Download or read book Comparative Analysis of the Academic Outcomes Among Public Charter and Traditional Schools written by Lisa Nappi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of the Academic Outcomes of Ohio Public K 8 Charter Schools and Their Comparison Districts written by Ward D. Barnett and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to analyze the academic quality of Ohio K-8 charter schools as measured by the Ohio Achievement Test. For the purpose of answering the research questions, this study utilized an ex post facto, quantitative research design. Student performance data are compared between the non-traditional schools of choice option known as charter schools and traditional comparable public schools. Achievement is analyzed via an evaluation framework for charter school quality developed by the National Consensus Panel on Charter School Academic Quality. The percentage of students who pass the reading and mathematics of the Ohio grades 3,5 and 8 achievement test, reported on the individual charter schools and their comparable traditional district school's local report card (LRC), was the dependent variable. From the sample population of charter school buildings, LRCs were collected from the Ohio Department of Education website for at least 3 years of previous Ohio Achievement Test data. The percentage of students who have passed the Reading and Math sections of the Ohio Achievement Test for grades 3, 5 and 8 was collected. Descriptive statistics and paired t-tests were used to determine the difference between means for each sub-test between charter schools and the traditional comparable school district. Academic achievement was significantly better in 8th grade reading for African American students in charter schools when compared to African American students in the comparable traditional district school. Traditional comparable school districts outperformed charter schools in overall reading and mathematics.
Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools written by Jodi Renee Abbott Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this descriptive research study was to compare charter and traditional public schools on the academic knowledge of fifth grade students as measured by Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) in a suburb of a large southwestern city. This analysis also compared charter and traditional public schools on AYP status. It was hypothesized that there would be one type of school that demonstrated statistically higher achievement and more instances of meeting AYP. Data were collected over the course of the 2009, 2010 and 2011 school years. Between 2005 and 2011, charter schools grew at a higher rate than traditional public schools. The state of Arizona measures student achievement based on knowledge of the state academic standards as measured by the AIMS assessment. Twenty-seven matched pairs of charter and traditional public schools were compared on similar socioeconomic status, location and ethnicity. Student percentages were collected and analyzed using repeated measures factorial ANOVA. The analysis suggested no statistical difference in the academic achievement between charter and traditional public schools. It was also found that there was no statistical difference between the number of charter and traditional public schools who met AYP. Within a suburb of a large southwestern city, charter schools are growing in number, but do not significantly outperform their traditional public school counterparts.
Download or read book Charter School Outcomes written by Mark Berends and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice, a research consortium headed by Vanderbilt University, this volume examines the growth and outcomes of the charter school movement. Starting in 1992-93 when the nation’s first charter school was opened in Minneapolis, the movement has now spread to 40 states and the District of Columbia and by 2005-06 enrolled 1,040,536 students in 3,613 charter schools. The purpose of this volume is to help monitor this fast-growing movement by compiling, organizing and making available some of the most rigorous and policy-relevant research on K-12 charter schools. Key features of this important new book include: Expertise – The National Center on School Choice includes internationally known scholars from the following institutions: Harvard University, Brown University, Stanford University, Brookings Institution, National Bureau of Economic Research and Northwest Evaluation Association. Cross-Disciplinary – The volume brings together material from related disciplines and methodologies that are associated with the individual and systemic effects of charter schools. Coherent Structure – Each section begins with a lengthy introduction that summarizes the themes and major findings of that section. A summarizing chapter by Mark Schneider, the Commissioner of the National Center on Educational Statistics, concludes the book. This volume is appropriate for researchers, instructors and graduate students in education policy programs and in political science and economics, as well as in-service administrators, policy makers, and providers.
Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of Academic Achievement Among Traditional Public High School Students and Public Charter High School Students written by Janie Faye Gill and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research Comparing Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools Information Capsule written by Christie Blazer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 2008-09 school year, over 5,000 charter schools operated in 40 states and Washington, D.C. and were attended by over 1.5 million students, or about three percent of the nation's public school students. Although the first U.S. charter schools opened in 1992, debate continues over whether they provide students with a better education than traditional public schools. This Information Capsule reviews studies that compared the achievement of students attending charter and traditional public schools and found mixed results. Most studies have found that charter schools produce achievement gains that are about the same or lower than those found in traditional public schools, although a few studies have concluded that charter schools have a positive effect on student achievement. These inconsistent findings have led some researchers to conclude that the rapid growth of the charter school movement has significantly outpaced the evidence supporting its impact on student achievement. Because there is such wide variation from state to state in charter schools' mission, funding, student populations, size, grade level coverage, and independence from regulations and teacher contracts, there may never be a single definitive study that determines if charter or traditional public schools provide students with better learning opportunities. This Information Capsule also reviews research comparing the qualifications of teachers at charter schools and traditional public schools and student segregation in charter schools. Most studies have found that charter school teachers have less teaching experience than teachers at traditional public schools. In addition, charter schools appear to intensify racial and economic segregation. Finally, information on charter schools operating within the state of Florida and in Miami-Dade County is provided. A more comprehensive Literature Review on charter school research is available at Research Services' Web site (http://drs.dadeschools.net). The Literature Review also summarizes research conducted in the following areas: student achievement at new versus more established charter schools; student achievement at conversion versus start-up charter schools; student mobility at charter schools; charter school teacher attrition rates; demographic characteristics of students attending charter schools; and the impact of charter school competition on the achievement of students remaining in traditional public schools. (Contains 4 tables.).
Download or read book Choices and Challenges written by Priscilla Wohlstetter and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As charter schools enter their third decade, research in this key sector remains overwhelmingly contradictory and confused. Many studies are narrowly focused; some do not meet the standards for high-quality academic research. In this definitive work, Wohlstetter and her colleagues isolate and distill the high-quality research on charter schools to identify the contextual and operational factors that influence these schools’ performances. The authors examine the track record of the charter sector in light of the wide range of goals set for these schools in state authorizing legislation—at the classroom level, the level of the school community, and system-wide. In particular, they show how the evolution of the charter movement has shaped research questions and findings. By highlighting what we know about the conditions for success in charter schools, the authors make a significant contribution to current debates in policy and practice, both within the charter sector and in the larger landscape of public education.
Download or read book Student Achievement in Philadelphia Regional Charter Schools a Comparative and Longitudinal Study written by Violet Hanzely Sible and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated fifth-grade student achievement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania regional public charter schools as compared to student achievement in traditional public schools, and determined whether the performance of charter schools changed over time. Research questions asked 1) how does student achievement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania regional public charters compare to that of traditional public schools, and 2) do Philadelphia, Pennsylvania regional charter schools show increased student achievement over time? Drawing on an approach used by Miron (2002; 2005; 2007), the creation of adjusted, or filtered scores using regression models (one for reading and one for mathematics) that correlated slope and intercept performed with traditional public schools and public charter schools for each of the five years of the study. This approach sanctioned the investigation to control for the influence of student achievement predictors generally recognized in the research literature: socioeconomic status, ethnicity, special needs status, and school size. The result produced three measures for each of the schools: actual scores, predicted scores based on the adjustment for demographic variables and the computed difference between the actual and predicted scores. A comparison and analysis of score differences overtime delineated whether the gap between public charter and traditional public school achievement changed. As public charter schools matured, and as the number of operational public charters increased, Ttest results confirmed that charter school performance in the Philadelphia region improved, as well as, surpassed their traditional public school counterparts improved. Results of the study have policy implications regarding public charter school funding, methods to properly assess school-wide student achievement, and the equitable treatment of both public charter and traditional public schools with regard to sanctions related to student achievement outcomes. Further, study findings may guide future research about public charter schools in terms of methodologies and research models that might extend the line of inquiry.
Download or read book Charter Schools in Eight States written by Ron Zimmer and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charter schools now exist in 40 states, but the best charter-school studies to date have focused on individual states. This book examines charter schools in eight states with varied policy contexts. It assesses the characteristics of charter schools' students, their effectiveness in raising student achievement and promoting graduation and college entry, and their competitive effects on student achievement in traditional public schools.
Download or read book Academic Achievement of Georgia Charter Schools Compared to Traditional Public Schools written by Tahereh Seyedbagheri and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study evaluates the academic success of charter schools compared to the academic achievement of traditional public schools in the state of Georgia. The study introduces the history of charter schools in America and their impact on the American public education system in the years since the first charter school was launched in Minnesota in 1992. A detailed literature review contextualizes the debate over charter schools and their performance as compared to traditional public schools. The study conducts an evaluation utilizing the Framework for Academic Quality which is a tool specifically designed by the National Consensus panel on Charter School Academic Quality to evaluate and assess the performance of charter schools. The study addresses six research questions and adopts an ex post facto research design to conduct quantitative analysis. The collected data is analyzed and compared using a causal-comparative approach. For this study, data were collected from the Georgia Achievement test scores documented by the Georgia Department of Education. The data reported on the passing rates of Criterion Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) reading and math tests among 3rd and 5th graders during the study period did not seem to provide sufficient evidence to suggest any statistically significant difference between the academic performances of charter and public schools.
