The researchers found that some risk factors, such as high lead exposure or having a teenage mother at birth, didn't affect student achievement much.
Boston officials say this method provides a more logical, transparent way to distribute funds, although some critics say that the principals often don't have that much flexibility in how they can use the money, and that these funding formulas don't affect student achievement.
Not exact matches
He found that the money did
not make much of a difference in the academic
achievement of the
students most likely to be
affected.
Based on a review by independent researchers, the Education Commission of the States is discounting the conclusions of a small study that showed teachers from Tennessee who received national board certification did
not markedly
affect their
students»
achievement.
It is
not obvious, however, how large - scale teacher retirements, such as those resulting from an ERI, will
affect student academic
achievement.
And though the authors of this report acknowledge the «countless intervening factors» that «no doubt
affect a school board member's ability to influence district
achievement» and which they haven't covered in this report, they nevertheless provide an invaluable guide to policymakers for making a few simple changes in board governance that could effect major improvements for
student academic performance.
If there are no peer effects, the average
achievement of male (or female)
students should
not be
affected by the share of their peers who are female.
Still, the finding that family - background factors powerfully
affect student achievement is
not and never has been disputed.
These findings also illustrate vividly the problem introduced by the Coleman analytical approach: finding that measured teacher differences have limited ability to explain variations in
student achievement is very different from concluding that schools and teachers can
not powerfully
affect student outcomes.
There are a growing number of grammar problems in American classrooms that
affect not only a
student's ability in math and English but also may contribute to the
achievement gap according to the authors of Code - Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms.
This is because the institutions within a country do
not vary enough to test how different institutions
affect student achievement.
As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice —
not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices
affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.
Obviously, teacher quality is
not the only factor that
affects student achievement.
If unionization doesn't dramatically
affect student achievement one way or the other, does it at least attract more qualified teachers or increase retention?
The most striking finding was that charter — high school attendance may positively
affect the chance that a
student will graduate and go on to college — two critical outcomes that have
not been examined in previous research — suggesting the need to look beyond
achievement - test scores when measuring the effectiveness of charter schools.
«It's surprising that the court, which used its bully pulpit when it came to criticizing teacher protections, did
not spend one second discussing funding inequities, school segregation, high poverty or any other out - of - school or in - school factors that are proven to
affect student achievement and our children.
Having an advanced degree in subjects outside of math and science, however, does
not appear to
affect student achievement.
If earlier school conditions are important and
affect the impact of current resources on
student achievement, then one can
not assume constant, additive effects across all
students in the state — the RAND researchers» own methodology.
Practices that didn't seem to
affect student achievement, on the other hand, were class size, parent contracts, or the number of years schools were in operation, according to the report.
Praise can be a motivating tool we use to build relationships with
students, but if we should
not expect it to
affect achievement very profoundly.
Too many absences
not only can
affect achievement for the absent
student but also can disrupt learning for the entire class.
According to the January 2011 Programme for International
Student Assessment / PISA study, poverty
affects achievement,
NOT ability.
The most rigorous and comprehensive research on vouchers finds that they negatively
affect student achievement, but the impact of a nationwide voucher initiative would be particularly devastating in rural communities and small towns where there are
not enough
students to sustain multiple schools at each grade span.
The researchers noted, however, that «the relationships here are correlational,
not causal,» and the finding could be at odds with another finding from the study.13 Separately, the VAL - ED principal performance assessment (developed with support from The Wallace Foundation) measures principals on community and parent engagement.14 Vanderbilt researchers who developed the assessment are undertaking further study on how important this practice is in
affecting students,
achievement.
It is much harder to measure principal value - added because
students don't change principals every year, and principals» effects on
students are mostly indirect: principals
affect student achievement through teachers.
Notify each teacher, via e-mail, of each item in the General Appropriations Act and legislation that
affects teachers, including, but
not limited to, the Excellent Teaching Program, the Florida Teachers Classroom Supply Assistance Program, liability insurance protection for teachers, death benefits for teachers, substantive legislation, rules of the State Board of Education, and issues concerning
student achievement.
KM: To my thinking, excellent coaching is about transforming leaders so that they
not only increase
student achievement, but also positively
affect all of those around them.
A massive infusion of resources
not only for schools, but also for pre - and after - school and summer programs, and for resolving aspects of poverty that clearly
affect student achievement (e.g., high mobility rates; lead paint; nutrition; medical and dental care) might lead to substantial progress toward this goal, but the proposed resources in the bill are completely inadequate to the task.
Although school
achievement affects self - esteem and vice versa, the focus on improving
student self - esteem should
not be connected solely to improving academic
achievement.
These shortened, rigid, and unpredictable school schedules
not only
affect parents» day - to - day workloads, but they also reduce valuable learning time in the classroom, which negatively
affects student achievement.
Failure to retain effective teachers
not only is costing our school systems billions of dollars, but also is negatively
affecting student achievement (Teoh & Coggins, 2013).
But then you start to drill down into the question of just what, exactly, «essential» looks like, and you realize it's
not as simple as you might have hoped, particularly in the realm of teacher evaluation and how it
affects student achievement.
Longitudinal evaluations of the effects of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), the voucher program initiated by Governor Thompson, indicate that
student achievement outcomes were
not consistently
affected by vouchers but other vital
student outcomes, including educational attainment, civic values, criminal proclivities as well as parent and
student satisfaction were positively influenced by participation in private school choice.
And attending a school in which blacks and Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the
student body lowers
achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian
students but does
not affect white
students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whites).
Long - term sustainable and intensive professional development is needed to
affect not only teacher knowledge and practice, but also foster change in
student performance and
achievement.
Since future teachers can
not directly
affect students» current
achievement, a finding that future teacher assignments are associated with those outcomes («the future predicts the past») suggests a violation of the model assumptions that could lead to confounding.
Because most displaced
students transferred from one low - performing school to another, the move did
not, on average, significantly
affect student achievement.
Second, beyond selection bias, we don't know if there are other factors that
affect achievement that we are
not accounting for that are systematically different between
students in choice schools and
students in traditional public schools.
In another study (I could go on for pages, but I won't), researchers sought to determine how implementing a daily physical activity program that incorporated classroom lessons would
affect student achievement.
Children's health and learning are
affected when schools have poor air quality, can
not maintain a comfortable temperature, are excessively noisy, or are poorly lit.92 School infrastructure projects are a wise investment because well - maintained school buildings can last up to 50 years and facilitate
achievement of
student outcomes.
Additionally, while candidates may be reviewed on their competencies and skills, there may
not be an evaluation rubric or data that measures a candidate's ability to
affect student achievement.
Emdin (2016) stresses this kind of self - reflective work as particularly crucial, arguing: «The teacher must work to ensure that the institution does
not absolve them of the responsibility to acknowledge the baggage they bring to the classroom and analyze how that might
affect student achievement» (p. 43).
This
affects student achievement and attrition because
students are less inclined to remain at a challenging school when there is
not a strong community of teachers to support them, ones that have worked at the schools for a long time.
Schools are a social and learning environment that
affects not only the academic
achievements of
students but also their present and future health and well - being [14].
Perceived teacher -
student relationships had a negative
affect directly on
student achievement when school engagement was
not satisfied, Perceived teacher -
student relationships had a positive influence on the
student achievement via school engagement.