Factors Influencing Eighth Grade Math ISAT Passing Percentages in Northeast Illinois Schools by John Tomczak
Illinois’ high-stakes math testing is all about making the grade.
As teachers, administrators, and policy makers, we are responsible for maximizing our students’ math achievement.
If we don’t use research-based ways to maximize math achievement, test scores will plateau and schools won’t meet the federal mandate in 2014.
We want our students to continually improve and our schools to meet the NCLB mandate.
Explore with me the learning environment factors and their influence on math achievement.
I began by examination of ISBE Report Cards to identify learning environment factors.
Some learning environment factors chosen were classified as controllable factors.
Controllable factors are factors that school districts can exert some control over.
Controllable factors are independent variables in this linear regression analysis.
Nine controllable factors were selected to be included in this study.
Some learning environment factors chosen were classified as non-controllable factors.
Non-controllable factors are factors that school districts have no control over.
Non-controllable factors are independent variables in this linear regression analysis.
Nine non-controllable factors were selected to be included in this study.
The scope of this study was determined.
The scope included eighth grade students only.
Students in the northeastern Illinois counties of Cook (excluding Chicago Public Schools), DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will were used in this study.
The study focused on student passing percentages on the math portion of the ISAT test (this is the dependent variable of this study).
Learning environment factors were analyzed to identify factors that improved math achievement.
The controllable learning environment factors were analyzed for key factors.
The controllable factors selected for analysis were:
Pupil-to-teacher ratio Average class size Minutes of math per day Percentage of male teachers Teachers' average years of experience
Percent of teachers with M.A.s or higher Average teachers' salary Average Administrators' Salary 2005 Expenditure per student on instruction
Multiple linear regression analysis showed four controllable factors had no influence on the math passing percentage and these were eliminated. Percentage of male teachers Teachers' average years of experience Average teachers' salary 2005 Expenditure per student on instruction
Multiple linear regression analysis showed that five controllable factors have some influence on the math passing percentage. Pupil-to-teacher ratio Average class size Minutes of math per day Percentage of teachers with M.A.s or higher Average administrator salary
The non-controllable learning environment factors were analyzed for key factors.
The non-controllable factors selected for analysis were:
Percentage of white students Percentage of black students Percentage of Hispanic students Percentage of Asian students
Percentage of native students Percentage of multiracial students Percentage of low income students Mobility rate (percentage) Attendance rate (percentage)
Multiple linear regression analysis showed four non-controllable factors had no influence on math passing percentage and these were eliminated. Percentage of white students Percentage of Asian students Percentage of native students Percentage of multiracial students
Multiple linear regression analysis showed that five non-controllable factors have some influence on the math passing percentage. Percentage of black students Percentage of Hispanic students Percentage of low-income students Student mobility rate Student attendance rate
The controllable and non-controllable learning environment factors were combined and analyzed for key factors.
Multiple linear regression analysis was used on the combined controllable and non-controllable learning environment factors.
Multiple linear regression analysis showed these nine controllable and non-controllable factors had no influence on math passing percentage. Average class size Minutes of math per day Teachers with M.A.s or higher Average administrator salary
Percentage of black students Percentage of Hispanic students Percentage of lowincome students Student mobility rate Student attendance rate
Multiple linear regression analysis showed that Pupil-to-Teacher Ratio was the singular key factor linked to eighth grade math ISAT passing percentage.
Now we need strategies for using this key factor to improve math achievement.
How can colleges and universities help middle schools decrease their Pupil-to-Teacher Ratios?
How can high schools help middle schools decrease their Pupil-to-Teacher Ratios?
High school chapters of Future Teachers of America can provide help in math classrooms.
High school chapters of Future Educators of America can provide help in math classrooms.
Cooperative education, work-experience, internships, and other teaching introduction programs can provide help in math classrooms.
How can communities help middle schools decrease their Pupil-to-Teacher Ratios?
Retired teachers’ association can provide help in math classrooms.
Retired professionals’ organizations can provide help in math classrooms.