Download or read book Research Comparing Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools Literature Review written by Christie Blazer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 2008-09 school year, over 5,000 charter schools operated in 40 states and Washington, D.C. and were attended by over 1.5 million students, or about three percent of the nation's public school students. Although the first U.S. charter schools opened in 1992, debate continues over whether they provide students with a better education than traditional public schools. This Literature Review summarizes studies that compared the achievement of students attending charter and traditional public schools and found mixed results. Most studies have found that charter schools produce achievement gains that are about the same or lower than those found in traditional public schools, although a few studies have concluded that charter schools have a positive effect on student achievement. These inconsistent findings have led some researchers to conclude that the rapid growth of the charter school movement has significantly outpaced the evidence supporting its impact on student achievement. Because there is such wide variation from state to state in charter schools' mission, funding, student populations, size, grade level coverage, and independence from regulations and teacher contracts, there may never be a single definitive study that determines if charter or traditional public schools provide students with better learning opportunities. In addition to reviewing studies conducted on overall charter school performance, this report summarizes research that examined the following issues: student achievement at new versus more established charter schools; student achievement at conversion versus start-up charter schools; student mobility at charter schools; charter school teacher attrition rates and qualifications; demographic characteristics of students attending charter schools; extent of segregation in charter schools; and the impact of charter school competition on the achievement of students remaining in traditional public schools. Finally, information on charter schools operating within the state of Florida and in Miami-Dade County is provided. (Contains 4 tables.).
Download or read book Comparing the Academic Growth Among Black Students in Philadelphia s Black operated Charter Schools Non Black Operated Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools written by Cherryman Joseph and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ex post facto, causal-comparative quantitative study assessed the math and English language arts (ELA) 7th to 8th-grade academic growth among Black students enrolled in Philadelphia’s black-operated public charter schools, non-black operated charter schools, and traditional public schools while controlling for 6th-grade exam scores. Over 65 years after Brown versus Board of Education disallowed public school segregation, the academic achievement gap between Black and white students persists. Various parental and educational stakeholders have considered charter public schools as suitable educational alternatives for narrowing this academic gap. This condition along with an assertion by some community activists that Black leaders are best suited for educating Black children served as the impetus for this study. The sample included student scores (n = 463 for math and n= 506 for ELA) from the 2016 to 2019 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) exams. The researcher statistically assessed the data with a one-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and used the dynamic model of educational effectiveness to theoretically analyze the findings. There were no statistically significant differences in the academic growth among Black students in the three types of schools. Further analysis of the data revealed that students in non-black operated charter schools had higher mean scores on the math and ELA exams than their counterparts. The continued failure of public schools to provide an equitable, quality education for many Black students should encourage further investigations into the possible effects of charter schools and Black leaders on academic performance.
Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of Student Achievement in Florida Charter and Non charter Public High Schools 2007 2009 written by Shannon R. Sommella and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to determine if any relationship existed between the change in developmental scale scores (DSS) on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) for reading and mathematics, in selected Florida school districts among charter and non-charter public high schools, for grades 9 and 10. This study also investigated if any relationship existed in student achievement based on student demographics (gender, economically disadvantaged, primary home language (ELL) and ethnicity), and examined if there was a difference in professional demographics of faculty (advanced degrees, teachers' average years of teaching experience, and percent of courses taught by out of field teachers gender), among charter and non-charter public high schools in the state of Florida. School data were analyzed from 234 charter and non-charter public high schools, within 15 districts across the state of Florida, for the years 2007-2009. The findings of this research suggest charter high schools in the state of Florida are not keeping the pace with their traditional public high school counterparts. Over a three year period, charter high schools had significantly lower developmental scale scores on the FCAT, in both reading and mathematics, than non-charter public high schools. The findings also suggest that student demographics, with respect to male gender, economically disadvantaged, and ELL, combined with charter school status, negatively impact student achievement as measured by DSS. The disparity noted with regard to faculty demographics between charter and non-charter public high schools, only touches on some considerable differences between the two school types; more information is needed on the variations so parents and students can make informed choices. For future research, replication of this study with an expanded sample size of charter schools and a longer period of time for data collection was recommended. Separate studies are recommended on the differences between charter and non-charter public schools with regard to instructional time, curriculum or grade levels offered, the differences between parent and student perceptions, and the differences between funding and principal background as it relates to student achievement.
