are measuring, this is a flag for further examination of how the assessments are being designed or scored.
But it does
explain why research shows that the
difference between teachers only accounts for at most 20 % of the variance
in student test
performance.
The paper suggests that international
differences in educational institutions
explain the large international
differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests.