Sentences with phrase «large positive effects»

These data also reveal the significant challenges faced by schools in retaining teachers who have large positive effects on student achievement.

In 8th - grade math, we find extremely large positive effects for Hispanic students and small, only marginally significant effects for white students.

Once again, the results showed even larger positive effects than those obtained for the full sample.

It found patients with baseline disability scores of 17 or greater, on a scale of 24, experienced large positive effects and those with initial scores of 7 or greater experienced medium effects.

These studies demonstrated very large positive effects from even a short group treatment of thirty sessions.

They found that retention in third grade had large positive effects on reading and math achievement in the short run.

At the same time, these evaluations also detected large positive effects of the programs on high school graduation.

The impact of public charter schools on their own students» academic performance is by now well - documented, showing wide variability overall but also clear evidence of large positive effects in many urban centers, including New York City.

The combination of evidence - based curricula and in - classroom coaching is particularly promising and has been implemented at scale with large positive effects on children.»

For example, a 2013 Mathematica evaluation of KIPP middle schools finds large positive effects on student test scores and time spent on homework, but no effects on student - reported measures of self - control and persistence in school.

The KIPP results show large positive effects much like those reported here for Boston charter middle schools.

Due to the relatively small sample sizes, all of the effects are imprecisely estimated and do not allow us to definitively rule out reasonably large positive effects.

In Florida, where we can link students to workforce data in adulthood, we also find evidence that charter high schools produce large positive effects on subsequent earnings.

Whether using the randomized lotteries or statistical controls for measured background characteristics, we generally find large positive effects for Charter Schools, at both the middle school and high school levels...

Furthermore, larger positive effects of home visiting programs are usually found when nurses and / or other professionals deliver services to families instead of paraprofessionals.

However, that same study finds larger positive effects for the most traditionally disadvantaged groups — English learners, students in poverty, and Black and Hispanic students.

Whatever the focus, however, middle - class students showed larger positive effects than did low - income students (Cooper, Charlton, Valentine, & Muhlenbruck, 2000).

Along with colleagues Guido Schwerdt and Marcus Winters, West used administrative data to study the causal effect of third grade retention under Florida's test - based promotion policy on student outcomes through high school.They found that retention in third grade had large positive effects on reading and math achievement in the short run.

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

Given that money per se will not necessarily improve student outcomes (for example, using the funds to pay for lavish faculty retreats or to shore up employee pension funds will likely not have a large positive effect on student outcomes), understanding how the increased funding was spent is key to understanding why we find large spending effects where others do not.

Some recent studies of the impact of school choice have found only a limited impact on academic achievement but larger positive effects on long - term outcomes like attainment and earnings.

None of the groupings of private schools examined had a negative estimated impact relative to public schools — some just had a larger positive effect than others.

In New Orleans, regulation and accountability seem to have contributed to large positive effects on achievement.

To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).

And to turn back to school choice for a moment, Imberman finds that charters in an unnamed urban district had no effect on student tests scores — but had large positive effects on discipline and attendance.

Charter schools such as KIPP and the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy have large positive effects on the academic achievement of their (mostly disadvantaged) students.

The original evaluation identified, after three years, large positive effects of the voucher opportunity on the test scores of African Americans but not on the test scores of students from other ethnic groups.

We speculate that district support also played an important role in explaining the large positive effect for Cohort 1 and the null effect for Cohort 2.

Our results show that grouping students by preparedness or prior achievement and focusing the teaching material at the most appropriate level could potentially have large positive effects with little or no additional resource cost.

Our work confirms that increasing instructional time could have large positive effects on learning gains.

Comparing respondents» ratings of schools on either side of this cutoff suggests a large positive effect of receiving the higher (B) grade, with an increase in the grades assigned to schools in the range of of 36 to 57 percent of a letter grade.

«Research has consistently found that attending a charter school in Boston has large positive effects on math and reading test scores,» Cohodes reported.

But ERA's research shows that the RSD's willingness to close schools has actually been beneficial, finding that «roughly one - third of the reforms» large positive effects on measured student achievement can be attributed to this process.»

• Similarly, a simulated three - year bull market (positive equity returns) is projected to have a larger positive effect on projected account balances and replacement rates the closer to retirement it occurs.

Given the substantial discount of INFS to its current asset backing, any shares bought back at these levels have a large positive effect on the underlying asset value.

The largest positive effect on self - esteem came from a five - minute dose, they concluded.

«The implications are that wildfire management may help offset rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, and climate change does not appear to have a large positive effect on carbon storage.»

Furthermore, larger positive effects of home visiting programs are usually found when nurses and / or other professionals deliver services to families instead of paraprofessionals.