Sentences with phrase «larger educational gains»

Those with fewer computers were seeing larger educational gains, as measured by PISA test score changes between 2009 and 2012.

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The general pattern among them is that programs producing large gains in achievement test outcomes are producing little or no increase in educational attainment.

That brings us to an indispensable tenet of educational romanticism: The public schools are so bad that large gains in student performance are possible even within the constraints of intellectual ability.

Students who have the most effective teachers make gains three times as large as those with less effective teachers, according to experts such as Stanford University's Eric Hanushek, whose specialty is economic analysis of educational issues.

A significant body of research has concluded that student - learning gains garnered by classroom formative assessment practices were among the largest ever reported for educational interventions (e.g., Black and Wiliam, 1998).

Results of individual studies have suggested that some children who enter into intensive autism - specialized intervention services at young ages may show larger gains in terms of cognitive and adaptive functioning and early educational attainment than children who do not receive such services.2, — , 6 This research led to a reconceptualization of ASDs as a group of disorders marked by plasticity and heterogeneity and for which there was hope for better outcomes for some children who receive appropriate intervention.