Students in treatment schools engaged in physical activity during recess that was, on average, more intense than the physical activity engaged in by control students.
Not only were student learning outcomes significantly
better in treatment schools, but researchers could identify the process by which those results came about.
Moreover, students
in treatment schools spent significantly more time engaged in vigorous physical activity at recess than students in control schools.
Increases in teacher - rated social competence were maintained for all K — 5 students
in treatment schools in times 3 and 4.
MDRC will collect and analyze data from a variety of sources — teacher logs, principal and teacher surveys, and rating sheets completed by the coaches — to examine the implementation of PowerTeaching
i3 in the treatment schools and how math instruction differs between the treatment and control schools.
Data collection will consist of training participation forms and training checklists, site visits (twice a year during the first implementation
year in each treatment school and twice a year during the second implementation year in all study schools), student and school staff surveys and teacher ratings of student behavior, student records data, and monitoring system data (treatment schools only for each implementation year).
Ruby (2006) found that middle school science students
in treatment schools demonstrated significantly greater improvement on district standardized tests than students in the matched control schools.
Balfanz et al. (2006) reported that, in a study of middle school mathematics, students
in treatment schools outperformed students in control schools on district and state benchmarks.
Furthermore, after three years in the project, the achievement gap among the previously determined low, average, and high rated students had narrowed or
disappeared in the treatment schools in contrast with control schools.
In reading, while most specifications find positive and significant learning gains for students taught by team teachers, the specification that performs best in our placebo tests — one that includes school - by - year fixed effects to account for overall
improvement in treatment schools — does not find any impact.
After one year of AMSTI implementation, students
in the treatment schools scored, on average, two percentile points higher on the SAT 10 mathematics problem solving assessment than their control group counterparts, and the difference was statistically significant.
Teachers in treatment schools reported taking significantly less time to transition from recess to learning activities than teachers in control schools,
The project looks at student outcomes in arts learning and academic achievement after three years of the implementation of an arts integration program and compared
students in treatment schools (those receiving the program) with students in control schools (those not receiving the program).
Teachers
in treatment schools were less likely to report difficulties in transitioning to classroom learning activities after recess and reported taking significantly less time to transition from recess to learning activities than teachers in control schools.
According to the RAND study: «Researchers found no differences between the reported teaching practices, effort and attitudes of teachers
in treatment schools and those of the control group.»