Not exact matches
The initial duty in applied science, research, or teaching is to do the job well: to design an airplane wing that will hold under stress, to
find a valid equation
for chemical equilibrium, or to help
students gain sound understanding of metabolism.
The
findings put a new spin on weight management priorities
for women in this this age - group, who are prone to abdominal weight
gain, said study investigator Line Mærsk Staunstrup, MSc, a PhD
student with Nordic Bioscience and ProScion, in Herlev, Denmark.
For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping students hold themselves accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her studen
For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping
students hold themselves accountable, but
found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning
gains for all of her studen
for all of her
students.
The Mathematica study of charter middle schools, just released by the U. S. Department of Education,
finds no achievement
gains within two years
for students who won the charter lottery as compared to those who did not.
Study authors Ben Backes of American Institutes
for Research (AIR) and Michael Hansen of the Brookings Institution
found that
students in classrooms of team teachers led by Opportunity Culture «multi-classroom leaders» showed sizeable, statistically significant academic
gains.
Our fundamental
findings from an analysis of the 3rd - and 4th - grade data
for these two years indicate that the performance of
students identified
for retention, regardless of whether they were retained or exempted and promoted, exceeded the performance of low - performing
students from the previous year who were not subject to the retention policy; and
students who were actually retained made the larger relative
gains.
After decades of educational attainment
gains among African American and Latino
students, American educators
find themselves in the midst of a major retraction of many of those
gains for the
students who can least afford it.
We
find that the accountability provisions of NCLB generated large and statistically significant increases in the math achievement of 4th graders and that these
gains were concentrated among African American and Hispanic
students and among
students who were eligible
for subsidized lunch.
In a new article
for Education Next, David Osborne, director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute,
finds Denver's pursuit of this strategy, which has increased school leader autonomy, has produced impressive
gains in
student achievement, leading to growing public support
for the reforms.
Another literature review, conducted by economists Jeffrey Grogger and Derek Neal,
found few clear - cut
gains for white
students, while «urban minorities in Catholic schools fare much better than similar
students in public schools.»
One notable early
finding, Ms. Phillips said, is that teachers who incessantly drill their
students to prepare
for standardized tests tend to have lower value - added learning
gains than those who simply work their way methodically through the key concepts of literacy and mathematics.
Tuttle, et al's recent evaluation of KIPP charter schools also
finds large achievement test
gains for charter
students but little or no attainment benefit.
It
found significant
gains for disadvantaged
students in charter schools but the opposite
for wealthy suburban
students in charter schools.
The authors did
find that test score
gains for lower - scoring
students in lower - performing schools resulted in higher earnings
for those
students.
Although the evaluation
found no impact on
student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school
for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant
gain of more than 5 scale points.
Noe offered this explanation
for the different approaches of two teachers: «For example, although her students were definitely able to carry on literature circle discussions on their own, middle school teacher Janine King found that she gained such valuable assessment information from observing the groups that she couldn't give that
for the different approaches of two teachers: «
For example, although her students were definitely able to carry on literature circle discussions on their own, middle school teacher Janine King found that she gained such valuable assessment information from observing the groups that she couldn't give that
For example, although her
students were definitely able to carry on literature circle discussions on their own, middle school teacher Janine King
found that she
gained such valuable assessment information from observing the groups that she couldn't give that up.
For instance, the median finding across 10 studies of teacher effectiveness estimates that a teacher who is one standard deviation above the average in terms of quality produces additional learning gains for students of 0.12 standard deviations in reading and 0.14 standard deviations in ma
For instance, the median
finding across 10 studies of teacher effectiveness estimates that a teacher who is one standard deviation above the average in terms of quality produces additional learning
gains for students of 0.12 standard deviations in reading and 0.14 standard deviations in ma
for students of 0.12 standard deviations in reading and 0.14 standard deviations in math.
The Center
for Learning in Technology researchers, led by Bill Penuel,
found increased
student engagement, greater responsibility
for learning, increased peer collaboration skills, and greater achievement
gains by
students who had been labeled low achievers.
The extra
gains found for long - term attendance in small classes (in the early grades) continued to appear when
students were returned to standard classes in the upper grades;
A study by researchers at the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt
finds that teachers who were offered rewards of up to $ 15,000 if their
students met goals
for test - score
gains did not outperform teachers who were not offered the bonuses.
Similarly, the Stanford University Center
for Research on Education Outcomes [4]
found in a 2013 study that after only a year, New York City charter school
students gained substantially more in reading and math than their traditional school peers.
The study
found that test scores
for KIPP
students have continued to increase, but that
gains have not been as rapid as they were in the period before the massive expansion.
Stanford University's Center
for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO)
found that NYC charter
students gained an additional one month of learning per year in reading over their district - school peers; in math the advantage was five months of additional learning each year.
In fact, we
found that exposure to the literacy hour significantly improved
students» reading and English achievement, with bigger
gains for boys than
for girls.
