Of all the variables, classroom management had
the largest effect on student achievement.
When educators had the chance to practice their new content knowledge and teaching skills with hands - on work, they reported a greater sense of efficacy, which, as we know from the Visible Learning research by John Hattie, has
the largest effect on student achievement.
Second, the new wave of personalized learning draws on a set of instructional strategies that have shown particularly
large effects on student achievement: feedback, peer tutoring, mastery learning, goal setting, and even direct instruction.
Much evidence suggests that school decisions about curricula (e.g., textbooks, instructional software, and the corresponding pedagogy) can have comparatively
large effects on student achievement.
Not exact matches
«We use exogenous variation from an ERI program in Illinois in the mid-1990s to provide the first evidence in the literature of the
effects of
large - scale teacher retirements
on student achievement.
Of the three alternative certification pathways studied, teachers who enter through the path requiring no coursework in education have the greatest
effect on student achievement, substantially
larger than that of traditionally prepared teachers.
The most extreme claim in the essay, among many, is that «the
effect of vouchers
on student achievement is
larger than the following in - school factors: exposure to violent crime at school...» Yep, you read that correctly: selecting a private school for your child is as damaging to them as witnessing school violence.
In related work conducted in Massachusetts, Harvard economist Josh Goodman finds no
effects of school closures
on student achievement but
large negative
effects of weather - induced absences
on moderately snowy days when schools remained open.
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.
A RCT of charter schools in New York City by a Stanford researcher found an even
larger effect: «
On average, a
student who attended a charter school for all of grades kindergarten through eight would close about 86 percent of the «Scarsdale - Harlem
achievement gap» in math and 66 percent of the
achievement gap in English.»
Even when attrition and replacement throughout the middle school years are taken into account, the limited range of potential peer
effects at KIPP schools does not explain the
large cumulative impacts
on student achievement identified by prior studies.
Perhaps the
largest long - term impact of the Coleman Report has been its
effect on elite opinion about the contribution schools make to
student achievement.
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.
A
large body of empirical evidence
on the
effects of resources
on student achievement already exists.
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.
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.
That study, while reporting negative
achievement effects for participants in Ohio's
largest voucher program, also found that
students remaining in public schools performed higher
on tests, owing to program - induced competition.
These lotteries provide the basis for an unusually
large and rigorous study, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, of the
effects of SSCs
on students» academic
achievement.
As well, CT showed
larger effects on the mathematics
achievement of special need
students than that of general education
students, the positive
effect of CT was greater when combined with a constructivist approach to teaching than with a traditional approach to teaching, and studies that used non-standardized tests as measures of mathematics
achievement reported
larger effects of CT than studies that used standardized tests.
We found that attrition and replacement patterns could not explain most of KIPP's positive
effects on student achievement, because (a) early attrition patterns at KIPP schools are similar to those at nearby district middle schools; and (b) KIPP schools have
large achievement effects in the first year of
students» enrollment, before replacement patterns could have any
effects.
Further, he notes, «the
effects of private - school - choice programs
on educational attainment — how far an individual goes in school — are both
larger and more consistent than their
achievement effects,» with programs narrowly targeted to low - income, urban
students proving to be the most effective.
These data also reveal the significant challenges faced by schools in retaining teachers who have
large positive
effects on student achievement.
This study uses the
large change in expected college tuition costs caused by the surprise announcement of the Kalamazoo Promise's tuition subsidies to measure the Promise's short - term
effects on student achievement and behavior.
Yet our estimates suggest that the
effect of middle - school entry
on student achievement is
larger for
students entering in grade 7 than for
students entering in grade 6.
I have written about voucher results from Louisiana extensively before, especially the
large negative
effects that the state's program, and a similar program in Ohio, have had
on the
achievement of
students using them to move to private schools.
The study's authors speculate
on four potential explanations for the
large negative
effects that their program evaluation found: misalignment of private school curriculum to the Louisiana State Standards; differences between serving scholarship
students with
achievement gaps and traditional private school
students; success of other education developments, especially in New Orleans; and the overall quality of private schools willing to participate in the program.
Researchers examined the
effects of Readers Theater (performance reading)
on the reading
achievement and motivation of struggling eight grade
students in a low socioeconomic neighborhood in a
large metropolitan area in south Texas.
Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic
achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic
achievement by 0.175 standard deviations
on average, with
effects for disadvantaged
students roughly twice as
large as advantaged
students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.
When schools are as bad as they are in the inner - city neighborhoods of Detroit, Washington, and a few other
large cities, they certainly have a depressing
effect on student achievement.
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.»
Small differences in the estimated
effects of teachers
on their
students»
achievement can appear to be much
larger, because most teachers are about equally successful with the assortment of
students they teach in a given year, regardless of whether those
students begin the year as low - achievers or high - achievers.
They conclude that a teacher's experience, test scores and regular licensure all have positive
effects on student achievement, with
larger effects for math than for reading.
Taken together the various teacher credentials exhibit quite
large effects on math
achievement, whether compared to the
effects of changes in class size or to the socio - economics characteristics of
students.
His Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which went into
effect five years ago, provides more money to school districts with
large numbers of poor and / or «English learner»
students on the assumption that it will close the much - lamented «
achievement gap» in learning.
That analysis also finds that the
effect of vouchers
on student achievement is
larger than the following in - school factors: exposure to violent crime at school, feeling unsafe in school, high teacher turnover, and teacher absenteeism.4
Dr. Good is also quick to acknowledge that, despite the reiterated notion that teachers matter and thus should possess (and continue to be trained in) effective teaching qualities (e.g., be well versed in their content knowledge, have strong classroom management skills, hold appropriate expectations, etc.), «fad - driven» education reform policies (e.g., teacher evaluation polices that are based in
large part
on student achievement growth or teachers» «value - added») have gone too far and have actually overvalued the
effects of teachers.
What
large - scale, survey research tells us about teacher
effects on student achievement: Insights from the prospects study of elementary schools.
The report shows that the charter network has positive
effects on students» academic success in math and reading, and that elementary and middle schools in particular show
large gains in
achievement.