Sentences with phrase «impact than the math»

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Moskovitz thinks we can, provided we start looking at the real costs of our work — that is, the long - term impact on employees and their ability to contribute meaningfully — rather than just doing the math on short - term metrics like revenue per man - hour, etc..

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

Maths Pathway has documented high results in its 2016 Impact Report, which found that Year 7 students grew an average of 218 per cent faster than they were before they started using the program.

According to the study, Impacts of a Prekindergarten Program on Children's Mathematics, Language, Literacy, Executive Function, and Emotional Skills, more than 2,000 children enrolled in the BPS program have shown improvements in children's language, literacy, math, executive function (the ability to regulate, control, and manage one's thinking and actions), and emotional development skills citywide.

Maths Pathway has documented incredible results in its 2016 Impact Report, which found that Year 7 students grew an average of 218 per cent faster than they were before they started using the program.

According to the study, Impacts of a Prekindergarten Program on Children's Mathematics, Language, Literacy, Executive Function, and Emotional Skills, more than 2,000 children enrolled in the BPS program have shown improvements in children's language, literacy, math, executive function -LRB-...

The impact on student math and reading achievement differed by about 20 percent of a standard deviation, a difference which the authors note is «striking, roughly equivalent to having a teacher who is at the 16th percentile of effectiveness rather than at the 50th percentile.»

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.

So the second assumption must be that «poverty» has a bigger impact on math performance for fifteen - year - olds than for younger students.

By way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total effect on student achievement as measured by student - test - based measures of teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in math.

Although the evaluation found no impact on student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant gain of more than 5 scale points.

«When Money Matters,» a report of a national study released in 1997 by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), determined that spending money on smaller classes has a greater impact on math achievement than spending on administration, school buildings, or hiring teachers with advanced degrees.

With one exception (immigrants benefited less than native - born students from a performance pay regime), I found only small differences in the impact of performance pay on the math achievement of subgroups in the population.

Hansen reports comparable impacts from additional days with more than four inches of snow on 8th - grade students» performance on math tests in Colorado.

These supplemental math programs (e.g., Jostens, PLATO, Larson Pre-Algebra, and SRA Drill and Practice) were equally effective across elementary and secondary levels, and using them for more than 30 minutes per week increased the beneficial impacts on math achievement.

Although the project hasn't impacted directly on curriculum provision, there is anecdotal evidence that it has impacted on the pedagogy of the english and maths teachers who have had the chance to observe PE lessons more than they would have previously had.

However, these changes took more than a year to materialize, and only the math impacts were sustained four years after youth enrolled in the program.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Boston, pre-kindergarten programs demonstrate impressive outcomes that include positive effects on math scores, grade retention, and chronic absenteeism at the end of grade 8; increased achievement on language arts, literacy, math, and science, as well as decreased grade retention and special education placement at the end of grade 5; and stronger than typical impacts on academic readiness (effect sizes in the 0.4 — 0.6 range) at school entry.

Thus, grade 6 — 8 pilot schools appear to be weaker than K — 8 schools, at least as measured by their impact on math scores.

[5] For example, studies in North Carolina and New York City found that math teachers had approximately a 35 percent greater impact on test scores in their field than did English teachers.

A recent study of the Texas program, which enrolls more than 224,000 children, looked at the effects of the program by third grade and concluded that it had a «substantially meaningful» impact, and that children who attended saw increased scores in math and reading and decreases in grade retention and special education services.

This article examined the relationship between working memory and math anxiety and showed, perhaps counterintuitively, that math anxiety impacts students with high working memory more than it does those with relatively lower working memory capacity.

She also found that math anxiety has an impact on those with high, rather than low amounts of working memory — the very students who have the potential to take mathematics to higher levels.

Combining a range of evidence - based practices and tools, the Maths Pathway Learning and Teaching model is helping teachers have greater impact than ever before.

This study looked at Ohio's EdChoice program and found that participation in the program had an «unambiguously negative» impact on «both reading and math (though more negative for mathematics than for reading).»

We then assess the impact of these placements on student achievement in the classrooms in which student teaching occurs, and find that a teacher's students perform only slightly worse in math and not significantly better or worse in English Language Arts, all else equal, in years in which the teacher hosts a student teacher than in other years.

The impact of attending a participating D.C. voucher school on math achievement is a larger decrease than all other factors that the authors reviewed.

The research also failed to find a «significant positive impact» on social mobility, and in fact found that the gap between the proportion of children on free school meals attaining five A * to C GCSEs including English and maths and all other children was actually wider in selective areas (34.1 per cent) than in non-selective areas (27.8 per cent).

It «s inconcievable that anyone with anything more than pre-school maths knowledge does nt comprehend the impact of this on the whole set of data

But the math (according to many more qualified folk than I) doesn't support that; though waste heat can be detectable in some UHI measurements, the effect is too small to have a real impact on any but local scales.

And, as a recent New York Times article pointed out, studies have shown that teachers have bigger impacts on math test scores than English test scores.

A recent study of the Texas program, which enrolls more than 224,000 children, looked at the effects of the program by third grade and concluded that it had a «substantially meaningful» impact, and that children who attended saw increased scores in math and reading and decreases in grade retention and special education services.

In 50 years of evaluation, PCHP has documented important longitudinal impacts for program participants: graduates enter school as well or better prepared than their classmates, perform significantly better than their socioeconomic peers and as well as or better than the overall population on school readiness measures in kindergarten and first grade, and are reading and doing math on grade level in third grade.

An evaluation of the long - term impact of the Chicago Child - Parent Centers, for example, showed that children attending the program for a full day scored better on measures of social - emotional development, math and reading skills, and physical health than similar children attending the program part day.Arthur Reynolds et al. «Association of a Full - Day vs. Part - Day Preschool Intervention with School Readiness, Attendance, and Parent Involvement,» JAMA 312, no. 20 (2014): 2126 — 2134.