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.
Competition from Sweden's private school choice program has
a positive effect on student achievement in both public and private schools.
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 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.
«We know that children must be able to read in order to succeed, and we know that highly - qualified teachers have
a positive effect on student achievement,» Gov. Phil Bryant said.
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.
Preliminary data suggests that continued mindfulness practice does have
a positive effect on student achievement as evidenced by increased graduation rates and a decrease in the D / F rate.
For example, I think that while many teaching strategies are research - based, there are many other strategies teachers may explore based on their own creativity and an intuition that the strategy could have
positive effects on student achievement.
Although some programs have
positive effects on student achievement, not all students benefit equally.
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.
The extent to which the Correlates are in place in your school will have a dramatic,
positive effect on student achievement.
As the previous discussion illustrates, it is not time per se that has
a positive effect on student achievement.
While changes in teacher evaluation need to happen and could definitely have
positive effects on student achievement, I think this intense discussion about the importance of teacher evaluation is off - base.
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.
The debate surrounding homework's usefulness wages on, and depending on the study you come across, you'll read that homework does and does not have
a positive effect on student achievement.
The RAND corporation found that in New York, «[T] he program had
no positive effects on student achievement at any grade level.
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.
The gains at the high school level were «particularly noteworthy, as there is little systematic evidence that any of the many high school reforms attempted to date have had
a positive effect on student achievement.»
That report reviewed and rated the evidence of (a)
positive effect on student achievement and (b) support that the reviewed developers provided to schools.
Question You didn't rank any models as having Very Strong evidence that they have
positive effects on student achievement.
«Overall,» write the RAND researchers, «the program had
no positive effects on student achievement at any grade level.
They also point to research that suggests making it easier to fire teachers has
positive effects on student achievement.
We know, for example, that the average is the wrong measurement of student proficiency (O'Connor, 2007); that the zero on a 100 - point scale is a math error (Reeves, 2004); and that the implementation of effective grading practices can have
a positive effect on student achievement, discipline, and attendance (Reeves, 2008).
For example, Ruzic & O'Connell (2001) found that long - term use of manipulatives has
a positive effect on student achievement by allowing students to use concrete objects to observe, model, and internalize abstract concepts.
A study conducted by American Institutes for Research (AIR) for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) shows that even small amounts of the right kind of feedback to teachers and principals can have
a positive effect on student achievement in math.