Integrating art with content brings about
the greatest gains in student achievement.
The RAND Corporation published a paper in 2000 citing both Texas and North Carolina as the two states that got it right and made
the greatest gains in student achievement in the decade.
The greatest gains in student achievement come from the classrooms of our expert teachers.
Studies conducted by Mathematica Policy Research show that KIPP schools achieve significantly
greater gains in student achievement than do traditional public schools teaching similar students.
More and more, however, districts across the nation are seeing
great gains in student achievement by employing a different model of family engagement — teacher home visits.
They find that there's much
greater gain in student achievement in a school when people work collaboratively in teams and when teams of teachers stay together over a period of time and build their collective know ledge and collective capacity.
Since the state intervention in Philadelphia schools, the district is now celebrating
great gains in student achievement, gains that are more than 10 times what the district had achieved in the past decade.
Not exact matches
Parents assign higher grades to schools with higher levels of
student achievement, not schools
in which
students demonstrate
greater gains.
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 improvement approach would first identify a set of K - 12 districts that have realized the
greatest gains in measured
student achievement over a multi-year period.
A recent Council of the
Great City Schools report hailed Houston for «beating the odds» by generating sizable
gains in student achievement.
Results indicated that those
students in the small class made
greater gains in reading
achievement compared to those
in the larger class.»
The results presented here —
greater teacher performance as measured by
student achievement gains in years following TES review — strongly suggest that teachers develop skills or otherwise change their behavior
in a lasting manner as a result of undergoing subjective performance evaluation
in the TES process.
Focusing on
student engagement can foster
great gains in schools» academic, emotional, social, and behavioral
achievement.
To be meaningful,
achievement gains must result from
greater student understanding, and they must be important
in some educational sense.
Equipped with this understanding, teachers know they must create more challenging and personalized lessons
in the knowledge that they are helping
students to «wire their brains» for
greater achievement gains.
The broad conclusion bears repeating —
in both reading and math and at all three ages tested, each of the three major racial / ethnic groups made
greater gains in achievement than
students did overall.
At Edmentum, we work hard each year to invest
in our products
in ways that will have the
greatest impact for educators and the most
achievement gains for
students.
When the overall population contains a
greater share of
students from lower - performing racial / ethnic groups, then
achievement must go up even more to produce
gains in the average score for all
students.
Unfortunately, though, the main premise of the equity argument has not been fulfilled — inner - city poor
students attending private schools with vouchers
in general show no
greater gains in academic
achievement than comparable
students in public schools.
Maryland's public school
students made
greater gains on a national standardized test than their peers
in nearly every other state, although the
achievement gap between white and minority
students persists.
Similarly,
in the schools we studied whose plans reflected a belief that teaching and leadership affect
student achievement,
achievement gains were three times
greater than they were
in schools whose plans reflected a focus on
student demographic characteristics as the primary determinants of
student achievement (Reeves,
in press).
And a new study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University — although not studying the important question of whether teachers who receive high scores on TAP evaluations tend to produce
greater gains in their
students» test scores — found that a small sample of secondary schools using TAP produced no higher levels of
student achievement than schools that hadn't implemented the TAP program.
While experiencing
great gains in student academic
achievement, Reynoldsburg Junior High School has also gone through a significant organizational transformation.
These findings indicate that
students in classrooms implementing
Great Expectations ® methodology showed
greater gains in student academic
achievement during the school year compared to demographically similar
students not exposed to GE.
Teachers who more effectively demonstrated the types of practices emphasized
in any given system had
greater student achievement gains than other teachers.
Since the partnership began,
student achievement scores have experienced double - digit
gains, and teacher candidates report
greater confidence
in their science pedagogy.
Achievement on the DC - CAS math test increased by 29 percentage points to 67 %, the
greatest student gain of any DC high school
in 2013 — 2014
«Some teachers reliably elicit
greater gains [
in student achievement] than others, because of the differences
in how they teach» (Brophy, 1992).
As Commissioner of Education, Dianna Wentzell commented, «
In some cases, students in choice programs made greater academic gains than their peers not enrolled in these programs (students in traditional public schools), thereby closing the achievement gap, while in other cases they did not.&raqu
In some cases,
students in choice programs made greater academic gains than their peers not enrolled in these programs (students in traditional public schools), thereby closing the achievement gap, while in other cases they did not.&raqu
in choice programs made
greater academic
gains than their peers not enrolled
in these programs (students in traditional public schools), thereby closing the achievement gap, while in other cases they did not.&raqu
in these programs (
students in traditional public schools), thereby closing the achievement gap, while in other cases they did not.&raqu
in traditional public schools), thereby closing the
achievement gap, while
in other cases they did not.&raqu
in other cases they did not.»
In addition to notable gains in Math achievement, students have also had greater opportunities to develop digital literacy, set personal goals, work collaboratively, and practice self - governance when doing independent work — real - world skills that will serve them well throughout their academic careers and beyon
In addition to notable
gains in Math achievement, students have also had greater opportunities to develop digital literacy, set personal goals, work collaboratively, and practice self - governance when doing independent work — real - world skills that will serve them well throughout their academic careers and beyon
in Math
achievement,
students have also had
greater opportunities to develop digital literacy, set personal goals, work collaboratively, and practice self - governance when doing independent work — real - world skills that will serve them well throughout their academic careers and beyond.
Philadelphia's experience with outsourcing the management of 45 schools showed that even with additional expenditures,
student achievement gains were no
greater in those managed by outside organizations than
in those remaining under district management (Gill, Zimmer, Christman, & Blanc, 2007).
However, evidence is emerging that shows that arts education can have powerful effects on
student achievement, with the
greatest gains for
students in the lowest socioeconomic status quartile, those most at risk of academic failure.
Children
in full - day kindergarten made
greater gains in both reading and math
achievement —
gains that close the
achievement gap between the highest and lowest performing
students by nearly one - third
in reading and by one - fourth
in math.