Sentences with phrase «large positive effects on»

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

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.»

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.»

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.

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).

• 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.»

Not exact matches

School - based programs that encouraged more physical activity also had no effect on BMI, one large review concluded, though other positive results — like lower blood cholesterol and less time spent watching TV — were observed.

A large and growing body of research indicates that the right mix of praise (read: more praise, less criticism) has a demonstrable positive effect on the performance of the individual and the team.

Steadfast, which is the country's largest broker network, has spent $ 40 million over 12 years on technology that it hopes will continue to attract brokers to the company, having a flow - on positive effect on revenue.

As the research team put it, «We find that human happiness has large and positive causal effects on productivity.

He also discussed the large - scale asset purchases of the Fed's quantitative easing program, casting doubt on much of the literature of the day — which tended to find positive, but limited effects of such purchases on reducing bond yields.

The next stage was to accept that in many entities we have to consider a large number of interacting components, and processes of cause - effect which are not simply linear, but may interest either by being linked into networks, or by various types of feed - back interaction, positive or negative and so on.

A new study from the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) reveals that the large majority of parents believe technology has a positive effect on their child's future, career and life skills (78 %) and creativity (64 %).

Washington, D.C. — A new study from the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) reveals that the large majority of parents believe technology has a positive effect on their child's future, career and life skills (78 %) and creativity (64 %).

It has also played a large role in this part of London in getting people to shop local and also has a positive knock - on effect on surrounding businesses.

«We'd like to replicate the program on a larger scale and are working on ways to extend the positive effect of the intervention.

A 4 - year study by professor Leslie Perlow and research associate Jessica Porter, both of the Harvard Business School, published in the October issue of Harvard Business Review, demonstrates that time off can have a larger, positive effect on individual and organizational productivity than more hours on the job.

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.

That is why a large number of meta - analyses showed a positive effect of sport and physical activity on depression.

«Although the current studies demonstrated that telling women that men prefer women with body sizes larger than the thin - ideal can have immediate positive effects on women's body image, it is unclear how long these effects may last,» Meltzer said.

And, whereas the drug reduced overall levels of positive emotion, it had a larger effect on positive emotions related to feeling connected and loved.

Anyone who accepts that sunlight falling on ice free waters which has less reflectivity than sunlight falling on a large ice mass covering those waters and also accepts that this reduction in albedo has a positive feedback effect, leading to further warming, can't help but opt for A or B, it seems to me.

Two findings of particular interest are: 1) our data suggest that academic research positions remain the predominant career choice of postdocs in the United States, although unequally between postdocs of different gender and residency status; and 2) receiving mentorship training during the postdoctoral period has a large, positive effect on postdoc mentorship satisfaction.

Furthermore, for saturated fat to have positive effects on your health, you need to eat it along with other foods instead of pouring unnaturally large amounts of it into your coffee.

Foods that naturally improve circulation, increase visual and sensual impact as well as stimulate the brain (the brain is the largest sexual organ in the body although I'm sure some men would disagree haha) will have a positive effect on your mojo.

It's hard not to be affected by the entire buzz about the amazing maca root benefits starting from nutrition benefits and ending with large number of health conditions that maca might have positive effects on.

«The positive ecological correlations between national intakes of total fat and saturated fatty acids and cardiovascular mortality found in earlier studies were absent or negative in the larger, more recent studies,» the authors wrote, concluding that «the harmful effect of dietary saturated fatty acids and the protective effect of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids on atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease are questioned.»

Last week we talked about breaking your large goals into smaller goals and its (positive) effect on success rates.

In sum, in the largest lottery - based evaluation of charter schools to date, we find that charter schools in New York City are having positive effects on the academic progress of the students who attend them.

... But by and large the newly decentralized, choice - driven system has had small positive effects on the academic performance of most Swedish students.»

Nor are results much better for attending college: «While the estimated effect of charter attendance on college attendance is positive, it is not large enough to generate a statistically significant finding.»

The large, positive effect that a prevalence of girls has on boys» math scores can not plausibly be explained solely by girls» effect on average peer achievement in math.

One of our studies was a randomized trial in a large urban district that found significant positive effects on reading achievement for students who used Accelerated Reader according to the publisher's recommendations.

Findings from 94 independent tests showed that implementation intentions had a positive effect of medium - to - large magnitude (d =.65) on goal attainment.

A large body of research confirms that family involvement in children's school experiences has a positive effect on children's attitudes toward school achievement, regardless of how much money parents have or how many years of school they completed.

Vouchers have a moderately large, positive effect on the achievement of African - American students, but no discernible effect on the performance of students of other ethnicities.

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.

Our results indicate that while the pilot evaluation system led to large short - term, positive effects on school reading performance, these effects were concentrated in schools that, on average, served higher - achieving and less - disadvantaged students.

We find that vouchers have a moderately large, positive effect on the achievement of African - American students, but no discernible effect on the performance of students of other ethnicities.

As federal officials search for ways to upgrade the quality of math and science instruction, a study concludes that a large - scale venture to spread professional - development throughout entire districts had a positive effect on teaching those subjects.

As is his wont, he ignores the results from a randomized field trial, conducted by Johns Hopkins researchers, that found that Success for All has large, statistically significant positive effects on student literacy.