Sentences with phrase «impact of the test scores»

Democratic lawmakers, who are closely aligned with teachers» unions but have mixed opinions on whether to support the movement, argued nevertheless that this year's testing boycott would send a specific message to the State Board of Regents: Minimize the impact of test scores in teacher evaluations.

She says her department has issued guidance to schools reducing the impact of test score data in the state's teacher evaluation model, called RISE.

For many general education teachers, the impact of the test scores of students with disabilities on their value - added scores is relatively limited.

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And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

Using longitudinally linked, student - level data collected from two urban school districts, New York City and Washington, DC, Mathematica estimated the impacts of five EL middle schools on students» reading and math test scores.

And, when research uses standardized tests to measure homework's impact, she continued, it is difficult to gauge how much of the overall improvement or decline in test scores is due to student learning in the classroom context as opposed to student learning from homework.

The study found that the players had poorer post-season reaction time and scores on a test of visual attention and task switching, which deficits were associated with greater head impact exposures.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitiveimpact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitiveImPACT neurocognitive test.

Since 2008, Democrats have administered randomized - control experiments to test the impact of GOTV contact on voters with different score combinations, with the goal of quantifying where those contacts are most likely to produce a net vote.

The draft also includes a space for the task force to weigh in on the impact of student test scores on teacher evaluations, and the panel will likely use that space to recommend up to a four - year moratorium, according to a source familiar with the task force's plans.

She said she wanted to see teacher evaluations permanently unlinked from test scores, because she was skeptical of the methodology used to calculate a teacher's impact on a student's scores.

The agreement allows the new evaluation system to proceed, but delays the impact of state test scores until teachers have gained experience with Common Core standards and tests.

«It is increasingly important to look at long - run outcomes of educational policies, including impacts on educational attainment and labor market outcomes, rather than just focus on test scores.

As expected, the simple traffic light labeling of calorie content had a particularly strong impact among the subset of participants who scored poorly on a simple test of math ability (numeracy).

A second study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Gary Chamberlain, using the same data as Chetty and his colleagues, provides fodder both for skeptics and supporters of the use of value - added: while confirming Chetty's finding that the teachers who have impacts on contemporaneous measures of student learning also have impacts on earnings and college going, Chamberlain also found that test - scores are a very imperfect proxy for those impacts.

My colleague Katharine Lindquist and I used statewide data from North Carolina to simulate the impact of opt - out on test - score - based measures of teacher performance.

The estimated gain from being offered a voucher is only half as large as the gain from switching to private school (in response to being offered a voucher), so the estimated impact of offering vouchers is no more than one - eighth as large as the black - white test score gap.

The study's chief author Daniel Koretz and his colleagues used a simplified model of the University of California admissions process and real test scores to examine the impact of attempts to roll back affirmative action in postsecondary admissions on eight California campuses.

Today, across Wolverhampton, eBooks are offered as a core part of the e-learning development package with an impact on test scores showing learners moving from level 4 to level 5.

The exciting aspect of this is that it has the potential to increase the reading levels of our neediest students, and could have an impact on our test scores as well,» he told Education World.

Author Bio: Deming's work is broadly in the economics of education, with a focus on the impact of policies and interventions on outcomes other than test scores.

The research paper, titled Ill Communication: The Impact of Mobile Phones on Student Performance, investigated the impact of banning mobile phones on student test sImpact of Mobile Phones on Student Performance, investigated the impact of banning mobile phones on student test simpact of banning mobile phones on student test scores.

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.

Such «selection effects» could in theory account for the apparent school impacts on test scores, or even the apparent absence of impacts on fluid cognitive skills.

Studies of early - childhood and school - age interventions often find long - term impacts on such outcomes as educational attainment, earnings, and criminal activity despite nonexistence or «fade - out» of test - score gains.

This issue's research section offers a first - of - its - kind study examining the impact of instructor quality on student achievement in the higher education sector — finding that students taught by above - average instructors receive higher grades and test scores, are more likely to succeed in subsequent courses, and earn more college credits.

• Each year of attendance at an oversubscribed charter school increased the math test scores of students in the sample by 13 percent of a standard deviation, a roughly 50 percent increase over the progress typical students make in a school year, but had no impact on their fluid cognitive skills.

A study by Joshua Goodman that was published in Education Next found that the number of snow days in a given year do not have an impact on student test scores.

The study examines the impact of winning a school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups of students with different propensities to commit crimes, using an index of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

This effect is similar in size to those found in evaluations of primary - school inputs» impacts on postsecondary outcomes, such as being assigned to a teacher who is particularly effective in raising student test scores.

We are looking at the impact of raising high school students» test scores on their attainment and earnings, later in life.

These days, he's jumping into a new research project based in Texas and Massachusetts that looks at the impact of high - stakes testing on outcomes other than the actual test scores.

In an article for The 74, the new reform - oriented education news website launched by Campbell Brown, Matt Barnum looks at the impact of the Obama administration's decision, in 2009, to push states applying for Race to the Top funds to evaluate all teachers based in part on student test scores.

Figure 1 presents results for students with baseline test - score information - the first bar reporting impacts for the definition of African - American originally used, the latter three bars for alternative definitions.

In response to the criticism that teacher impacts on student test scores are inconsistent over time, the authors show that «although VA measures fluctuate across years, they are sufficiently stable» that selecting teachers even based on a few years of data would have substantial impacts on student outcomes, such as earnings.

We can therefore estimate the impact of NCLB's accountability mandates by comparing test - score changes in states that did not have NCLB - style accountability policies in place when the law was implemented to test - score changes in those that did.

Differences across schools in treatment intensity enable us to measure the impact of ERI - induced retirements on test scores.

In The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Brookings, 2002), we and our colleagues reported that attending a private school had no discernible impact, positive or negative, on the test scores of non-African-American students participating in school voucher programs in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Dayton, Ohio.

Positive impacts on long - term attainment outcomes and earnings are, of course, more consequential than outcomes on test scores in school.

More recently, Princeton economist Cecilia Rouse, after reviewing the research literature, concluded that «the overall impact of private schools is mixed, [but] it does appear that Catholic schools generate higher test scores for African - Americans.»

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

While researchers often shy away from using rankings in serious statistical analyses of test scores, they can have a substantial impact on political rhetoric, and consequently, education policy.

Baltimore is the only one of the five cities in which Sanbonmatsu and her colleagues found positive impacts on reading and math test scores.

Deming's research focuses on the economics of education, particularly the impact of education policies on long - term outcomes as opposed to test scores.

After almost five years, the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act already has made a significant impact on U.S. schools, based on improved test scores and a narrowing of the achievement gap, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

Last week, I argued that Hitt, McShane, and Wolf erred in including programs in their review of «school choice» studies that were only incidentally related to school choice or that have idiosyncratic designs that would lead one to expect a mismatch between test score gains and long - term impacts (early college high schools, selective enrollment high schools, and career and technical education initiatives).

Most research on the impact of school vouchers looks at short - term outcomes like test scores.

It found that «attending an exam school increases the rigor of high school courses taken and the probability that a student graduates with an advanced high school degree» but «has little impact on Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, college enrollment, or college graduation.»

The researchers assessed teacher quality by looking at value - added measures of teacher impact on student test scores between the 2000 — 01 and 2008 — 09 school years.