Sentences with phrase «reporting on the student achievement»

Context is a major issue in the AFT's reporting on student achievement as well.

ITP faculty and staff continue to conduct research on new testing initiatives and develop new approaches to assessment and reporting on student achievement.

State - of - the art Item Response Theory research methods to report on student achievement and document growth.

States use a mixture of commercially developed, off - the - shelf standardized tests, and their own — home - grown — assessments to measure and report on student achievement:

In Edison's own reports on student achievement, the numbers of students reflected in the trends they present are not reported.

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Dr. Pope's org Challenge Success, which used more than twenty studies on homework for its papers, found similar results, reporting,» [I] n a recent study comparing the standardized math scores across multiple countries, no positive link was found between student math achievement and the frequency or amount of homework given (Baker & LeTendre, 2005).

Coleman Report had concluded that «schools are remarkably similar in the effect they have on the achievement of their pupils when the socio - economic background of the students is taken into account.»

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language iAchievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language iachievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

The state was prepared to use part of its federal Race to the Top money to pay Wireless Generation to develop software to track student test scores, achievement and so on, creating a system similar to the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System, or ARIS, that it developed for the ciachievement and so on, creating a system similar to the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System, or ARIS, that it developed for the ciAchievement Reporting and Innovation System, or ARIS, that it developed for the city schools.

The first student achievement results and reports on curricula in many other countries will be released in November.

Being taught from a syllabus that's «a mile wide and an inch deep,» the report states, could be one reason why U.S. students do relatively poorly on international achievement tests.

Students» self - reported emotions were measured by questionnaires, and their achievement was assessed by year - end grades and scores on a math achievement test.

A new report from the Royal Society on improving U.K. science and mathematics education contains a lengthy wish list: Upper - level students should take a lot more science and math; more college graduates with science degrees should go into teaching; current teachers should continually upgrade their skills and have a larger voice in the educational process; and the government should de-emphasize the high - stakes tests used to measure student achievement.

The achievement is reported today in an article on the cover of Nature Magazine written by Max Shulaker and other doctoral students in electrical engineering.

The percentage of 12th graders taking courses in biology, chemistry, and physics since 8th grade increased to 41 % in 2015 from 34 % in 2009, said Mary Koppal, Project 2061's communications director, citing the most recent results for science from the National Assessment of Education Progress, which serves as a national report card on student achievement.

Hanushek's analysis also examines and updates the Coleman Report's conclusions on how family background and school resources influence student achievement.

Nonetheless, NCLB offered some positive changes that the new ESSA maintains, including academic standards, annual assessments of reading and math achievement, and report cards on schools that students, parents and the public can use to gauge results.

Turning Points 2000: A Blueprint For Middle Grades Education Reform A new report by the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans advises that groups need to work together to help Hispanic students close the achievement gap with students of other ethnic groups.

The landmark 1966 Coleman Report highlighted the importance of peer environment along a number of dimensions, but work by Caroline Hoxby and Gretchen Weingarth in 2006 suggests that the share of poor students has only a modest effect on achievement once differences in the prior achievement of students have been accounted for.

Agreement between school boards and superintendents over achievement goals, an emphasis on the lowest - performing students, and the adoption of districtwide curricula are among the most successful strategies being used in four urban school districts, concludes a report released last week.

Charting the Path from Engagement to Achievement: A Report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement.

Literacy achievements of Australia's Year 4 students has improved on average, according to a new report from the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), but not for students with the lowest literacy skills.

Quality Counts 2006, like the nine previous editions of the report, tracks key education information and grades states on their policies related to student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and resources.

Last month, Teacher reported on a study published about the link between school mobile phone bans and student achievement.

In March 1996, the nation's governors met in Palisades, N.Y., and called for an «external, independent, nongovernmental effort» to measure and report on each state's annual progress in raising student achievement and improving the public schools.

«Compared with their self - protective peers, selfless teachers saw significantly lower student achievement scores on standardized assessments at the end of the year,» the two reported.

I measure student achievement with a composite of grade - point average (GPA) based on student self - reports of their most recent grades in English, math, history / social studies, and science.

