Not exact matches
There is precious little research demonstrating the value of school counselors
on student achievement ~ with good reason it is difficult to demonstrate the
impact of counselors
on standardized test
scores ~ which
have come to define
achievement in recent years.
Educational outcomes are shaped by many factors, but research shows that teacher quality is the most important in - school factor influencing
student achievement.59 Of course, other out - of - school factors, which are often caused by poverty, can also influence
student outcomes.60 Because teacher quality
has been shown to
have a measurable
impact on standardized test
scores, some academics
have started trying to directly measure the
impact of Act 10
on student outcomes by examining how
students fared
on standardized tests after its passage.
«For the most representative sample of black elementary school
students, offering a voucher
had no statistically discernible
impact on achievement scores in the New York City experiment.»
The positions are being eliminated — I believe because of the lack of direct data within our school or district that shows what we do
has an
impact on student achievement, even though dozens of studies show that we do, such as the Keith Curry Lance studies in Colorado (http://www.lrs.org/documents/lmcstudies/CO/CO2brochure.pdf): «Schools with well - developed library media programs average 10 - 15 % / 18 % higher reading
scores.»