There may be a bunch of schools that don't really
impact test scores but are doing something that helps with long - term outcomes.
How would
it impact test scores, memory and retention, and more importantly behavior and a childs attitudes towards education, each other, and the world?
Not exact matches
We'd then prioritize ideas based on
impact (Warren Buffett Framework / ICE
Scores) and begin
testing.
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.
46 % had at least one
score on the
ImPACT computerized neurocognitive
test which decreased by a statistically significant amount from their baseline;
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 neurocognitive
impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite
score from baseline on the
ImPACT neurocognitive
ImPACT neurocognitive
test.
The 2 - year study included three elements; computerized neurocognitive
testing using the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive
Test (
ImPACT), balance
testing utilizing the Balance Error
Scoring System (BESS), and a Post-Concussions Symptom Scale (PCSS).
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.
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.
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.
But follow - up
tests showed that the supplements had marginal
impact and that mental development
scores deteriorated in both intervention and control groups.
The
test scores confirm a devastating
impact: After mothers left home to work in another city, mental development
scores among their children declined significantly and socio - emotional indices «fell apart,» Rozelle says.
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).
In human children, alterations in anxiety levels could
impact learning in school or
test scores, although existing evidence is not so fine - grained.
The New York Times reported that the study is the largest to address the controversial «value - added ratings,» which measure the
impact individual teachers have on student
test scores.
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 s
Impact of Mobile Phones on Student Performance, investigated the
impact of banning mobile phones on student test s
impact 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.
In other words, programs can yield long - term benefits without raising
test scores, and
test -
score gains are no guarantee that
impacts will persist over time.
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.
We found no evidence, however, that the teachers to whom students in the G&T program were assigned were any more effective, as measured by their
impact 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.»