Teacher actions such as having big goals for students, planning purposefully with that goal in mind, and working relentlessly, all have proven to have
significant positive effects on student outcomes.
The review found a
net positive effect on student achievement — that's encouraging — but the researchers could not identify common characteristics from such a small and varied sample.
To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large
positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).
However, one used computer - assisted instruction, and five used whole - school or whole - class methods and reported significantly
positive effects on the students who had been in the lowest - achieving third or quarter of the classes at pretest.
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.
Two experimental studies of the Charlotte privately - funded scholarship program, here and here, reported
clear positive effects on student test scores but were limited to just a single year after random assignment.
Forty - four percent of respondents believe that having students spend more time using computers or other digital devices would have a
generally positive effect on student learning, while 35 % believe the effect would be negative.
Indeed, the first sentence of the National Academies own press release says «Despite being used for several decades, test - based incentives have not consistently
generated positive effects on student achievement.»
In fact, as the study's coauthor, Dr. Patrick Wolf, explains, the study found «school choice in Milwaukee has had a modest but
clearly positive effect on student outcomes.»
As is his wont, he ignores the results from a randomized field trial, conducted by Johns Hopkins researchers, that found that Success for All has large, statistically significant
positive effects on student literacy.
A second - order meta - analysis of 25 meta - analyses encompassing over 1,000 studies and 40 years of research on technology and classroom learning found that the use of technology in the classrooms shows a small to
moderate positive effect on student learning, as compared to technology - free traditional instruction.
Moderation analyses indicated that immediate questions and non-immediate questions had a more
positive effect on student retellings of an informational text and a narrative text, respectively, for less proficient than more proficient readers.
Teachers of color have a
particularly positive effect on students of color: They have been found to hold higher expectations for students of color and to be both more likely to refer students of color into gifted and talented programs and less likely to refer them for suspension and special education (Ford, 2010; Grissom & Redding, 2016).
According to their journal entries and responses to a survey, teachers have
seen positive effects on students» learning; on students» feelings of competence (self - efficacy); and on students» perceptions that they have the necessary tools to help advance their own learning (self - regulation).
When used in classes, clickers typically have either a benign or
positive effect on student performance on exams, depending on the method and extent of their use, and they create a more positive and active atmosphere in a large classroom.
For example, research has
demonstrated positive effects on students» problem - solving skills, attitudes about conflict, impulse control, social behavior, delinquency, and substance use (Weissberg et al. 1997, Caplan et al. 1992, Kasprow et al. 1991).