Sentences with phrase «achievement at scale»

It's a strategic initiative to efficiently raise student achievement at scale.

By influencing district mindset and building an ELA curriculum that reflects the world outside the classroom, administrators can boost student achievement at scale and achieve ambitious literacy goals.

This expansion is a reflection of the growing recognition that improving school leadership is one of the most cost - efficient ways to improve student achievement at scale.

The Center's work, based on research and two decades of experience, focuses on K — 16 mathematics and science education with an emphasis on strategies for improving student engagement, motivation, persistence, and achievement at scale.

This advice applies in particular to networks of schools serving students who have the most barriers to achievement at scale.

Sometimes it seems as if we've tried everything in our efforts to reform public education, yet nothing has worked to boost student achievement at scale.

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report every five years to the Murray - Darling Basin Authority on the achievement of environmental outcomes at a Basin scale, by reference to the targets to measure progress towards the environmental objectives in Schedule 7 (Basin Plan Schedule 12, item 7).

Five - yearly reporting is required on the achievement of environmental outcomes at a Basin - scale.

I think the scale of Wenger's achievements at Arsenal can not be fully understood or appreciated at the current level of emotional hijack being experienced by many fans and pundits.

I believe that the successes we are having in Harlem are beginning to turn some heads in this country, and making people realize that things are not hopeless — that we adults can improve student achievement at a much - larger scale than we have been doing.

The hope, intuition or strategy at play here is that since fossil fuels can not deliver such a world, its achievement will, in itself, bring about decarbonisation on a massive scale.

Co-researcher Dr Mohsen Rahmani said the ANU team's achievement was a big milestone in the field of nanophotonics, which involves the study of behaviour of light and interaction of objects with light at the nano - scale.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

Though at first merely very boring, Dealin» With Idiots eventually begins to feel self - indulgent — which is a sort of perverse achievement, considering how modestly scaled and unambitious the movie is.

«The same NAPLAN achievement scale will be used, but students» achievements will be measured more precisely, particularly for students in the high - and low - achieving categories, and results will be returned much more quickly than at present.

Even leaving this concern aside and accepting the 0.08 of standard deviation achievement boost, Hanushek finds that «we are hard pressed to come up with any other education program working at (national scale) that has produced such results.»

They suggested that, rather than measuring academic achievement based on proficiency rates alone, states should either look at scale scores or some sort of an index providing partial credit for getting students to a basic level (and additional credit for getting students to an advanced one).

Contrary to the initial reaction of Shkreli on social media — he played down the achievements of the students arguing «learning synthesis isn't innovation» and «almost any drug can be made at small scale for a low price» — this was a tale of resilience and persistence.

My colleague Julia Freeland and I will have more to say about the importance of integrating backward in an interdependent way in schools in a few weeks in an important white paper that we're releasing on how schools can address the achievement gap at scale, but suffice to say, integrating in an interdependent way past one's supposed core competencies is a critical tool in any innovator's toolbox in certain circumstances.

It is a challenge in part because Uncommon wants to prove «not only are we able to close the achievement gap at scale, but also that we can do it on the public dollar» alone.

The new study offers the first evidence of growth mindset distribution and its relationship with achievement and student demographics that is available in the US at a large scale.

It says a large - scale voucher study would help determine whether giving public school students vouchers to pay for tuition at private schools can improve achievement, especially for students in poor, urban areas.

The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority's own Revised Curriculum Planning and Reporting Guidelines (2015) acknowledges the criticism of this reporting scale: «the use of the A — E scale, where C represents a «satisfactory» or «expected» level of achievement, does not sufficiently recognise student work at a high level».

There are 1.9 million more children in good or outstanding schools than in 2010, 9 out of 10 schools were given this rating at their last inspection and our recent rise up the international rankings for reading and literacy puts England's achievements on a global scale.

Even so, our analysis provides the most complete picture to date of the early effects on student achievement of a voucher program operating at scale.

