Sentences with phrase «international measures of student achievement»

The National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, two nonprofit coalitions, developed the Common Core out of a concern that the United States was falling behind on international measures of student achievement and stagnating on its own benchmarks of success, like the National Assessment of Education Progress.

Not exact matches

The 2011 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) measured the reading achievement of 300 000 students in their fourth year of schooling across the participating countries.

While quantitative input measures show little impact, several measures of institutional structures and of the quality of the teaching force can account for significant portions of the immense international differences in the level and equity of student achievement.

For the United States, the research suggests, modest gains in student achievement as measured by one international assessment could cumulatively boost the country's gross domestic product by tens of trillions of dollars over the coming decades.

Previous work shows that higher levels of education quality (as measured by international student achievement tests) increases growth rates of national income.

By Stefan Johansson In a previous issue of Phi Delta Kappan, Yong Zhao (2012) urged readers to stop worrying so much about the relatively poor performance of American students on measures such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which compares the mathematics, science, and reading achievement of 15 - year - olds from dozens of countries (OECD, -LSB-...]