[CaTEACH-SMI] GSOE Colloquium -- March 5, 2007
Leslie Bushong
leslie.bushong at ucr.edu
Wed Feb 28 10:37:17 PST 2007
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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