Sentences with phrase «most effect on achievement»

Also in line with current studies is the report's finding that «for any groups whether minority or not, the effect of good teachers is greatest upon the children who suffer most educational disadvantage in their background, and that a given investment in upgrading teacher quality will have most effect on achievement in underprivileged areas.»

Not exact matches

Although there were some small - scale random - assignment experiments of the effects of desegregation on test scores, most of what we know today concerns the relationship between a school outcome such as achievement on the one hand, and racial composition on the other.

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.

Arguably, the most important development in K — 12 education over the past decade has been the emergence of a growing number of urban schools that have been convincingly shown to have dramatic positive effects on the achievement of disadvantaged students.

By far the largest and most comprehensive study on this topic ever conducted, «THE ARTS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS,» confirms claims that listening to music temporarily enhances spatial skills (the controversial «Mozart Effect»), as well as claims that children who study music gain skill in spatial reasoning.

To the extent that NCLB - like accountability had either positive or negative effects on measured student achievement, we would expect, once NCLB had been implemented, to observe those effects most distinctly in states that had not previously introduced similar policies.

Perhaps the most valuable byproduct of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has been the resurgence of research on the effects of teachers on student achievement, which has informed the redesign of teacher evaluation systems.

The study considered by most experts to be the landmark experimental study on the effects of class size is known as the STAR (Student / Teacher Achievement Ratio) project.

In a separate e-mail, one of the authors confirmed this finding: «Teacher ability (which was generally measured as teacher's verbal ability),» Hedges wrote, «seems to show the strongest and most replicable effect on achievement.»

Yet, after reviewing 60 studies, Greenwald, Hedges, and Laine's firmest and most significant conclusion was that verbal ability had by far the most significant effect on student achievement.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

Even so, our analysis provides the most complete picture to date of the early effects on student achievement of a voucher program operating at scale.

Although, as the authors note, «most non-urban students do reasonably well in any case,» the causal effect of a year of non-urban charter attendance is a substantial reduction in achievement in all levels and subjects, on the order of 0.16 standard deviations in middle school with almost a quarter of a standard deviation decline in high school math.

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.

We focus most of the evaluation on grade 3 achievement, but we also extend our analysis to examine curriculum effects on test scores in grades 4 and 5.

The most controversial of them include what is known as value - added models1 that use data from standardized tests of students as part of the overall measure of the effect that a teacher has on student achievement.

With a focus on developing teachers in the classroom, the new Marzano Causal Teacher Evaluation Model establishes the direct cause and effect relationship between teaching strategies and student achievement that helps teachers and leaders make the most informed decisions that yield the greatest benefits to students.

Research consistently finds that family engagement has a direct, positive effect on children's achievement and is the most accurate predictor of a student's success in school.

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.

Research confirms what logic and experience dictate: that teachers - in training are significantly less effective in supporting student achievement than those who are fully trained when they enter teaching, and that the negative effects are particularly pronounced for students whose success depends most acutely on fully - trained professionals.

Given the research conducted by Waters, Marzano, and McNulty, school districts should seek the 21 leadership responsibilities that have the most statistical effect on student achievement.

If lawmakers wanted to make the biggest effect on student achievement, they would focus on those home and community factors that matter most.

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.

The most significant finding was «the positive effects of closure and takeover in New Orleans explain 25 to 40 percent of the total effect of the New Orleans post-Katrina school reforms on student achievement.»

Simply Better: What Matters Most to Change the Odds for Student Success offers not a new «fad diet» for education, but rather the education reform equivalent of a «healthy lifestyle» — those things that decades of research says are most likely to have a big effect on student achievemMost to Change the Odds for Student Success offers not a new «fad diet» for education, but rather the education reform equivalent of a «healthy lifestyle» — those things that decades of research says are most likely to have a big effect on student achievemmost likely to have a big effect on student achievement.

One of the most widely admired educational studies is the Tennessee STAR class size project, which established that small classes had a significant positive effect on student achievement.

«On the basis of past experience with standards, the most reasonable prediction is that the common core will have little to no effect on student achievement,» Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institute predicts based on his analysis of America's past experiences with standardOn the basis of past experience with standards, the most reasonable prediction is that the common core will have little to no effect on student achievement,» Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institute predicts based on his analysis of America's past experiences with standardon student achievement,» Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institute predicts based on his analysis of America's past experiences with standardon his analysis of America's past experiences with standards.

Teachers are the most important in - school factor for student achievement.97 Indeed, research estimates that teachers have two to three times the effect of any other school factor, such as school services and leadership, on student academic performance.98 An oft - cited study underscores the scope of this effect, finding that students with three consecutive high - performing teachers scored approximately 50 percentile points higher than students placed with three consecutive low - performing teachers.99

It is more likely, however, that this enlargement of statewide achievement testing will only heighten the harmful effects that most of today's state - level achievement tests are having on children.

Downer and his team point out that while many studies have pointed to increased levels of engagement and learning related to teacher - student racial and ethnic match, notably,» no studies of ethnic match / mismatch effects in preschoolers have examined academic achievement outcomes,» and most of the work done in this area has been based on interviews with teachers or classroom observations, Downer said.

New research has identified teacher working conditions as having a greater effect on teacher turnover than most other factors, including student achievement and student characteristics.

The most recent report is a meta - analysis of over 200 experimental studies of social and emotional learning which have demonstrated that SEL programs not only impact social cognitions and behavioral adaptation, but in addition such programs have a substantial effect size on academic achievement.

Increasingly, scholars recognize that early childhood interventions have a stronger effect on particular populations of children, thereby contributing not just to overall increases in achievement for all participating students, but providing particular boosts to children who need it most.

However, evidence is emerging that shows that arts education can have powerful effects on student achievement, with the greatest gains for students in the lowest socioeconomic status quartile, those most at risk of academic failure.

Early interventions to promote the health and well - being of children have been shown to help mitigate the negative consequences of child maltreatment and have long - term positive effects on the health of maltreated children.5 Services are required that provide support to families as soon as they need it, and provide early permanency decisions.6 Interventions that exhibit these characteristics are most likely to improve children's mental health and well - being and reduce health and societal costs over the long term through increased likelihood that children will have higher educational achievements, successful lives and be less likely to be dependent on the state.

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