Teachers are widely agreed upon to be the most important in - school
factor influencing student achievement, but we are less sure about the mechanisms through which teachers can have an impact.
More precisely he compares media to «vehicles that deliver instruction but do
not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers our groceries causes changes in our nutrition».
Given a large data set, I also was able to account for characteristics of schools that I could not directly measure but that might
influence student achievement over the school year.
You can learn more about how family background
influences student achievement by reading the full article in our Spring 2016 issue, which commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of James S. Coleman's «Equality of Educational Opportunity» report.
We also adjusted the data to account for changes in state spending on education and for parents» educational levels, which provides controls for simultaneous changes in state policies or differences in demographics that might confound the analysis of how accountability
systems influenced student achievement.
The crucial assumption made by our method is that school choice is influenced by local school supply, but school densities at the community level do not
directly influence student achievement.
-LSB-...] influence student achievement.
This study presents evidence on whether NCLB has
influenced student achievement based on an analysis of state - level panel data on student test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
Most important, the teachers and leaders who implement strategic plans should begin the process with the confidence that their professional practices
truly influence student achievement.
The National Association of State Boards of Education states that effective teaching is the primary factor that
influences student achievement after accounting for student characteristics.
Education researcher John Hattie's ground - breaking research about the factors that
influence student achievement gives us much to think about in terms of our habits and practices.
According to Hattie's analysis, collective teacher efficacy ranks as the second highest factor
influencing student achievement with an effect size of 1.57 (far exceeding the.40 effect size considered to be effective).
Two variables that
profoundly influence student achievement are the quality of instruction provided by teachers (Darling - Hammond & Sykes, 1999; Education Trust, 1998) and the quality of leadership provided by school principals (Davis, Darling - Hammond, LaPointe, & Meyerson, 2005; Leithwood, Louis, Anderson, & Wahlstrom, 2004).
You can learn more about how family
background influences student achievement by reading the full article in our Spring 2016 issue or by listening to author Anna J. Egalite discuss her findings on the EdNext podcast.
When paired with developmentally appropriate learning goals, effective feedback ranks as the second most important school - level
factor influencing student achievement, after a guaranteed and viable curriculum (Marzano, 2003).
To provide a more rigorous evaluation of the program's impact, we compare the reading and English performance of individual students attending NLP and comparison schools in 1997 and 1998, while taking into account a wide variety of school characteristics that could
also influence student achievement.
This year, the top article was «How Family Background
Influences Student Achievement: Can schools narrow the gap?»
The article looks at four different family variables that may
influence student achievement and at ways in which schools can offset the effects of these variables.
At the same time, other national education policies and programs were in place that may also have
influenced student achievement.
The broad interest in understanding whether NCLB has
influenced student achievement, both overall and for key subgroups, has motivated careful scrutiny of trend data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and other sources.
To isolate the impact of attending a middle school from the many other factors that
influence student achievement, we combined two basic strategies.
Even after accounting for a host of other factors that
influence student achievement, students who eventually attend middle schools go from scoring better than their counterparts in K — 8 schools in the year prior to transitioning to middle school to scoring below where we would expect if they were not attending a middle school.
On this week's Ed Next podcast, Marty West of Education Next talks with Anna Egalite, assistant professor of education at North Carolina State University and the author of «How Family Background
Influences Student Achievement,» which appears in the Spring 2016 issue of the journal commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jim Coleman's landmark report.
How Family Background
Influences Student Achievement Can schools narrow the gap?
Note, however, that we did not construct the indices based on any hypotheses of our own about which aspects of teaching practice measured by TES were most likely to
influence student achievement.
This is a significant sum, but the Harlem Children's Zone, a much - admired model for Community Schools, runs its two Promise Academy schools and the related network of community services on an annual budget of $ 100 million (see «How Family Background
Influences Student Achievement,» features, Spring 2016).