Sentences with phrase «negative effects on test»

Studies of these programs had shown large and negative effects on test scores by students who participate in them.

Ohio's statewide program has shown clear negative effects on test scores.

We also lack evidence of how public schools and private schools differ in their instructional and teaching strategies that would explain negative effects on test scores.

On the other hand, taking care of grandchildren five days a week or more had some negative effects on tests of mental sharpness.

But what about programs that have had a negative effect on test scores, such as those in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio?

Not exact matches

As Pastor Klein rightly points out, Mr. Nuechterlein inexplicably chooses women's ordination and other modern issues as tests of catholicity, despite their negative effects on church unity and their radical departure from historical Christianity.

Hyder further tested luteolin and its effects on subduing the migration of triple - negative breast cancer cells throughout the body.

Some people use them to test if they are sensitive to certain foods that may be keto - friendly but still have a negative effect on their progress.

Members who write for children came together to critics the «detrimental effects» of the current trend in education policy, as they feel the increasingly restrictive rules and focus on testing will have a negative impact on children's writing ability.

(Harrington, 2013) notes that NAPLAN testing and the My School website, which include results, have led to concerns that the tests could have a negative effect on students and schools.

Nine out of 10 primary teachers say that testing is having a negative effect on their mental health, while most believe children are also feeling the effect of stress

Two recent experimental evaluations of the Louisiana Scholarship Program found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data so far.

Multiple laboratory - style studies demonstrate the negative effects of laptop multitasking on test performance, including a 2013 study by Faria Sana, Tina Weston, and Nicholas J. Cepeda that found that test - score performance suffered not only if a student used a laptop during class, but also if he or she merely sat near a computer user.

Results of examining the differential effects of peers from troubled families by race and gender show relatively large negative and statistically significant test - score effects on white boys and statistically insignificant effects on black boys, black girls, and white girls.

One issue is that accountability in general, and test - based accountability in particular, can have negative effects on instruction, such as a dumbed - down, narrowed curriculum.

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 union has warned that «serious mistakes» have been made in relation to the planning and implementation of testing this academic year, which the NAHT says has had a negative effect on children's education.

(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.)

Many social science experiments show that reinforcing stereotypes before testing can have a negative effect on student performance — psychology vlogger Matt Mignogna explains more here.

Dynarski wrote in this forum last year about recent studies that had shown negative effects of vouchers on test scores in Louisiana and Indiana.

However, the most recent experimental evaluation of the D.C. voucher program showed negative test - score effects after one year, even though the study did not rely on a state - mandated test — and despite the fact that an earlier study of the program showed no effects.

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.

Dr. Thompson's book, A Teacher's Tale: Learning, Loving and Listening to Our Kids, is a case study of the unintended negative effects of test - driven, competition - driven reform on an inner city high school in the Oklahoma City Public School System.

WASHINGTON — In the most comprehensive study of its kind yet conducted, researchers from Boston College have found evidence to confirm the widespread view that standardized and textbook tests emphasize low - level thinking and knowledge and that they exert a profound, mostly negative, effect on classroom instruction.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

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.»

When I look within a three - mile radius, I find no evidence of spillover effects on test scores of students at district schools, positive or negative.

But the total effect on test scores also increases because the positive effect of adding a day to the school year is always greater than the negative effect of the needed reduction in class size.

They also have a negative effect on their classroom peers, resulting in decreased test scores and increased disciplinary problems according to a new study by economists Scott Carrell of the University of California — Davisand Mark Hoekstra of the University of Pittsburgh, published in the summer issue of Education Next.

Studying elementary schools in Arizona, Smith (1991) found other negative effects of testing on teachers: «Testing programs substantially reduce the time available for instruction, narrow curricular offerings and modes of instruction, and potentially reduce the capacities of teachers to teach content and to use methods and materials that are incompatible with standardized testing formats» testing on teachers: «Testing programs substantially reduce the time available for instruction, narrow curricular offerings and modes of instruction, and potentially reduce the capacities of teachers to teach content and to use methods and materials that are incompatible with standardized testing formats» Testing programs substantially reduce the time available for instruction, narrow curricular offerings and modes of instruction, and potentially reduce the capacities of teachers to teach content and to use methods and materials that are incompatible with standardized testing formats» testing formats» (p. 8).

Now, two studies of Louisiana's voucher program find the program had a negative effect on participants» test scores in its first couple years.

NUT general secretary Christine Blower said her union has «long argued that league tables, high - stakes testing and other accountability measures have a negative effect on children and young people».

A special state test for disabled students and other accommodations can help mitigate the negative effect on a school's overall performance but not necessarily completely, according to James Wollack, an associate professor and expert in testing and evaluation at UW - Madison.

Based on scores in nationally standardized tests (fourth grade reading and math and eighth grade reading and math), greater union membership of educators tends to have a positive impact on student test scores while larger class sizes tend to have a negative effect.

As a parent, it concerns me that you have required states to expand charter schools, increase standardized testing overall, tie teacher jobs to test scores, and turn around schools by firing half or more of the staff, when the overwhelming body of evidence — including that of the research arms of the federal government — is clear that these strategies do not improve academics overall and can have serious negative effects on children and their education.

Obama's education reform blueprint brings us full circle, as it itself is an innovation built upon knowledge gained during NCLB (in fact, growth - model testing was piloted during NCLB after the Bush administration observed the negative effects of over-emphasis on standardized testing).

In conversion charters, the type of school with the most advantaged student population, the effects on test score growth were negative and significant for all four cohorts.

In another letter to Mr Andrews, the CPHC said it had «serious concerns» about the tests, which would have «a negative effect on children's learning and well - being».

Like students with test anxiety, the negative effect of little effort on tests is that the scores do not reflect the students» actual knowledge and skills.

Race To Nowhere A documentary film and companion book that look at the negative effects of high - stakes testing and school standardization on children's mental health and college and career readiness.

The massive emphasis on new external, standardized exams, often with high stakes attached, has intensified the domination of summative tests over curriculum and instruction — even though the research examined by Black and William supports the conclusion that summative assessments tend to have a negative effect on student learning.

While the Gates call for a moratorium is oriented on increasing the possibility of realizing the positive potential of policies regarding the use of student test data for educator evaluation by providing more time to prepare educators for them, ASA on the other hand is concerned about the potential negative effects of such policies.

The ill effects of high - stakes testing - like narrowing learning environments to focus solely on reading, writing, and math, as well as the test - induced increase of high school dropouts — have had a disproportionately negative impact on low - income students and students of color.

The editorial goes on to cite as evidence the most recent «gold - standard» study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which analyzed Louisiana's voucher program and found negative effects on student test scores.

However, a recent study that tested garlic on dogs showed that it could lead to negative effects when ingested.

In those circumstances, the dogs are already well trained, the owner is in agreement that we go this route and they have been instructed by me each step of the way, we are typically working on more distance control (such as when the dog is 100 yards or more away from the handler), the dog has been tested and isn't showing any negative effects, we are putting the final polish on solidifying each of the trained behaviors, and we have determined that this is the best course for the welfare of the dog.

Though there aren't many items on the ingredients list to be concerned about, you need to test out the food and see the result to ensure no ingredient has negative effects on your specific dog.

It will not reverse the deleterious effects of a cat that already has one of the diseases associated with FeLV, and it will not cause an FeLV negative cat to appear positive on testing.

The first model tested Hypothesis 1 — that collectivism would exert a negative indirect effect on commitment through parental influence, but a positive indirect effect through family allocentrism.

In addition to independent contributions of temperament dimensions, potential moderator effects between negative affectivity and effortful control on ODD problems were also tested.