Download or read book Quantitatively Comparing Academic Achievement in Secondary Charter and Public Schools Implementing Career Academies written by Timothy A. Meeks and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s publication "A Nation at Risk", policy makers have continually sought to improve America's education system by crafting education policies with strict guidelines. Recent policies like No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and now the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), are calling for increased accountability of school districts measured by standardized test scores. With the threat of losing funding and facing sanctions for failing to meet minimum College and Career Readiness Performance Index (CCRPI) requirements, school districts are continually looking for research-based strategies and reform models that promise to enhance student achievement. Researchers have examined various reform models and methods including schools-within-a-school, small learning communities, career academies, school choice, career pathways, and charter schools. Some studies have displayed successful increases in student achievement as a result of implementing these reforms individually. However, the results have not proven to be entirely reproducible as other researchers exhibit insignificant findings. This casual-comparative design compared career academy charter schools to traditional public schools that had implemented career academies. The independent variable was school type-charter school and public school. The dependent variables were Georgia End-of-Course Test scores in the areas of English Language Arts, math, and science. Using ANOVA analysis, significant findings on one out of three measures indicated that implementing career academies at charter schools increased student achievement in science more than the implementation at public schools. The implementation did not positively or negatively impact ELA scores or math. However, when grade level was incorporated as a covariate, ANCOVA analysis revealed that implementing career academies at public schools significantly impacted student achievement in math compared to the charter site. The analysis also revealed that as grade level increased, so did test scores. ANCOVA analysis of the science data indicated that career academy charter school students significantly outperformed the public school career academy students. However, no interaction effects were observed between grade level and test scores. ANCOVA did not impact the results in ELA.
Download or read book Charter Schools in Nassau County New York written by Tyshawn Scarlett and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of traditional public schools versus charter schools in serving low socioeconomic (low SES) communities in Nassau County. Results from the New York State Standardized Exams (Math and ELA) were used as a comparative measure between both school types serving high need students in that county. Data were collected from 2,250 eighth-graders enrolled in three (3) charter schools and six (6) public schools in Nassau County, NY in 2018-2019, and an Independent Samples t-test was employed to effect analysis. Results indicate that students in these charter schools outperformed public school students in terms of overall performance in math and ELA combined, t(16) = -3.517, p
Download or read book The Public School Advantage written by Christopher A. Lubienski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones. For decades research showing that students at private schools perform better than students at public ones has been used to promote the benefits of the private sector in education, including vouchers and charter schools—but much of these data are now nearly half a century old. Drawing on two recent, large-scale, and nationally representative databases, the Lubienskis show that any benefit seen in private school performance now is more than explained by demographics. Private schools have higher scores not because they are better institutions but because their students largely come from more privileged backgrounds that offer greater educational support. After correcting for demographics, the Lubienskis go on to show that gains in student achievement at public schools are at least as great and often greater than those at private ones. Even more surprising, they show that the very mechanism that market-based reformers champion—autonomy—may be the crucial factor that prevents private schools from performing better. Alternatively, those practices that these reformers castigate, such as teacher certification and professional reforms of curriculum and instruction, turn out to have a significant effect on school improvement. Despite our politics, we all agree on the fundamental fact: education deserves our utmost care. The Public School Advantage offers exactly that. By examining schools within the diversity of populations in which they actually operate, it provides not ideologies but facts. And the facts say it clearly: education is better off when provided for the public by the public.
Download or read book Charter School Outcomes written by Mark Berends and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice, a research consortium headed by Vanderbilt University, this volume examines the growth and outcomes of the charter school movement. Starting in 1992-93 when the nation’s first charter school was opened in Minneapolis, the movement has now spread to 40 states and the District of Columbia and by 2005-06 enrolled 1,040,536 students in 3,613 charter schools. The purpose of this volume is to help monitor this fast-growing movement by compiling, organizing and making available some of the most rigorous and policy-relevant research on K-12 charter schools. Key features of this important new book include: Expertise – The National Center on School Choice includes internationally known scholars from the following institutions: Harvard University, Brown University, Stanford University, Brookings Institution, National Bureau of Economic Research and Northwest Evaluation Association. Cross-Disciplinary – The volume brings together material from related disciplines and methodologies that are associated with the individual and systemic effects of charter schools. Coherent Structure – Each section begins with a lengthy introduction that summarizes the themes and major findings of that section. A summarizing chapter by Mark Schneider, the Commissioner of the National Center on Educational Statistics, concludes the book. This volume is appropriate for researchers, instructors and graduate students in education policy programs and in political science and economics, as well as in-service administrators, policy makers, and providers.
