Sentences with phrase «significant positive effect on student achievement»

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.

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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.

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).

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

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.

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 perfStudents, 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 perfstudents, 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.»

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.

In sum, participation in the full intervention during the elementary grades was predictive of enduring significant positive effects through age 18 years on students» bonds to school, achievement, and school behavior.