This can have
a significant effect on achievement and is a strong predictor of high school completion.
The researchers concluded, «Taken as a whole, we believe the results illustrate that data - driven reform efforts can have not only a statistically
significant effect on achievement but a substantively meaningful impact as well.»
The results indicate that instructional practices have
a significant effect on achievement (Model 1), but that this effect is diminished when we introduce teachers «professional community (Model 2), and it is further diminished when we look at school level and school demographic characteristics (Model 3).
Not exact matches
With the exception of math
achievement in one year (2011 12), however, the
effect of this turnover
on student
achievement is not statistically
significant.
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.
In the gender comparison, all of the results show that one gender's idiosyncratic
achievement has a positive, highly statistically
significant effect on the idiosyncratic
achievement of its peers from the other gender group.
Research
on the
effect of existing private school voucher programs has not shown
significant achievements for students in those programs, the report asserts.
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.
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).
Yet, after reviewing 60 studies, Greenwald, Hedges, and Laine's firmest and most
significant conclusion was that verbal ability had by far the most
significant effect on student
achievement.
The research evidence also indicates that certain forms of distributed leadership have a modest but
significant indirect
effect on student
achievement (Leithwood & Mascall, 2008:546).
Furthermore, the other commonly investigated teacher characteristics (e.g., gender, experience, and credentials) do not show
significant effects on student
achievement in our analysis.
A meta - analysis of 85 independent
effect sizes extracted from 46 primary studies involving a total of 36,793 learners indicated statistically
significant positive
effects of CT
on mathematics
achievement.
High stakes for teachers and schools had
significant effects on all three measures of 8th - grade
achievement.
These data also reveal the
significant challenges faced by schools in retaining teachers who have large positive
effects on student
achievement.
This collaboration has helped jump - start this work across the state and shed light
on the many
significant challenges associated with overhauling the hoary systems in place, such as measuring student
achievement in «untested» grades and subjects, ensuring inter-rater agreement and accuracy of teacher practice observations, and ending the long - standing culture of «The Widget
Effect.»
The researchers found that troubled peers have a large and statistically
significant negative
effect on the math and reading
achievement of higher income children, but only a small and statistically insignificant
effect on the
achievement of low - income children.
An evaluation of the Apollo 20 program found that infusing these high - performing charter school best practices into HISD schools had a statistically
significant effect on math
achievement that rivals student -
achievement gains in math of high - performing charter schools.
The scale - up grants are aimed at practices, strategies or programs in which sponsors can show strong evidence of having a statistically
significant effect on improving student
achievement or growth.
In sum, results suggest that principal turnover has
significant negative
effects on student
achievement.
None of the measures of data use had a
significant effect on student
achievement when added to the equation
on their own, nor did they have any unique explanatory value when combined with the four demographic measures in the final equation.
Leadership practices targeted directly at improving instruction have
significant effects on teachers «working relationships and, indirectly,
on student
achievement.
The second (Jeynes 2007), focusing exclusively
on studies of urban secondary school students, found that family involvement had a
significant effect on student
achievement for minority and white students.
In fact, across all four tracks studied — honors / advanced, academic, general (reference), and vocational / other — effort had
significant, positive
effects on achievement in every track.
Studies have shown that when students have an effective or highly effective teacher three years in a row, the long - term
effects on achievement and life chances are
significant, and the more good teaching a student has, the bigger the
effect.
Schools with abrupt leadership disruptions
on average experience «
significant negative
effects»
on student
achievement.67 Furthermore, such schools «are often reported to suffer from lack of shared purpose, cynicism among staff about principal commitment, and an inability to maintain a school - improvement focus long enough to actually accomplish any meaningful change,» according to the Minnesota - Toronto report.68
It is this formative assessment that research concludes has a
significant effect on student
achievement, according to Dylan Wiliam.
Again in a middle school context, a quantitative analysis by Dunleavy and Heinecke (2008) showed
significant positive
effects of 1:1 laptop instruction
on student
achievement in science.
Certified teachers not only produce higher achieving students, but, conversely, teachers without certification showed
significant negative
effects on student
achievement (Darling - Hammond et al., 2005).
The analyses show no evidence of any
significant or sizeable
effect of failing the exam
on high school course - taking,
achievement, persistence, or graduation for students with test scores near the exit exam passing score.
Abella (2005) noted in her study of Miami - Dade County schools that K — 8 students had
significant short - term beneficial
effects on achievement, attendance, and suspension rates.
In the review, Mindfulness - Based Interventions for Improving Cognition, Academic
Achievement, Behavior and Socioemotional Functioning of Primary and Secondary Students, the authors found that mindfulness - based interventions have a statistically
significant positive
effect on cognitive and socioemotional processes for students, but that they do not improve behavior or academic performance.
The most
significant finding was «the positive
effects of closure and takeover in New Orleans explain 25 to 40 percent of the total
effect of the New Orleans post-Katrina school reforms
on student
achievement.»
I'm encouraged to see that ST Math continues to show
significant effects on math
achievement.
The authors concluded that infusing these best practices from charter schools had a statistically
significant effect on low - performing traditional public schools in math
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.
Related, and
on this point we agree, «teacher pay incentives is one area that we know a good deal about, based
on analysis of actual policy variation, and the results are not terribly promising... experiments generally show performance bonuses, a particular form of pay for performance, have no
significant student
achievement effects, whether the bonus is rewarded at the individual teacher level» (p. 89).
In particular, measures of resource equity have a
significant effect on student
achievement but are less actionable for schools directly.
Robert Marzano has conducted more than 60 educational studies showing that there is a
significant effect on students» academic
achievement when games and activities are applied to their learning process.
Student access to resources that shape their classroom experience — from funding to instructional supports — has a
significant effect on everything from
achievement and persistence to future earnings.
Looking at the impact of principals
on student
achievement, there are some small but
significant effects of the tenure of a principal in a school.
Collectively, the economic impact of the four
achievement gaps we studied is
significant — comparable, in their
effect on the US economy, to recessions since the 1970s (Exhibit 2).
Parents and caregivers are truly our students» first teachers — and school districts across the country are finding that getting parents more involved in their local schools can have a
significant, lasting
effect on student
achievement.
The majority of the expansion of the
achievement gap with age occurs between rather than within schools, and specific school and peer factors exert a
significant effect on the growth in the
achievement gap.
This qualification, however, does not diminish our finding that motivation and work settings — factors subject to leadership influence — have
significant effects on student
achievement.
This 0.12 score drop is the equivalent of an average student in the 50th percentile dropping to the 45th percentile after participating in the D.C. voucher program for one year.36 According to the IES study, participating in the D.C. voucher program had no statistically
significant effect on reading
achievement.37
This new WEAC Research Brief concludes that there is little evidence to substantiate the expansion of private voucher schools
on the grounds that they are intended to help student
achievement: «Research in Wisconsin and other states consistently shows little to no voucher school advantage, and in fact often documents
significant ill -
effects on students including: school closings, high rates of student attrition for lower - performing students, and decreased assessment scores in math and reading.»
Contrary to this logic, hundreds of studies have documented the positive and statistically
significant effects of afterschool programming
on academic
achievement («Taking a Deeper Dive» 4).
Frequently, administration applicants spend too much time
on perfecting the context of their accomplishments instead of refining the
significant effect their
achievements had
on the school community and its students.