Sentences with phrase «pairs of students measured»

Not exact matches

The researchers tracked down pairs of students in public spaces — the student union or the cafeteria — and asked them to fill out a questionnaire designed to measure a wide swath of social attitudes, behaviors and values that might matter in a friendship.

It's easy to get entirely creeped out in the twin festival's «research» enclosure watching an identical pair of slim brunettes postpone taking a bite of their identical clouds of cotton candy until students from the Ohio State University College of Dentists have finished measuring their gums.

Two other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of students within a grade and subject in a school.

CAPE Educator Director, Scott Sikkema, describes our new understanding of how a teacher's dedication to arts integration practices like professional development, documentation, and teaching artist collaboration, the better their students performed on all areas measured by the PAIR project.

Many teachers, including the 1,000 plus members of Educators 4 Excellence - Los Angeles, support using this data as long as it's paired with other measures like classroom observations, peer reviews and student surveys.

By requiring the states to set high standards, pairing them with assessments that measured whether students were achieving those standards, and holding schools accountable if students failed to do so, NCLB, in the eyes of its sponsors, would close achievement gaps and make America's schools the envy of the world.

Throughout three years of project implementation, PAIR researchers collected and analyzed data drawn from randomized classroom cohorts that resulted in seven different types of teacher professional development (PD) variables and four different measures of student learning.

The measure compares the median of a student's progress against comparable children statewide, and pairs that progress — or lack of it — to a specific teacher.