Sentences with phrase «impact on achievement»

Their most important finding is that school closure has significant positive impacts on the achievement of displaced students.

Reality: There's some evidence indicating that integrated schools have a positive impact on the achievement of minority students, especially blacks.

However, two recent studies that looked at the impact of disruptive students in individual classrooms found that those students did have a negative impact on the achievement of other students in the class.

The report also found that homework had a very limited impact on achievement for primary pupils, with some evidence suggesting it actually had a negative impact on progress.

If a program showed large and significant impacts on achievement, especially for low - income kids, but poor results on long - term outcomes, it would certainly raise alarms.

Here, the passive voice instantly draws the reader's attention to the impressive accomplishment of earning «the top prize» which puts a bigger impact on the achievement.

These analyses suggest that family economic conditions in early childhood have the greatest impact on achievement, especially among children in families with low incomes.

They found that homework had a very limited impact on achievement for primary - age children — and some evidence had suggested it actually had a negative impact on their progress.

What mistakes are we making that lead to poor choices and what can we do to ensure it doesn't negatively impact on the achievement of our goals?

Large - scale initiatives like «accountability» and «parental choice» set the context for improvement, but they have rather indirect impacts on achievement.

The reader's attention is instantly drawn to the impressive accomplishment of being «awarded top prize» which puts a bigger grammatical impact on the achievement.

For example, the days in the school year showed relatively little variation, and, as such, variation in the length of school years could not explain much of the existing achievement variation, even if adding days to the school year would have a strong impact on achievement.

That lower bound of the estimated effect is what we will use as we calculate the economic worth of a teacher by combining a teacher's impact on achievement with the associated labor market returns.

This suggests that strategies to boost disadvantaged pupils» reading comprehension could have a positive impact on their achievement in science too.

While past studies have suggested that snow day school closings reduce student learning, new research from Joshua Goodman at the Harvard Kennedy School shows that closings due to snow days have little impact on achievement.

In effect, he devotes this book to affirming James Coleman's 1966 finding that school differences have far less impact on achievement differences than do family characteristics, the mightiest of which, Rothstein says, is socioeconomic status.

«Little is known about whether (professional development) can have a positive impact on achievement when a program is delivered across a range of typical settings and when its delivery depends on multiple trainers,» conclude Wayne and co. «Despite a consensus in the literature on the features of effective (professional development), there is limited evidence on the specific features that make a difference for achievement.»

It has been in place since the early nineties but with minimal impact on achievement outcomes.

Looking at achievement trends across these different assessments raises questions about the effectiveness of our current approach to school reform in the U.S.. By 2008 and certainly by 2012, we should have seen evidence of a positive impact on achievement from the test - driven reforms of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB).

For students, the authors argue, the ability to assess their own learning — that is, to actively understand their own progress and trajectory — can have a significant impact on achievement levels.

If a small increase in funds statewide would have a dramatic impact on achievement, as supporters of Initiative 42 claim, wouldn't we expect to see a correlation between districts that currently receive more money and achievement?

Despite all the research that shows that out of school factors greatly outweigh in school factors impact on achievement, the «reformers» cling to the myth that if we could just get rid of all the ineffective teachers, the achievement gap would slam shut.

The brain is developing, determining the cognitive abilities and social - emotional skills that have an outsized impact on achievement.

«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.»

Conversely, low interest by fathers in their children's education (particularly boys) has a stronger negative impact on their achievement than contact with the police, poverty, family type, social class, housing tenure and child's personality [2].

The findings indicate that those who evaluate early childhood education programs solely on their ability to raise IQ miss the real driver of success: character skills that have far greater impact on achievement and life outcomes.

One year not enough to gauge impact on achievement Some audience members at Wednesday's briefing questioned the need for the innovation law if schools weren't using it to make more dramatic changes, particularly in curriculum and instruction.

``... to conclude that such minimum fees are excluded from scale agreements would result in the SAA having a limited impact on the achievement of Parliament's express recognition that artists should be compensated for the use of their works, including the public lending of those works,» the ruling states.

Another brief claims that «school desegregation has a modest positive impact on the achievement of African - American students.»

In her research regarding student motivation, she has studied the origins of mindsets, their role in motivation and self - regulation, and their impact on achievement and interpersonal processes.

In an article in The Conversation, Dr Rice highlighted research by Rumberger and Palardy, (2005) that found individual student background and diversity of students had an impact on achievement.

The reality is that the evidence on learning styles as an effective teaching and learning approach is limited — this means that there is at least one meta - analysis with quantitative evidence of impact on achievement or cognitive or curriculum outcome measures (Evidence for Learning, 2017b).

«Timing is important,» say Wayne and co, «because moving from providing (professional development) to obtaining an impact on achievement involves traversing a number of causal links, and each of these may take time to unfold.»

Isolating technology's impact on achievement can be challenging, however.

She even denies that either BBA or Ladd ever meant to say that income had much of an impact on achievement.

Marcotte and Steven Hemelt (2008) collected data on school closures from all but one school district in Maryland to estimate the impact on achievement.

First, the school choice programs show overwhelmingly positive impacts on both achievement and attainment; it's more of a mixed bag for the non-school choice programs, which tend to do worse on achievement but well on attainment.

Classroom management is a major element of the teaching and learning process, making an impact on achievement and pupil motivation, not to mention the quality of a teacher's working life.

Of these, only the Texas charter schools had statistically significantly negative impacts on achievement (ELA and math) and significantly positive impacts on attainment (high school graduation).

For students continuing to KIPP high schools from KIPP middle schools, impacts on achievement are not statistically significant.

But a master's degree has almost no impact on achievement.

Research shows that higher - quality materials have just as large an impact on achievement as higher - quality teachers.

But L.A.'s last evaluation found that «neither the amount of usage nor the level of engagement had an impact on achievement.»

Past studies have shown a small or no impact on achievement, although there is some suggestion of higher graduation rates.

Here at Kickboard, we have seen the impact on the achievement of students when schools effectively use technology as a tool for improving school culture.