Sentences with phrase «negative effect on the achievement»

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

But individual absences caused by weather when schools don't close have negative effects on achievement

Examining 277 separate studies on the effect of teacher - pupil ratios and class - size averages on student achievement, he found that 15 percent of the studies found an improvement in achievement, while 72 percent found no effect at all — and 13 percent found that reducing class size had a negative effect on achievement.

Worse, 13 percent found that reducing class - size actually had a negative effect on achievement.

He examined 277 different studies on the effect of teacher - pupil ratios and class - size averages on student achievement, he found that 15 percent of the studies found an improvement in achievement, while 72 percent found no effect at all — and 13 percent found that reducing class size had a negative effect on achievement.

Unfortunately, the opposite is true as well: if a student has an ineffective teacher, the negative effect on her achievement may not be fully remediated for up to three years.»

Rather, its negative effects on achievement occurred by way of lowering students» academic motivation.

Not exact matches

Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects of low levels of parents» education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the educators — as well as the negative effects of family socioeconomic variables and race displayed in public schools.

Race - based stressors, including perceived discrimination and the fear of fulfilling negative stereotypes, have psychological effects and physiological effects on the body, which may contribute to the racial - ethnic achievement gap, new Northwestern University research suggests.

This can have a negative effect on their academic achievement, as well as later success in life.

Burris combines reviews of academic studies, as well as personal anecdotes from her own experience as an educator, to argue that ability tracking has a negative effect on the educational achievement of «low track» students while also undermining social cohesion.

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.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

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.

Still, if North Carolina's traditional public schools improved in response to their presence, the apparently negative effects of charter schools on the achievement of students who attend them could be offset by more positive statewide effects.

However, charter schools in North Carolina exhibit negative effects on student achievement even after controlling for student turnover rates.

While some critics have charged that changing to a four - day school week may have negative effects on student achievement, researchers at Colorado State University have completed a study indicating that the switch to a four - day schedule has «no effect» on achievement as measured by the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

(The negative effect to which Darling - Hammond refers was probably what Summers and Wolfe noted as the «perversely» negative relationship between 6th grade teachers» scores on the NTE Core Battery, a test of pedagogy and basic skills, and their students» achievement.)

The separate studies credit small schools with reducing the negative effects of poverty on student achievement, reducing student violence, increasing parent involvement, and making students feel accountable for their behavior and grades.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

Researchers Craig Howley, of Ohio University and the Appalachia Educational Laboratory, and Robert Bickel, of Marshall University, set out to find out whether smaller schools could reduce the negative effects of poverty on student achievement.

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.

One possible explanation for the negative effects on academic achievement is that the better schools opted not to accept LSP students because the program was over-regulated.

Second, the absence of effects on achievement in nearby traditional public schools suggests that the loss of students to charter schools is not having negative achievement effects on traditional public schools, but it also suggests that charter schools may not produce the hoped - for positive competitive effects in traditional public schools.

Thus, simply assigning homework may not produce the desired effect — in fact, ill - structured homework might even have a negative effect on student achievement.

Foremost among these issues is the generally poor quality of state assessments of student achievement and a resulting negative effect on instruction.

A third study using a different approach and using data only on Texas schools finds mixed results in the first year of implementation including negative impacts on student achievement in elementary and middle school, and positive effects on high school graduation rates.

Like the Cook research on behavior, the Rockoff and Lockwood study finds that the negative achievement effect on children who moved into middle school «persists at least through 8th grade, the highest grade for which we could obtain test scores.»

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.

Nation's Only Federally Funded Voucher Program Has Negative Effect on Student Achievement, Study Finds (The Washington Post) Associate Professor Martin West weighs in on new research behind voucher programs and their impact on students» performance.

The researchers found that troubled peers have a large and statistically significant negative effect on the math and reading achievement of higher income children, but only a small and statistically insignificant effect on the achievement of low - income children.

In sum, results suggest that principal turnover has significant negative effects on student achievement.

While rapid principal turnover has negative effects on student achievement «on average,» some individual schools are able to manage rapid turnover in ways that prevent achievement decline.

But even that, if you look at the literature, you'll find that about one - third of the studies indicate that by giving feedback within the context of those studies actually had a negative effect on the student achievement.

The National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) released in December 2015 the first nationally recognized random assignment study to ever demonstrate that a school voucher program — LSP — had a negative effect on student achievement in its first year.

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.

Schools with abrupt leadership disruptions on average experience «significant negative effects» on student achievement.67 Furthermore, such schools «are often reported to suffer from lack of shared purpose, cynicism among staff about principal commitment, and an inability to maintain a school - improvement focus long enough to actually accomplish any meaningful change,» according to the Minnesota - Toronto report.68

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.

Middle - class schools are 22 times as likely to be high performing as high - poverty schools, in part because disadvantaged students face extra obstacles, but in part because economic segregation has an independent, negative effect on student achievement.

Certified teachers not only produce higher achieving students, but, conversely, teachers without certification showed significant negative effects on student achievement (Darling - Hammond et al., 2005).

Parents, educators and college administrators have long wrestled with the unintended negative side effects of the admissions process, like the intense focus on personal achievement and the unfair advantages of more affluent students.

While they found school leadership could have a positive effect on student achievement, they also discovered school leadership could have a negative effect if a principal lacked specific leadership responsibilities such as understanding the level of change that needed to be implemented at a given school.

Data from a meta - analysis of the participant effects of private school vouchers illustrates that the effect of vouchers on participating students» academic achievement in both reading and math tends to start out neutral or negative in year one and trends to positive by years two or three of the program.

These elements also lessen the negative effects teacher turnover have on student achievement and school budgets.

A new paper by researchers at the University of Michigan, Stanford and the University of Virginia found that high teacher turnover in elementary schools has a negative effect on students» math and English achievement, regardless of whether the teachers who leave are considered especially good at their jobs.

The report found that «a more positive school climate is related to improved academic achievement, beyond the expected level of achievement based on student and school socioeconomic status backgrounds,» and can mitigate the negative effects of poverty on academic achievement.

The study found that the voucher program had a negative effect on student achievement in both reading and math after its first two years.

The negative effect that absences have on achievement suggests that lengthening the school day or year will not necessarily have the desired effect of raising student performance, but that policies to improve attendance might help.

According to state and national data, chronic absenteeism — which has a profoundly negative effect on student achievement — is closely correlated with ongoing and / or unmet health care needs (U.S. Department of Education, 2016).

Data from a meta - analysis of the participant effects of private school vouchers illustrates that the effect of vouchers on participating students» academic achievement in bothreading and math tends to start out neutral or negative in year one and trends to positive by years two or three of the program.