Coleman's reasoning would have implied that verbal skills and reading would be more susceptible to school - based
interventions than math would.
Not exact matches
English language learners who participated in the
intervention also scored significantly higher in
math than their peers in the control group.
In a new longitudinal study, first - generation immigrant children who took part in a community - based
intervention had higher scores on
math and reading tests
than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the program.
The third
intervention was reported to have boosted
math achievement by less
than half the amount of the reading gain from the D.C. voucher program.
At schools under for - profit management, students learned on average 25 percent of a standard deviation more in
math each year of the six years of the
intervention than they would have had the school been under district management.
Obama's action consisted of allowing states to ignore some of NCLB's more incoherent mandates — the most important being the provision that required states, starting in 2014, to initiate federally mandated
interventions at any school where less
than 100 % of students were proficient in reading and
math.
Interventions have had stronger effects on
math achievement
than on reading comprehension.
At River View — and a similar school that serves K — 6 grades called Summer Heights — more students are now achieving at grade level in
math and at a proficient or advanced level in reading
than was the case before these schools rolled out a schoolwide
intervention.
Over a 30 - year period, researchers followed two groups of children — one enrolled at the center; the other from randomly selected early childhood
intervention programs — and found that those who took part in the center's field trips and focused reading and
math instruction were more likely to get a college degree
than their peers who did not.
The study authors reported that students in the
intervention group had higher
math scores
than students in the comparison group, but only for students of parents with high
math anxiety.
This
intervention cut the community - college
math dropout rate by more
than half.
On the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) in
math, the performance of male students exposed to the
intervention was much higher
than that of males not exposed to the
intervention; for females, the difference was even larger.
DeKalb Central School District administrators identified that a percentage of their students required
math intervention when results on the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress Plus (ISTEP +) showed less
than ideal performance in mathematics.
In primary schools, the threshold for
intervention is if fewer
than 65 % of pupils get Level 4 in reading, writing and
maths and a below average number of pupils make the expected amount of progress.
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.