The study identified 13 best practices across three dimensions of teacher behaviors and strategies which are correlated to
significantly higher levels of student achievement in an online learning environment.
Not exact matches
Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a
high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit
students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education
Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part
of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a
student - centric system for
students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates
high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness
of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve
students significantly below grade
level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation
of entrepreneurial leadership.
Nor did
students with low initial
levels of achievement and applicants from SINI schools experience
significantly different reading gains from the program than
high achievers and non-SINI applicants.
This study found that
students whose teachers crafted
high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed
significantly greater gain on two independent measures
of student achievement at all three school
levels during all years under study.
Furthermore, Bryk & Schneider (2003) found that when school trust
levels were
high, so was
student achievement and inversely weak
levels of trust was
significantly linked to poor academic performance.
CTAC research found that
students whose teachers crafted
high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed
significantly greater gain on two independent measures
of student achievement at all three school
levels during all years under study.
Although we do not include a table reporting all correlations, we found SES to be
significantly (and unsurprisingly) related to
student achievement — a possible explanation for the
high level of influence parents and
students apparently exercise in schools in the
higher quintiles
of performance, which generally serve
higher SES
students.
That is, more precisely and as indicated in the actual study, SLOs were «not
significantly correlated with a teacher's value - added
student test scores;» hence, «a teacher is no more likely to meet his or her SLO targets if [his / her]
students have
higher levels of achievement [over time].»