[CaTEACH-SMI] GSOE Colloquium -- March 5, 2007

[Leslie Bushong]

Graduate School of Education

Invites you to attend a colloquium by

Cassandra Guarino, Ph.D.
Economist
RAND, Santa Monica

“The Impact of Poor Health on the Mathematics Achievement of Young Children”

Monday, March 5, 2007
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Sproul Hall 1215
(Education Conference Room)

Current accountability policies, such as No Child 
Left Behind, place great emphasis on academic 
performance measured by test scores.  Factors 
influencing test scores­health conditions among 
these­must be understood to create effective 
policies.  The effect of health impairments has 
been relatively under-researched, however, due to 
the paucity of data that include detailed 
measures of both health and school performance 
over time.  This study examines the impact of low 
birth weight and health conditions, such as 
vision, speech, hearing, learning disabilities, 
and obesity on the mathematics achievement of 
young children.  The study uses the Early 
Childhood Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Class 
of 1998-99, a nationally representative sample of 
kindergartners who are followed through fifth 
grade, to assess health effects.  Various models 
are compared with a baseline specification to 
check the validity of different modeling 
assumptions and to assess the ability of 
families, teachers, and schools to mitigate negative health effects.



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Leslie Bushong
Staff Director
California Teach-Science/Mathematics Initiative (CaTEACH-SMI)
1104 Pierce Hall
University of California, Riverside
voice: (951) 827-4970
fax: (951) 827-4971
website: http://smi.ucr.edu



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