Associated white paper: Evaluating the relationships between poverty and school performance¶

Element · All elements
Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 associational), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description¶

A white paper listed on the page as associated research for the webinar, titled "Evaluating the relationships between poverty and school performance". The page categorizes it as a White paper under Associated Research, indicating that the webinar's analysis of poverty and school performance is documented in greater depth in that companion publication. No author, date, or findings for the white paper are printed in the supplied text.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Retrieval of the associated white paper from the NWEA publications listing

Constraints¶

• The supplied page prints only the title and type of the white paper; no content, authors, or date for it are given

Target Learners¶

• School and district leaders
• Education researchers

Target Learning Goals¶

• Evaluating how poverty relates to school performance

Claims¶

• School poverty is only weakly associated with median student growth in a school [+W]
• Heavy weighting of achievement data in U.S. school evaluation clouds how much learning is actually occurring, particularly in high-poverty communities [+W]

Related Elements¶

• Nwea Webinar Poverty School Performance Element
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• NWEA research brief on English Language Learners, self-efficacy, and the achievement gap

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Hegedus, A. (2019). Relationships between poverty and school performance. NWEA. https://www.nwea.org/resources/relationships-between-poverty-and-school-performance/