Sentences with phrase «little systematic evidence»

Much has been written about the importance of school leadership, but there is surprisingly little systematic evidence on this topic.

The gains at the high school level were «particularly noteworthy, as there is little systematic evidence that any of the many high school reforms attempted to date have had a positive effect on student achievement.»

While there is considerable anecdotal evidence that principals are important — including various movies about the charismatic principal or the bumbling bureaucrat, there has been very little systematic evidence about the magnitude of differences among principals or about their impact on student learning.

Little systematic evidence exists on this question for the charter sector in general, much less for KIPP schools in particular.

Little systematic evidence exists on how the program has evolved as it has expanded, and we won't know the college enrollment outcomes of more recent FTC participants for many years.

Not exact matches

Dalton et al. (1998)(reviewing 31 studies of board leadership structure and finding «little evidence of systematic governance structure / financial performance relationships») and Rhoades et al. (2001)(meta - analysis of 22 independent samples across 5,271 companies indicates that independent leadership structure has a significant impact on performance, but this impact varies with context).

Their anti-metaphysical stance leaves them with «little evidence of any systematic standard of criticism and self - criticism» (NT 5:26).

The New York City Board of Elections» executive director testified to the City Council this morning that there is little evidence to support a Democratic election commisioner's caught - on - camera claims of extensive and systematic voter fraud in minority neighborhoods across the five boroughs.

As a result, there is little evidence that the Danielson framework was used in any systematic way in year three.

In addressing the point of contention, the Productivity Commission is of the opinion that «there is little evidence or systematic processes in place to evaluate policies, program and teaching practices to identify what works best in schools and early learning centres», despite the amount of data that is collected to monitor and report on student and school outcomes.

available evidence reveals little systematic harm or benefit to very young children's later achievement or schooling when their mothers go to work, depending on the age of the child.

The need to incorporate consideration of different structural factors into programme design is gaining support, yet there is still little guidance on systematic evidence - based approaches to employ in practice.