For instance, a 2015 study of a privately funded voucher program in New York City
found that being offered a voucher to attend a private school increased college enrollment rates among black and Hispanic
students by 4.4 percentage points, a 10 percent
gain relative to the control group, and also increased bachelor's degree completion rates among black and Hispanic
students by 2.4 percentage points, a 27 percent
gain.
Raj Chetty et al. have
found that increased learning, as measured by tests, predicts earnings
gains for students a decade later.
An analysis conducted
for Quality Counts 2006 by the EPE Research Center
found a positive relationship between states that had pursued a standards - based education agenda and
gains in
student achievement.
Provided the movement of teachers in and out of a grade has not changed the makeup of
students enrolled in that grade, this
finding supports the conclusion that measured value - added of teachers is an unbiased predictor of future test - score
gains, as there appears to be no other explanation
for the resulting improvement in test scores.
The
findings are consistent with lottery - based evidence
for the full
student population that shows that charter schools with these characteristics also generate academic
gains for the full
student population in Boston, [5] Denver, [6] and New York.
The
findings — that teachers at all levels of experience can learn new skills from peers that translate into
gains for students — might help fortify a new and less costly approach to professional development.
A 2011 meta - analysis looking at over 270,000
students,
for example,
found that
students who participated in an SEL program showed academic
gains of more than 11 percentile points over those who had not participated.
Mark Berends and colleagues, as reported in their essay
for this forum,
found that
students who persisted in the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program
for four years experienced reading
gains.
The Boston study of just over 2,000
students in the public school district's universal program
for 4 - to -5-year-olds
found greater
gains in vocabulary and math
for participating
students compared with nonparticipants, after one year, than seen in any other study of other large - scale pre-K programs around the US.
Academic
Gains, Double the # of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study
Finds Large Academic
Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools
for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts
for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future
for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for Nevada
Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas
for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities
for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies
for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools
for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision
For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Differe
For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?
But the evidence on test score
gains is massive: CREDO has studied dozens of cities and have
found an overall effect of ~.1
for urban areas serving hundreds of thousands of
students.
Further, another respected international assessment of
student performance, the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), found gains of only 0.5 percent of a standard deviation annually for U.S. students over roughly the same time
student performance, the Program
for International
Student Assessment (PISA), found gains of only 0.5 percent of a standard deviation annually for U.S. students over roughly the same time
Student Assessment (PISA),
found gains of only 0.5 percent of a standard deviation annually
for U.S.
students over roughly the same time period.
At the two year mark, they
found no significant achievement effects
for students who were offered vouchers, but their third - year results
found voucher recipients making outsized reading
gains.
He notes that, although few studies have examined the impact of choice on public school
students, most every
finding to date suggests that vouchers, rather than adversely affecting
students who are «left behind» in public schools, actually lead to
gains for public and private school
students.
A study by Stanford's Center
for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO)
finds that over the course of three years, Texas charter school
students on average
gained the equivalent of 17 more days of reading instruction per year than their district school peers.
They
found that a principal in the top 16 percent of the quality distribution will produce annual
student gains that are at least 0.05 standard deviations higher than will an average principal
for all
students in their school, or roughly two additional months of learning.
The
findings were striking: «Charter school takeovers in the New Orleans Recovery School District appear to have generated substantial achievement
gains for a highly disadvantaged
student population that enrolled in these schools passively.»
The Mathematica Policy Research report
found that, after three years in the schools,
students showed
gains in math equal to 1.2 years of extra instruction and in reading almost a full extra year of improvement compared to outcomes
for students in schools with similar demographics.
We
found that after middle school and high school teachers worked with ASMP mentors
for just one year, their
students from diverse backgrounds make statistically significant
gains in math compared with
students taught by «business - as - usual» teachers.
It is hard to ignore the buzz around social and emotional learning (SEL) and the research
findings documenting the value of SEL programs
for student behavior and academic
gains.
High success rates on tasks were also
found to be related to learning
gains, with higher optimum success rates
found for low - ability than
for high - ability
students.
A 2011 meta - analysis study of more than 30 studies (including the oft - cited 2011 Friedman Foundation Report) by the Center
for Education Policy
found that «the empirical evidence on vouchers is inconclusive and further
found that any
gains in
student achievement are modest if they exist at all» (amicus brief, Schwartz v. López, 2016).
At my school, we've
found that understanding and including the social - emotional needs of our
students in our teaching makes
for excellent academic
gains.
Researchers
found that KIPP's achievement
gains are similar
for the matched comparison design and the experimental lottery analysis — demonstrating that parental motivation can not explain our
student's achievement
gains.
Controlling
for many potential confounds, we also
found that only more frequent use of teacher - directed instructional practices was consistently and significantly associated with residualized (value added)
gains in the mathematics achievement of first - grade
students with prior histories of MD [i.e., mathematics difficulties].
Overview It is hard to ignore the buzz around social and emotional learning and the research
findings documenting the value of SEL programs
for student behavior and academic
gains.