The study urges education leaders to make their professional - development decisions based on initiatives showing evidence of positive
effects on student 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.
We also explored the possibility that the objective retention program could have different
effects on students of different races.
First, charter schools appear to have modest positive effects, or at the very least, no significant negative
effects on student performance at district schools nearby.
We now know from research that relatively modest interventions aimed at shaping the culture of classrooms can have
powerful effects on student success.
However, research on school competition has yet to reveal a
strong effect on student achievement except when schools are in close proximity to one another.
He is entirely correct in observing the strong evidence showing that family income, parental education, family composition, housing stability, and other social factors have a
substantial effect on student achievement.
Often, the conversation about talent in educational organizations starts and ends with teachers since they have the most
direct effect on student achievement.
Having one expert teacher is good but having a number of expert teachers over successive years has a
dramatic effect on student achievement.
It is possible that this approach (which did enable teachers to implement the two - day lesson with fidelity) also helps explain the absence of teacher - level
effects on student motivation.
There was also evidence of a value -
added effect on student achievement from teachers who had a high - quality instructional coach.
Teacher feedback on student work can be a powerful tool to dramatically improve student learning BUT the quality must be good or it can actually have negative
effects on student growth.
Total effects on student achievement are greatest for work setting, followed by teacher motivation and the indirect influence of collective leadership.
Finally, other studies on the impact of selected principal preparation programs have found that these programs may have a positive but
modest effect on student learning.
For the last four decades, research has been telling us that individual teachers have
huge effects on student outcomes.
Given the
principals effect on student achievement, school districts can no longer select principals based solely on subjective attributes and procedure.