Part-time and stay-at-home parents with math backgrounds can help in math classrooms.
we are responsible for maximizing. our students' math achievement. Page 4 of 47. Thesis Presentation.pdf. Thesis Presentation.pdf. Open. Extract. Open with.
Jun 26, 2012 - system such as Solr or Xapian and to design a generic bridge ..... application server. ..... document types including HTML, PHP and PDF.
Jun 26, 2012 - Engine. Keywords. Document management, ranking, search, information ... Invenio is a comprehensive web-based free digital library software.
Some development activist, on the other hand, considered the ... Key-words: Swidden agriculture; Chepang; land-use change; environmental perception ...
... or by any means shall not be allowed without my written permission. Signature ... Potential applications for this research include mobile phones, audio production ...... [28] L.R. Rabiner and B. Gold, Theory and application of digital signal ...
Jul 6, 2017 - Furthermore, when applying random initialization, we could say a âwarmupâ period is required since all ..... that is, the worker will move back towards the central variable. Nevertheless, let us ... workers are not able to move, eve
Aug 30, 2011 - purposes, ranging from grit of maize as substitute of rice, for making porridge, local fermented beverage, and fodder for poultry and livestock. In both areas the fallow period however has been reduced from 5-10 years previously to 2-4
Mar 15, 2012 - hand, value-based or preferential choices, such as when deciding which laptop to buy ..... nism by applying small perturbations to the evidence and showing a larger .... of evidence integration these two models would be equally good ..
Professor of Computer Science and. Electrical and Computer Engineering. Carnegie Mellon University. Page 3 of 123. thesis-submitted.pdf. thesis-submitted.pdf.
Changes in major land-use(s) in Jogimara and Shaktikhar between ...... Angelsen, A., Larsen, H.O., Lund, J.F., Smith-Hall, C. and Wunder, S. (eds). 2011.
want to thank Adobe Inc. for also providing funding for my work and for their summer ...... formant discrimination,â Acoustics Research Letters Online, vol. 5, Apr.
Potential applications for this research include mobile phones, audio ...... selected as the best pitch estimator for use in the wind noise removal system. ..... outside a windy Seattle evening using a Roland Edirol R09 24-bit portable recorder.
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering ... work done at ERV implemented one of the proposed routing protocols and tested it in a simple ...
Routing Protocols in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks - ... This master thesis is also the last part of our Master of Science degree at Luleå University of Technology.
9 Jun 2011 - NW. Penedagandor in the Academic Year of 2010/2011; (2) the students who have high interest have better reading skill than those who have low interest at the eighth Graders of. MTs. ...... of deriving the exact meaning that an author int
Bearing in mind previous, I would like to express my deepest gratitude and ..... For this test, the satellite will be place inside the orbital deployer, or otherwise.
commercial and in-house tools for placement of standard-cell and gate-array ...... These steps involve creating two grids: a source grid and a target grid. .... our new problem is how we map back this warped grid to the original uniform grid.
Mar 15, 2012 - during these years by: AIG Foundation (Institute for International Education), Deci- sion Technology LTD, ELSE Research Centre (Nick Chater ...
There was a problem previewing this document. Retrying... Download. Connect more apps... Try one of the apps below to open or edit this item. Thesis ...
was discovered independently by C.S. Pierce (c. 1880) and H. M. ..... This partial proof is contained in a online tutorial of ...... New York: Pearson Education. [95]*.
Mar 15, 2012 - One advantage of the integrate-to-threshold principle is that, under specific ...... a: Connectionist network for decision field theory. b: Connectionist network ...... information integration in simple decisions is hard-wired or sub-.
Sep 25, 2015 - actual business logic and the need for native SQL is brought down to a minimum. This makes the ...... idProducerTransactionTimeout( 1800 ). 9.
only virtual. State and Atkin (1977) used CDC 6400 which also did not have 64-bit words. The use of 64 bits in nowadays computers becomes wider and wider.
... extended batch running features, data collection and graphical. features. ⢠Verify the previously published AH-HA results. ⢠Perform in depth, critical analysis of ...