CASEL reports: «A landmark review found that students who receive SEL instruction had more positive attitudes about school and improved an average of 11 percentile points on standardized achievement tests compared to students who did not receive such instruction.»

The Coleman Report, released in the summer of 1966, found that the family backgrounds of the student body had a greater influence on student achievement than did school resources, and that «a pupil's achievement is strongly related to the educational backgrounds and aspirations of other students in the school.»

This report reviews 16 studies conducted in seven states; 103 of 112 comparisons show positive results in writing achievement favoring students in classrooms of NWP participants, based on grading by «blind» coders who did not know whether the author received NWP teaching.

The report by the Reston, Va. - based association — developed in collaboration with the Education Alliance at Brown University and a commission of middle school experts — is a follow - up to a 2004 NASSP report, «Breaking Ranks II,» which focused on student achievement in high school.

The «nation's report card» on student achievement will collect data that can be used to make state - by - state comparisons for the first time in 1990.

The call by some educators and policymakers for a back - to - basics approach to math and science to improve student achievement is based on a false assumption that curriculum and instruction have strayed from traditional roots, a new report argues.

Student achievement at schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as measured by scores on standardized tests is considerably lower than that of public schools, according to a report by the federal General Accounting Office.

On this week's Ed Next podcast, Marty West of Education Next talks with Anna Egalite, assistant professor of education at North Carolina State University and the author of «How Family Background Influences Student Achievement,» which appears in the Spring 2016 issue of the journal commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jim Coleman's landmark report.

When compared with such crude indicators, the combination of student achievement gains on state tests, student surveys, and classroom observations identified teachers with better outcomes on every measure we tested: state tests and supplemental tests as well as more subjective measures, such as student - reported effort and enjoyment in class.

A Maryland school district's curriculum and classroom assessments represent what teachers need to help students reach ambitious academic goals and succeed on state tests, concludes a report issued by a group pushing for greater student achievement.

Voice of Experience: Most Direct Route to Parents Is an E-Line Educator Max Fischer has been doing a little independent research on the effectiveness of phone calls, written progress reports, and e-mail in raising student achievement.

Perhaps the largest long - term impact of the Coleman Report has been its effect on elite opinion about the contribution schools make to student achievement.

But since the report's publication, scholars have developed more precise data on teacher effectiveness, and, by probing at differences in teacher quality within schools, have found very large impacts of teacher quality on student achievement.

The Commission, chaired by Dr. Paul Hill of the University of Washington, carefully reviewed the research on the impact of school choice on student achievement and included in its report the following statement: «The most rigorous school choice evaluations that used random assignment... found that academic gains from vouchers were largely limited to the African - American students in their studies.»

An analysis of National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS) data, the report goes on, indicates that the kind of mathematics courses students take in high school are more related to math achievement than is the type of high school students attend.

According to a recent study by the Center on Education Policy, 73 percent of states report improved student achievement.

Research on the effect of existing private school voucher programs has not shown significant achievements for students in those programs, the report asserts.

The report we produced, Putting Learning First: Governing and Managing the Schools for High Achievement, was the CED's fifth education study and the product of more than 10 years of ongoing research and vigorous debate by a committed group of business leaders on the most effective strategies for improving student aAchievement, was the CED's fifth education study and the product of more than 10 years of ongoing research and vigorous debate by a committed group of business leaders on the most effective strategies for improving student achievementachievement.

SCSF asked an independent research team to conduct an experimental evaluation of the impact of the intervention on student achievement and other outcomes, such as school climate and school quality, as reported by the students» parents or other guardians.

Never Judge a Book by Its Cover — Use Student Achievement Instead Brookings, 3/3/16 «An annual report on the effectiveness of textbooks would transform the market, by providing publishers and software developers with a stronger incentive to compete on quality.

The study, called «Report on the English as a Second Language Pro-gram, 1980 - 81,» found that achievement scores of elementary students enrolled in the esl program compare favorably to students in the district's regular program.

Like a driver overcorrecting and losing control, the new reports go from focusing almost exclusively on student achievement to making it one of seven areas of reporting.

The state publishes school report cards containing student - achievement data and assigns ratings to schools based, in part, on test scores.