John Schacter
Stanford University
9 Papers
33 Citations
John Schacter is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Academic achievement & Summer vacation. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 9 publications. Previous affiliations of John Schacter include Milken Family Foundation.
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Papers
Paying for High- and Low-Quality Teaching.
John Schacter,Yeow Meng Thum +1 more
TL;DR: Hanushek et al. as discussed by the authors presented the argument that in order to improve teacher quality, one must focus on teacher performance and showed that teaching performance as defined by their standards and performance rubrics is highly predictive of student academic progress across elementary grades.
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How Much Does Creative Teaching Enhance Elementary School Students' Achievement?
TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between creative teaching and elementary students' achievement gains and found that the majority of teachers do not implement any teaching strategies that foster student creativity, while teachers who elicit student creativity turn out students that make substantial achievement gains.
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Learning when school is not in session: a reading summer day‐camp intervention to improve the achievement of exiting First‐Grade students who are economically disadvantaged
John Schacter,Booil Jo +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal randomised trial, a randomly assigned group of exiting First-Grade children who were economically disadvantaged was enrolled in a seven-week summer reading day camp.
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Improving low-income preschoolers mathematics achievement with Math Shelf, a preschool tablet computer curriculum
John Schacter,Booil Jo +1 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that teachers can significantly increase low-income preschoolers' mathematics knowledge in a relatively short amount of time by implementing evidenced-based tablet software.
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Math Shelf: A Randomized Trial of a Prekindergarten Tablet Number Sense Curriculum
TL;DR: Math Shelf, a tablet intervention designed to improve at-risk preschoolers' mathematics performance, was tested in a randomized controlled trial in a large urban Head Start center as mentioned in this paper.
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