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The Effect of Math and Chess Integrated Instruction on Math Scores
, 2008
"... This study examined the effect on pupils ’ math scores when a truly integrated math and chess workbook was used as an instructional practice workbook. The results show that the integrated math and chess workbook significantly increased math scores. ..."
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This study examined the effect on pupils ’ math scores when a truly integrated math and chess workbook was used as an instructional practice workbook. The results show that the integrated math and chess workbook significantly increased math scores.
Examining the Relationship Between Math Scores and English Language Proficiency
"... Multiple studies propose that English proficiency dictates English language learners’ (ELLs) performances on mathematics assessments. The current study investigates the predictive power of English proficiency on mathematics scores, while controlling for gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and grade ..."
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Multiple studies propose that English proficiency dictates English language learners’ (ELLs) performances on mathematics assessments. The current study investigates the predictive power of English proficiency on mathematics scores, while controlling for gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and grade
The Impact of Individual Teachers on Student Achievement: Evidence From Panel Data
, 2003
"... Teacher quality is widely believed to be important for education, despite little ev-idence that teachers ’ credentials matter for student achievement. To accurately measure variation in achievement due to teachers ’ characteristics–both observ-able and unobservable–it is essential to identify teache ..."
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quality raises reading and math test scores by approximately.20 and.24 standard deviations, respectively, on a nationally standardized scale. In addition, teaching experience has statistically significant positive effects on reading test scores, controlling for fixed teacher quality.
Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
- in India,” NBER Working Paper
, 2005
"... This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial education program hired young women to teach students lagging behind in basic literacy and numeracy skills. It increased average test scores of all children in treatment schools by 0.28 stan ..."
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.28 standard deviation, mostly due to large gains experienced by children at the bottom of the test-score distribution. A computer-assisted learning program focusing on math increased math scores by 0.47 standard deviation. One year after the programs were over initial gains remained significant for targeted
Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation
, 2000
"... Peer effects are potentially important for understanding the optimal organization of schools, jobs, and neighborhoods, but finding evidence is difficult because people are selected into peer groups based, in part, on their unobservable characteristics. I identify the effects of peers whom a child en ..."
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is not generated by time trends or other non-idiosyncratic forces. I find that students are affected by the achievement level of their peers: a credibly exogenous change of 1 point in peers’ reading scores raises a student’s own score between 0.15 and 0.4 points, depending on the specification. Although I find
Teachers and student achievement in the Chicago public high schools
, 2003
"... Using unique administrative data on Chicago public high school students and their teachers, we estimate the importance of teachers for student mathematical achievement. We find that teachers are educationally and statistically important. To be sure, sampling variation and other measurement issues ca ..."
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, or 25 to 45 percent of an average school year, to a student's math score performance. Additionally, our teacher quality ratings remain relatively stable for an individual instructor over time, are reasonably impervious to controlling for non-math teachers, and do not appear to be driven
MATH SCORES BETWEEN AT-RISK FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS RECEIVING COMPUTER BASED MATH INSTRUCTION AND AT-RISK STUDENTS NOT RECEIVING COMPUTER BASED MATH INSTRUCTION By
, 2013
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Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement: An Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program,” Quarterly
- Journal of Economics
, 1998
"... In 1990 Wisconsin began providing vouchers to a small number of low-income students to attend nonsectarian private schools. Controlling for individual xed-effects, I compare the test scores of students selected to attend a participating private school with those of unsuccessful applicants and other ..."
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students from the Milwaukee public schools. I nd that students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program had faster math score gains than, but similar reading score gains to, the comparison groups. The results appear robust to data imputations and sample attrition, although these deciencies of the data
TITLE: Relationship between Praxis 1 scores and SAT/ACT scores:
"... A correlational study The purpose of this paper is to test the premise that there is a significant correlation between Praxis1 scores and SAT scores among African American students who are applying for admission into the teacher education program. Data for the study included the Praxis 1 (reading, w ..."
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, writing and math) scores and SAT (reading, writing and math) scores of African American students who attended a minority-populated institution between the years of 1998 and 2001. Sixty-four SAT math and 64 Praxis 1 math scores,
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