Sentences with phrase «of positive effects on student achievement»

The Educators» Guide found that of the 24 widely adopted CSR programs it examined, 8 had strong or promising evidence of positive effects on student achievement.

A Little Rock, Arkansas, performance - pay program lasted only three years and was not renewed by the local school board, despite evidence of positive effects on student achievement in math, reading, and language.

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Service learning can have positive effects on students» performance on subject - matter examinations and assessments and creates opportunities known to improve academic achievement, such as giving students the chance to act autonomously, develop good relationships with adults and peers, and increase personal self - esteem and feelings of self - efficacy.

Despite these differences, the bulk of the available, high - quality evidence on school voucher programs suggests that they do yield positive achievement effects for participating students.

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.

[viii] And a longer school day and year is a distinguishing feature of those charter schools that have the strongest positive effects on student achievement.

One of our studies was a randomized trial in a large urban district that found significant positive effects on reading achievement for students who used Accelerated Reader according to the publisher's recommendations.

Likewise, I found that a rising share of Hispanics has a positive effect on certain Hispanic students» scores, which could not be an effect of average peer achievement since raising the Hispanic share lowers average peer achievement.

These patterns suggest that the positive effects of charter school attendance on educational attainment are not due solely to measured differences in the achievement of students in charter and traditional public high schools.

However, research to date finds little evidence of a strong positive effect of teachers» pay on student achievement.

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.

After controlling for student and peer attributes and for selection bias, we still find a substantial positive and statistically significant effect of attending a network school on student achievement.

Vouchers have a moderately large, positive effect on the achievement of African - American students, but no discernible effect on the performance of students of other ethnicities.

Charter schools such as KIPP and the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy have large positive effects on the academic achievement of their (mostly disadvantaged) students.

We find that vouchers have a moderately large, positive effect on the achievement of African - American students, but no discernible effect on the performance of students of other ethnicities.

The estimated effects of the private school share on student achievement are somewhat smaller in science and reading than in math, but they remain substantial, positive, and statistically significant (see Figure 2).

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

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.

Statewide programs in Florida, Louisiana, and Ohio, however, already have demonstrated clear positive effects on the achievement of students who remain in public schools, confirming Caroline Hoxby's claim (see «Rising Tide,» features, Winter 2001) that competition from choice generates «a rising tide that lifts all boats.»

A meta - analysis (including 74 rigorous studies and over 56,000 K - 12 students) found that mathematics computer applications produce a small but positive effect on mathematics achievement, and, specifically, programs that supplement traditional math instruction with additional instruction at students» individualized assessed levels of need showed greater effects on math achievement.

If teachers tend to rely more on lectures when assigned more capable or attentive students, this would generate a positive relationship between the amount of time spent lecturing and student achievement, even in the absence of a true causal effect.

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.

As well, CT showed larger effects on the mathematics achievement of special need students than that of general education students, the positive effect of CT was greater when combined with a constructivist approach to teaching than with a traditional approach to teaching, and studies that used non-standardized tests as measures of mathematics achievement reported larger effects of CT than studies that used standardized tests.

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.

Of 24 whole - school reform designs, AIR found that only three had «strong» positive effects on student achievement: Direct Instruction, High Schools That Work, and Success for All, none of which were NAS designOf 24 whole - school reform designs, AIR found that only three had «strong» positive effects on student achievement: Direct Instruction, High Schools That Work, and Success for All, none of which were NAS designof which were NAS designs.

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.

These patterns suggest that increasing exposure to black teachers is beneficial at best and neutral at worst for all students in terms of discipline, and that increasing teacher diversity while keeping teacher quality constant would have a modest positive effect on the reading achievement of black students while having an opposite effect on the math achievement of white students.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — While it is widely believed that good school principals have a positive impact on student achievement, there has been little systematic research to date on the effect of strong school leadership.

Positive effects of charter schools on student achievement were found at both the middle and high school levels and across subjects.

These studies showing the direct positive effects of raising household income — even by small amounts — on student achievement make it plain that reducing poverty through stable, living wage jobs for all working families would also help improve educational outcomes.

These studies echo several of the findings found in the NCTAF report, including evidence of the positive effects of STEM PLCs on deepening teacher knowledge of disciplinary content and pedagogy, influencing teacher classroom practice, and inconclusive evidence on the impact of STEM PLCs on student achievement.

Spending 20 minutes at the start of the school day to help students talk through issues they may be having and practice social and emotional skills can have positive effects on their academic achievement.

Research has shown that family engagement has a direct, positive effect on student achievement and is an accurate predictor of a student's success in school, Schargel said.

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.

That, naturally, sparked a backlash from physical education teachers who rightly see their field as important as academics, and believe that Klein betrayed an ignorance of the importance of regular physical activity and its positive effect on student achievement.

Again in a middle school context, a quantitative analysis by Dunleavy and Heinecke (2008) showed significant positive effects of 1:1 laptop instruction on student achievement in science.

The shoddiness of curricula standards is matched by the slipshod quality of current curricula in schools; only one out of 63 elementary math programs surveyed by the Department of Education has been rated as having «potentially positive» effects on student achievement; even that rating is based on just one study that met the agency's stringent research standards.

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.

One conclusion that can be supported is that research over the years has demonstrated an overall positive effect of homework on student achievement.

But ERA's research shows that the RSD's willingness to close schools has actually been beneficial, finding that «roughly one - third of the reforms» large positive effects on measured student achievement can be attributed to this process.»

Overall, the research showed that the use of instructional grouping formats, especially student pairing, had more positive effects on students» reading achievement than whole class instruction.

Based on research from the second edition of Classroom Instruction That Works, this webinar begins with an overview of powerful instructional strategies that are shown to have a positive effect on student achievement.

Recently, Duke psychologist and researcher Harris Cooper concluded that an analysis of several research studies supports the assertion that homework does in fact have a positive effect on students» achievement.

In the review, Mindfulness - Based Interventions for Improving Cognition, Academic Achievement, Behavior and Socioemotional Functioning of Primary and Secondary Students, the authors found that mindfulness - based interventions have a statistically significant positive effect on cognitive and socioemotional processes for students, but that they do not improve behavior or academic perfStudents, the authors found that mindfulness - based interventions have a statistically significant positive effect on cognitive and socioemotional processes for students, but that they do not improve behavior or academic perfstudents, but that they do not improve behavior or academic performance.

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.»

This impact study found that the disbursement of federal Title I School Improvement Grants in the process designed by ESE have consistently positive effects on student academic achievement.

In addition to the research cited above that provides a clear rationale for what Barnett Berry terms «teacher - powered» schools, CTL sought local examples of teacher - directed leadership, professional learning and collaboration that are having a positive effect not only on teachers themselves, but on student achievement and school culture.

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.

Leading Educators Fellows who taught mathematics in New Orleans had a statistically significant, positive effect on student achievement, and the effect size was nearly three times that of attending a highly effective urban charter school.