Sentences with phrase «studied student achievement»

Stanford Professor Erick Hanushek, who has studied student achievement and education economics, adds,

I study student achievement and was curious.

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A more recent study is even more striking: «The achievement of students in Catholic high schools was less dependent on family background and personal circumstances than was true in the public schools.»

One study concluded: «The achievement growth rates of Catholic school attendance are especially strong for students who are in one way or another disadvantaged: lower socio - economic status, black, or Hispanic.»

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

Dr. Pope's org Challenge Success, which used more than twenty studies on homework for its papers, found similar results, reporting,» [I] n a recent study comparing the standardized math scores across multiple countries, no positive link was found between student math achievement and the frequency or amount of homework given (Baker & LeTendre, 2005).

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

Read the full study: School Spending and Student Achievement in Michigan: What's the Relationship?

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

«Study: High - stakes tests a likely factor in STEM performance gap: Findings suggest that changing how instructors assess students could help close the achievement gap in introductory STEM courses.»

«This study supports a growing body of work demonstrating that teaching students a contextual understanding of difference — i.e., recognizing that people's differences come from participating in and adapting to diverse sociocultural contexts — can be leveraged to foster student success and close achievement gaps,» summarizes Hamedani.

Choi, Christine Lippard, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State; and Shinyoung Jeon, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, analyzed data measuring inhibitory control (the ability to pay attention and control natural, but unnecessary thoughts or behaviors) and math achievement for low - income students in Head Start through kindergarten.

«There's an increasingly favorable bias toward «nontraditional» medical school applicants: students who are more mature and have experience and achievement beyond their premed studies are generally a better bet to be successful in medical school and beyond,» Albert says.

The study's finding that emotions influenced achievement held constant even after taking into account the effects of other variables, including students» intelligence and gender, and families» socioeconomic status.

Now a new longitudinal study out of Germany investigates how students» emotions in a school context relate to their achievement.

In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.

The study focused on achievement in math, which is not only important for education and economic productivity but is also known to prompt strong emotional reactions in students.

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.

The study also shows that the departure of teachers who were identified by IMPACT as low - performing resulted in substantial improvement in overall teacher quality and student achievement.

Of the three alternative certification pathways studied, teachers who enter through the path requiring no coursework in education have the greatest effect on student achievement, substantially larger than that of traditionally prepared teachers.

A study of one Texas school district reveals one of the best evidence - based ways ever found to close the educational achievement gap between black and white students.

A rigorous study documenting the lab's impact on student achievement awaits another day.

IQ is generally considered a predictor of learning ability, but in this study with students who are intellectually disabled or low IQ, the results showed that IQ didn't always predict academic achievement.

Replacing Kevin Spacey (because of sexual misconduct allegations) with Oscar winner Christopher Plummer («Beginners»), and having him tap into the psyche of a new, unfamiliar character, and execute it with the sheer ferocity in which he displays, is an achievement that film students and filmmakers will study for years to come.

Jasmine is a registered psychologist whose PhD research was a longitudinal study investigating motivation, self - concept and student achievement of high school students.

Test - based incentive programs, as designed and implemented in the programs that have been carefully studied, have not increased student achievement enough to bring the United States close to the levels of the highest achieving countries.

Results of the study indicate that LTTA students perform better on math computation and estimation (as measured by the Canadian Achievement Test, CAT · 3) compared to students in similar non-LTTA schools.

In this literature review on children's gardening covering 20 studies between 1995 and 2007, school - gardening programs were shown generally to increase students» science achievement and food behavior.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

A study published in Ed Next in 2010 found that weather - related school cancellations have a measurable impact on student achievement.

The Stanford Study demonstrates the impact of these and other strategies on the achievement levels of students:

In their analysis, they found that Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) had highly promising and significant evidence of effectiveness (six studies across multiple states) to support the positive impact the program has on student achievement.

A 1999 study by Lisa Heschong, principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (and expert in daylighting, lighting energy use, and human factors in building design), illustrated the relationship between natural light and achievement by looking at more than 21,000 students across three states.

Burris combines reviews of academic studies, as well as personal anecdotes from her own experience as an educator, to argue that ability tracking has a negative effect on the educational achievement of «low track» students while also undermining social cohesion.

The consortium, known as AIR / MAP, made the extraordinary claim in its November 2002 proposal that its study would answer the question, «What does it actually cost to provide the resources that each school needs to allow its students to meet the achievement levels specified in the Regents Learning Standards?»

And a Mathematica study is due out soon studying the impact on student achievement when high value - added teachers were offered bonuses to move and randomly assigned among a set of schools that had volunteered to hire them.

A 2010 study by Mark Berends and Roberto Penaloza of longitudinal data over 30 years demonstrates a relationship between increasing segregation of black and Latino students and growth in math achievement gaps between these groups and white students.

Washington — Although the federal Chapter 1 program bypasses some schools with high poverty rates and some students with low achievement levels, it generally reaches the disadvantaged children it was meant to benefit, a new Education Department study concludes.

Rather, we found that the particular charter schools in the Boston area (especially those that were part of the lottery study) seem to be having large impacts on student achievement.

In her research regarding student motivation, she has studied the origins of mindsets, their role in motivation and self - regulation, and their impact on achievement and interpersonal processes.

Despite the united front of opposition, with studies like Carol Klein's 2006 Virtual Charter Schools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stop them.

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A team of researchers created and tested four social studies units that improved achievement among students in high - poverty schools.

Studies show that sustained and well - integrated social and emotional learning (SEL) engages students and improves achievement.

Results from the latest cycle of the PIRLS assessment (that's the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) show the literacy achievement of Year 4 students in Australia has improved.

Student achievement data at Highlands Elementary School suggest that lesson study is paying off for students (Lewis, Perry, Hurd, and O'Connell, 2006).

Achievement; growth; social studies in certain grades; growth of students; on - track high school graduation for 9th graders; progress in English - language proficiency; four -, five -, and six - year cohort graduation rates

The individual studies of the privately funded K — 12 scholarship programs in the District of Columbia and Dayton reported overall achievement gains only for the large subgroup of African American students in the program.

For example, a quasi-experimental study by the Educational Testing Service found that teachers with a high level of engagement in a large - scale mentoring program (California Formative Assessment and Support System for Teachers) improved both teaching practices and student achievement, producing an effect size equivalent to half a year's growth (Thompson, Goe, Paek, and Ponte, 2004).

Australian results from the first of two major international education studies have indicated Years 4 and 8 student achievement in mathematics and science has flatlined over the past 20 years.