Sentences with phrase «size reduction experiments»

Also supporting my hypothesis is the evidence from class - size reduction experiments in Tennessee and Wisconsin.

Evaluating Propensity Score Matching Using Data from a Class Size Reduction Experiment

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To put these results in context, consider the Tennessee STAR Experiment, which produced some of the literature's highest estimated effects for class - size reduction.

The Tennessee experiment suggested that a 10 percent reduction in class size in grades K — 3 raised students» standard scores by 0.06.

The teachers in Tennessee knew they were participating in an experiment, which if successful could persuade the legislature to make class size reduction a statewide priority.

Finally, the Florida information tells us what happens when a state government tries to bring about class size reduction on a large scale, whereas the Tennessee experiment was limited to only a fairly small number of schools and to much larger reductions in class size.

Support for class size reduction is always tracked back to a single experiment in the mid-1980s, Project STAR in Tennessee.

Reviewing data from Project STAR — a longitudinal research study on class - size reduction in Tennessee and the most famous experiment on the topic — Spyros Konstantopoulos, an assistant professor of education and social policy at Northwestern...

• Dynarski shows that class size reduction in the Tennesee Project STAR experiment led to short - term achievement gains and long - run attainment gains.

Our massive, three - decade national experiment in class - size reduction has exacerbated the challenge of finding enough effective teachers.

For two decades, advocates of class - size reduction have referenced the findings from the Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) project, a class - size experiment conducted in Tennessee in the late 1980s.

The effect that we estimate of school finance reforms is twice as large as the effect implied by a $ 1,000 investment in class - size reduction, as measured by Project STAR — a much - studied four - year experiment in the state of Tennessee in the mid-1980s.

The Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the United States Department of Education has concluded that class size reduction is one of only four, evidence - based reforms that have been proven to increase student achievement through rigorous, randomized experiments — the «gold standard» of research.