He will discuss how school leaders and teachers can design learning environments to harness innovation toward personalization, access and equity at scale to unleash student engagement and dramatically improve student achievement.

In addition to submitting the Advanced Academic Programs Level IV Referral Form, parents or guardians should also supply if available the Gifted Behaviors Rating Scale with Commentary completed by the previous year's teacher (s), report cards for at least 1 1/2 years including teacher comments (if not included in the student's academic file already received by the local FCPS school), and achievement test results.

With 25 schools serving 12,500 students, Alliance is the largest charter school network in Los Angeles, larger than 75 % of all California school districts, and successfully closing the achievement gap at scale...

«Full - day pre-K is the cornerstone of the de Blasio administration's plan to transform public education in New York City... high - quality pre-K represents change at a scale that will raise achievement and reduce inequality across all communities.»

This research adds to evidence that the strategy to replace large high schools with smaller ones increased student achievement significantly and at great scale.

These firms believe that, using economies of scale as well as other tools that are more readily available to the private sector, they can build organizations that use time and resources more efficiently and effectively than public school districts, leading to higher student achievement at a similar cost.

I also expressed concern that test - score scales lack an essential property for comparing test - score gains: an interval of, say, 50 points at one point on the scale can not be assumed to represent the same achievement growth as a 50 - point interval elsewhere on the scale.

Other school characteristics associated with better student achievement included: more time spent on English instruction; teacher pay plans that were based on teachers» effectiveness at improving student achievement, principals» evaluations, or whether teachers took on additional duties, rather than traditional pay scales; an emphasis on academics in schools» mission statements; and a classroom policy of punishing or rewarding the smallest of student infractions.

The scale - up grants are aimed at practices, strategies or programs in which sponsors can show strong evidence of having a statistically significant effect on improving student achievement or growth.

Evidence is mixed at best about the impact of large - scale state and district testing programs on student achievement.

This is about taking student achievement to an entirely different level, and doing it at scale.»

As currently practiced, value - added assessment relies on a strong assumption about the scales used to measure student achievement, namely that these are interval scales, with equal - sized gains at all

They suggest that multiple grades be used, and at the very least performance reports should have two grades: one for achievement and one for growth on the A-F scale.

One of the few large - scale national studies of magnet schools found that magnet schools were more effective than traditional public schools, Catholic schools, and secular private schools at raising student achievement in reading and social studies.

The standard error of measurement at this achievement level was 15 scale score points.

It's curious that the draft K - 12 Common Core State Standards appear to be trying to do the exact opposite — i.e., raise standards rather than aim their standards at the bottom of the achievement scale.

Research suggests that leadership is second only to teacher quality among school influences on student learning, but more needs to be known about whether efforts to improve leadership pay off for student achievement and whether these efforts can achieve results at the scale of an entire district.

«There are a number of different strategies that we can take from the work that was done here to be able to scale collective impact across our district, and help us improve student achievement one building at a time,» Driver says.

Subject - matter achievement is reported in two ways — average scale scores and the percentages of students performing at achievement levels based on scale scores.

A focus on disaggregated gain scores would bare inequalities in achievement at all levels along the achievement scale.

She specializes in high - impact literacy, ELL achievement, 21st century learning, and leading effective job - embedded professional learning at scale.

We believe EIR will drive substantial and lasting improvements in student achievement by supporting the development, validation, and scale - up of successful innovations at the state and local levels.

For Tennessee's version of the value - added method to work properly, however, student test scores must be statistically converted to a special kind of analytic scale so that student achievement gains in particular content areas represent the same amount of growth at different grade levels.

This case study is a follow up to our previous Great Principals at Scale report, and it highlights Gwinnett's approach to creating an intentionally systemic school leadership strategy to improve schools and raise student achievement.

Mean ELA scaled scores for ELs in these schools range from 2,307 to 2,396 (out of 2,663 possible points) at the lowest achievement level («Standard Not Met»).