Sentences with phrase «academic performance using»

We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village - based schools on children's academic performance using a sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan.

We conduct a randomized evaluation of community - based schools on children's academic performance using a sample of 31 villages and over 1,500 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan.

Know how to use data to improve student academic performance using conceptual tools and processes for decision - making.

This presentation examines the number of years it takes ELLs to reclassify as former ELLs, and then examines their academic performance using new data from the Washington Achievement Index.

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His 2010 study found that students using goal - setting practices involving writing saw a significant improvement in academic performance.

Other academics have found that using benchmarked peer data results in a 17 % structural year - over-year increase in CEO pay, unrelated to his or her actual performance.

(To gauge if a hire is successful, academics use measures like the dollar value of an employee's contribution to the company, his or her relative share in overall output, and later performance reviews, promotions, and raises.)

According to an article published by the American Journal of Play, the use of adult coloring books (or play in general) can improve career and academic success, reduce stress and encourage an innovative work performance.

Fitza's research builds on (and subverts) a large body of academic work connecting CEO performance to company performance — using return on assets as the metric of the latter.

When I overheard a troubling conversation at a recent dinner about a child's academic performance, it reminded me about the importance of the words we use when speaking with our kids.

When I overheard a troubling conversation at a recent dinner about a child's academic performance, it reminded me about the importance of the words we use when speaking w...

In recent years we've heard that gathering regularly for a family dinner has all kinds of beneficial effects on our children, from improved academic performance to a lower incidence of drug use.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

When children come from homes where there is abuse, domestic violence, an incarcerated parent, or a parent with drug or mental health problems, they don't get that kind of attention and suffer the consequences: higher risks of later - life depression, adolescent pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, and poor academic performance.

This food tends to fall into three categories: food brought in for classroom celebrations; the use of food by teachers as a teaching tool or manipulative; and food handed out by teachers or principals as a reward for good behavior or academic performance.

Neurofeedback, art therapy and music therapy are two types of feedback approaches used to help increase children's attention and academic performance.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

A new set of online tools are being used to measure academic performance.

When the team used other questionnaires to assess whether these changes benefited aspects of the students» wider lives, they found moderate improvements in their academic performance, feelings of anxiety, and well - being.

Using this elegant technological fix, they achieved some of the highest density, highest performance CNTs ever made — especially given that they did this in an academic lab with less sophisticated equipment than a commercial fabrication plant.

To resolve this, the researchers conducted so - called meta - analyses: From relevant databases of scientific publications, they identified 59 studies that tackled the correlation between social media use and academic performance.

Academic research supports them as a way to increase physical activity at work Thinking abilities only drop slightly when using one, but not below average performance marks Sitting at a desk all day could be shaving years off your life A neuroscience professor at a research institution is getting one after studying them

«Some misusers may be pressured to use a friend's prescription if they believe it will improve academic performance, which is not likely if combined with alcohol or other drugs.

«Adolescent alcohol, marijuana use leads to poor academic performance, health problems.»

In another study, using four data sets with sample sizes in the thousands, a team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota psychologist Paul Sackett investigated the relationship between cognitive ability and both academic and work performance.

In academic contexts, some universities are already trying to curb the off - label use of prescription drugs to enhance academic performance, with Duke University explicitly considering such use as «cheating.»

Examining this teaching framework, used in an elementary school, a high school, and a community college, the documentary highlights research and results from leading neurocognitive experts, and how this framework can greatly increase academic performance.

The authors also offer one recommendation to the Department of Education, which is finalizing its ESSA regulations: Going forward, Washington should allow states to rate academic achievement using a performance index that gives schools additional credit for getting students to an advanced level.

Using methodology developed with Ed School Lecturer Terrence Tivnan, he compared the «academic rating» that admissions officers assign to applicants (a combination of grades, test scores, teacher recommendations, etc.) with their actual academic performance once they enrolled at Middlebury.

Plans will be put in place to encourage pupils to study more academic GCSE qualifications by using performance tables that will monitor schools who fail to enrol pupils in English baccalaureate subjects.

Specifically, they agreed to develop academic standards and assessments in every state and to expand the use of information technology as a way to improve student performance and aid in the measurement of student achievement.

Here is how eLearning can minimize its negative effects on academic performance, and maybe even use the prophecy to its own advantage.

We also used new data to see whether the academic performance of students in traditional public schools and the influence of teachers unions affect the strength of charter school legislation in a state.

That body doesn't micromanage the school; instead, it monitors academic performance, governance, and the use of public funds.

When used with self - assessment and peer - assessment strategies, rubrics can improve writing and critical - thinking skills and support engagement and academic performance in a range of subjects (Andrade, 2007; Andrade, Du, & Mycek, 2010; Andrade, Du, & Wang, 2008; Andrade & Valtcheva, 2009).

The assessment will continue to use performance standards — basic, proficient, and advanced — and a mix of multiple - choice and open - response test items in assessing the academic achievement of U.S. students.

It improves the academic performance of the low - income, mostly minority students who use scholarships to attend private schools, and also that of their peers who stay in the public schools.

To begin tackling this problem, CMU backward - mapped from the ACT's definition of college readiness to establish grade - level achievement targets for grades 2 — 8 that can be used with Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) or the Performance Series by Global Scholar.

In this week's EdNext podcast, Marty West of EdNext talks with Greg Toppo about academic games and James Coleman's idea that they could be used to increase motivation and academic performance among teens.

Several principals who use PBIS told Education World that they were elated to see that when student behavior improved under the system and teachers had more time to focus on instruction, academic performance shot up as well.

As outlined in the iNACOL Quality Assurance Performance Metrics, states, authorizers, and researchers should adopt more accurate measures of individual growth, such as the pre - and post-assessment measures typically used by national online learning support organizations (for example, the Measures of Academic Progress [MAP] or the equivalent).

In New York state, we have moved from an essentially academic approach to a system that we'll put in place in a few years based on performance assessment [including] value - added requirements, as well as the use of video and attached rubrics, that focus on the practice of teaching.

Here with the Web is the way for America to use the marvels it created to end the regression in our competitive and academic performance.»

Rather than purely basing performance on grades and academic performance, the use of a work board related activity can help to create an atmosphere of healthy competition where students can benefit from recognition and reward then and there.

With the help of mentors at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institue of Technology, and thanks to the loan of hardware from Microsoft, Bick conducted a study called «The Impact of Personal Digital Assistants on Academic Achievement,» in which he investigated the correlation between the use of Microsoft Pocket PCs and the academic performance of Millburn freshmen and sophomores over the course of fiveAcademic Achievement,» in which he investigated the correlation between the use of Microsoft Pocket PCs and the academic performance of Millburn freshmen and sophomores over the course of fiveacademic performance of Millburn freshmen and sophomores over the course of five months.

Much research has been done on the battle between pen and paper versus the keyboard: Some research shows a positive effect on (academic) performance when students use pen and paper.

The possibility that there is a causal relationship between voucher enrollment and academic performance can not be evaluated using the data in the WSJ story.

Using students» test scores as one part of evaluations for teachers, principals, and superintendents is associated with better academic performance at schools serving the middle grades, a report released this week has found.

Here we use the data from all three cities to analyze the one - and two - year effects on academic performance of switching from a public to a private school.

Mackinac uses a regression analysis accounting for the socioeconomic status of a school's students to predict academic performance, and grades schools by comparing the school's actual results to its predicted performance.