Sentences with phrase «positive effects on student achievement»

They conclude that a teacher's experience, test scores and regular licensure all have positive effects on student achievement, with larger effects for math than for reading.

Research is also clear about the positive effects on student achievement of teachers with stronger academic backgrounds.

We anticipate dramatic positive effects on student achievement from our intervention that is designed so that it can be taken to scale with integrity and at acceptable costs.

School choice has proven positive effects on student achievement.

This working paper found that leadership and management changes associated with the school - restructuring NCLB sanction showed the strongest positive effects on student achievement, as measured by school - and student - level data.

The arts are NOT esteemed at C Prep despite the copious empirical data showing profound positive effects on student achievement through the arts.

Although some programs have positive effects on student achievement, not all students benefit equally.

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.

Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork (TIPS) has shown positive effects on student achievement at the middle school level.

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.

These data also reveal the significant challenges faced by schools in retaining teachers who have large positive effects on student achievement.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

If research continues to show that comprehensive character education has positive effects on student achievement as well, then the movement may in time gain more robust political and financial support from education policymakers.

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.

Competition from Sweden's private school choice program has a positive effect on student achievement in both public and private schools.

This curriculum has had a powerfully positive effect on student achievement in eastern Montana schools.

«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.

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.

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.

As the previous discussion illustrates, it is not time per se that has a positive effect on student achievement.

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.

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.

One of the most widely admired educational studies is the Tennessee STAR class size project, which established that small classes had a significant 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.

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.»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

To the extent that NCLB - like accountability had either positive or negative effects on measured student achievement, we would expect, once NCLB had been implemented, to observe those effects most distinctly in states that had not previously introduced similar policies.

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.

How can educators get reliable, centralized information in regard to computer programs» positive effects on students» achievement?

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).

They demonstrate that attending an oversubscribed charter middle or high school has a clear positive effect on students» math and reading achievement, but also find that this «on - average» result obscures dramatic variation.