Improving student achievement

A cognitive processing capacity model of teaching and studying improved immediate posttest and delayed posttest performances of low-ability students, while it reduced performance differences between the low- and high-ability students. A skeletal study outline and a restudy and retest provision also made positive contributions to performance.     

Enhancing student achievement through computer-generated homework

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of interactive computer-generated homework on student achievement. Of two sections of Physical Science I, one received homework via the computer; the other received printed, equivalent homework assignments. The results of this study indicate that the use of drill-and-practice computer homework minimizes differences among students with a corresponding decrease in the correlation between posttest scores and entry-level combined ACT science and mathematics scores. The results also support the basic assumption of mastery learning that appropriate instruction will decrease the relationship between aptitude and achievement.     

Teacher credentials and student achievement: Longitudinal analysis with student fixed effects

We use a rich administrative dataset from North Carolina to explore questions related to the relationship between teacher characteristics and credentials on the one hand and student achievement on the other. Though the basic questions underlying this research are not new—and, indeed, have been explored in many papers over the years within the rubric of the “education production function”—the availability of data on all teachers and students in North Carolina over a 10-year period allows us to explore them in more detail than has been possible in previous studies. We conclude that a teacher's experience, test scores and regular licensure all have positive effects on student achievement, with larger effects for math than for reading. Taken together the various teacher credentials exhibit quite large effects on math achievement, whether compared to the effects of changes in class size or to the socio-economic characteristics of students.     

Professional development schools and indicators of student achievement

Abstract

Two approaches were used in a study to examine the relation between indicators of student achievement, including the state mandated standardized achievement test, and the functioning of professional development schools (PDSs). Comparing schools that had PDS relationships with a midwestern university to schools that did not resulted in no significant differences in achievement. When PDS ratings relating to nine PDS goals and functions were compared to achievement indicators, higher staff development ratings were significantly related to higher student achievement. Limitations of the study precludes a definitive causal relation; however, the results suggest the need for further study and suggest the possibility of staff development as a major tool for student achievement in PDSs.     

The longitudinal effects of achievement goals and perceived control on university student achievement

In the area of achievement motivation, students’ beliefs pertaining to achievement goals and perceived control have separately guided a large amount theoretical and empirical research. However, limited research has considered the simultaneous effects of goals and control on achievement. The purpose of this study was to examine primary and secondary control as potential mediators of the effects of mastery and performance goals on achievement, measured as final percentage in Introductory Psychology and GPA. The sample consisted of 224 first-year university students at a Canadian doctoral granting university. All participants completed two surveys and consented to release their grades to the researchers. We found that neither performance goals nor mastery goals had direct effects on achievement. However, performance goals had a positive indirect effect on achievement through primary control. Indirect effects also emerged for mastery goals, positively through primary control and negatively through secondary control. These results offer one explanation for the often-found non-significant relationship between mastery and achievement and are discussed in light of interventions aimed to modify goals and/or control and thereby increase achievement.     

Online self-paced high-school class size and student achievement

Educational technology research and development - In the traditional brick-and-mortar classroom, small classes are generally perceived as desirable, but the benefits associated with particular...     

The determinants of student achievement in Turkey

Recent achievement test results show that Turkish students have been performing poorly compared to students from other countries. Using science literacy results from the PISA 2006 survey, we aim to measure the determinants of student achievement in Turkey within the education production function framework. We find that program types have large effects on student achievement. Since many students are allocated across program types as a result of a centralized exam, we try to control for past academic achievement and also for differences in the average socioeconomic background of students in a given school. The results indicate that students cluster in schools according to their socioeconomic background, and previous academic record is important, however, the effects of program types persist. Policies to augment socioeconomic background, such as conditional cash transfers and lifelong learning programs that prioritize parents will increase educational output.     

Social order perspective on raising student achievement

Despite significant and sustained gains recorded on the national secondary school leaving examinations between 1999–2004, South Africa’s large-scale secondary school reform has receive little international attention. Defenders of the reforms have argued that the ‘success’ in raising student achievement extended beyond gains in the percentage pass rates to include increased numbers of students completing secondary schooling, a growth in the number of students eligible for admissions to university and a decline in the number of ‘collapsed’ secondary schools in disadvantaged communities. Using a comprehensive dataset that includes national examination results for all candidates between 1996 and 2004, survey information from a group of ‘collapsed’ secondary schools located in disadvantaged communities, qualitative data from school ethnographies, as well as official and unofficial documentary sources, the paper locates student achievement within a framework of structural change in the post-apartheid social order. It shows how student achievement is embedded in complex shifts in the state, economy and civil society. Specifically, the paper examines how structural shifts are enacted at the levels of time-in-school, student expectations, school choice and student selectivity.

大学生社团功能定位及建议

大学生管理工作是高校管理的一个重要方面。在一定意义上讲,学生管理工作并不仅仅是作为专业管理队伍的辅导员的职责,它应该是整个学校的各个部门相互配合、分工合作的结果。因此,高校的学校管理更应该通过文化育人、环境育人、活动育人等各种软环境,来达到对学生潜移默化的影响,从而更好的促进学生的管理,而高校的各种形式的社团组织是不容忽视的一个重要力量。     

座位分布与学生学习成绩的相关性研究

在当今社会,学生的学习成绩一直为家长、老师所重视,影响学生学习成绩的因素很多,而学生在校的座位分布则成为教育学中令人关注的问题。有很多人也针对这一问题进行了深入地调查、研究,文章通过对在校学生的座位分布与学生学习成绩的相关性进行研究,探讨座位分布情况对学生学习情况的影响,从中找到行之有效的解决办法,让老师与学生共勉。     

学生公寓管理系统的设计与实现

高校学生公寓管理信息化是目前高校后勤管理的发展趋势,针对目前我校学生公寓管理现状,笔者借助ASP.NET技术设计并实现了基于B/S结构的高校学生公寓管理系统,本系统力求界面简洁、使用简单、功能完善;将通过系统的需求分析,数据库设计,功能模块实现所涉及的关键性技术进行阐述。     

Social capital and student achievement in Norwegian secondary schools

This paper investigates student social capital in Norwegian secondary schools and its effects on student achievement. Using data from the national survey ‘Young in Norway 2002’, it explores the concept and measurement of social capital in the school context by applying factor analysis. The paper also tests an analytical model that links student home background, social capital at school and student academic achievement, using a structural modelling technique. Control variables in the analysis are student age, gender, school size and home community. Testing the analytical model with female and male student subgroup data takes gender perspectives into consideration. Finally, statistical results are presented and discussed, and implications for further research are provided. The study finds that student social capital, generated from student social relations with parents, teachers and peers, has a significant influence on student achievement.     

Mathematics textbooks, opportunity to learn and student achievement

Opportunity to learn is considered an important contributing factor in learning outcomes. In some of the latest international comparative studies of mathematics achievement, such as SIMS and TIMSS, painstaking efforts have been made to find out what the participating students' opportunities to learn mathematics had been. However, there have been problems with relating the findings to student outcomes. This article approaches opportunity to learn in three different ways. Among these approaches, an item-based analysis of textbook contents resulted in fairly high correlations with student performance at the item level in TIMSS 1999. This implies that even a quite simple analysis of textbooks can produce valuable information when looking for explanations for student achievement in mathematics.