Sentences with phrase «positive effects on student math»

It found that the intervention had a positive effect on both student math and reading comprehension.

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The authors found that PLCs have a positive effect on student learning: student scores increased in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies subject tests.

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.

But in a new article for Education Next, Sarah A. Cordes of Temple University examines the effects of charter schools on neighboring district school students in New York City and finds that these spillover effects are actually positive: students attending a district school within a half - mile radius of a charter school score better in math and reading and enjoy an increase in their likelihood of advancing to the next grade.

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.

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.

Only two of the approaches were found to have positive effects on students» math proficiency.

Giving teachers both the lesson plans and support had a positive, significant effect on students» end - of - year math test scores, according to the study, which was published as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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.

Their paper cites evidence from the last 20 years on the benefits of learning in nature, including students who were able to retain more information from maths and science lessons taught outdoors, to positive effects on stress relief and rejuvenated attention.

Students with a more positive attitude toward math were more likely to spend more time on their math homework — which, in turn, had a direct effect on their math achievement.

An analysis of nearly 7,000 American high school students found that effort had a «significant, positive effect on math gains.»

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.

Based on scores in nationally standardized tests (fourth grade reading and math and eighth grade reading and math), greater union membership of educators tends to have a positive impact on student test scores while larger class sizes tend to have a negative effect.

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.

Other research, this time by Northwestern University, proved that private schools actually have a positive effect on public schools, through a statistically significant improvement in student performance on state math and reading tests.

Their study concludes: ``... the preponderance of evidence suggests positive effects of the accountability movement in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s on student achievement, especially in math.»

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.

Charter schools also had significant positive effects on the reading scores of students with special needs.13 These results are supported by additional findings that charter schools have the most positive impacts on black and Hispanic students, and the least positive impacts on white students.14 In fact, research has found some evidence of negative impacts on white students and non-poor Hispanic students in both math and reading compared to their peers in traditional public schools.13 16

Prior rigorous evaluations of the program have generally found positive effects of TFA teachers on students» learning in math and science and no significant differences in reading or language arts, compared with non-TFA teachers» effects in the same schools.

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).

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 bothreading and math tends to start out neutral or negative in year one and trends to positive by years two or three of the program.

The report shows that the charter network has positive effects on students» academic success in math and reading, and that elementary and middle schools in particular show large gains in achievement.

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.