Sentences with phrase «affect student test»

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Their conclusion: «In healthy young students, caffeine improves memory performance and sensorimotor speed, whereas SPRINT does not affect the cognitive performance at the dose tested.»

Thuy - vy Nguyen, a doctoral student at the University of Rochester, and her team designed four experiments to test how solitude affected emotional states.

The testing requirements affect roughly 1,500 students at the school, about half of the student body.

The State Education Department's grades 3 - 8 assessment vendor, Questar Assessment, Inc., experienced a data breach affecting a small number of students registered for computer - based testing (CBT) in spring 2017, Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced today.

In the last days of the 2014 legislative session, Cuomo negotiated with New York State United Teachers for a temporary solution, introduced a program bill creating a «safety net» for educators whose ratings were detrimentally affected by students» low Common Core test scores and advanced the legislation with a «message of necessity,» allowing lawmakers to pass it before gaveling out for the summer.

The unions» petition follows their aggressive push for a three - year moratorium on using tests aligned to the rigorous Common Core standards for «high stakes» decisions affecting teachers and students.

The petition comes as the union continues to call for a three - year moratorium on using tests aligned to the rigorous Common Core standards for «high stakes» decisions affecting teachers and students.

The effort comes even though the tests don't affect students» records and a moratorium was agreed to last year on Gov. Cuomo's attempt to tie the results to a teacher evaluation system.

Tune into WBFO 88.7 FM Wednesday to hear how Common Core affects testing and how those tests affect teachers, parents, and students.

The organization aims to reduce or eliminate the use of high stakes testing, increase teacher autonomy in the classroom and work to include teacher and family voices in legislative decision - making processes that affect students.

Consider how unfamiliar vocabulary, test - wiseness, or other factors can affect the accuracy of an item as a measure of what students know.

They generated daily activity profiles for 14, 894 university students, and found only 40 per cent of them had body clocks Read more about Early starts for night owls could affect test scores - Scimex

«Our findings reveal a critical role for telomere length in a mouse model of age - dependent human disease,» said first author Christina Theodoris, an MD / PhD student in the laboratory of Deepak Srivastava, MD. «This model provides a unique opportunity to dissect the mechanisms by which telomeres affect age - dependent disease and also a system to test novel therapeutics for aortic valve disease.»

According to her theory, wearing superhero clothing was supposed to affect the frame of mind of the person, and decided to put her theory to a test, asking her students to wear superhero clothing with their pears.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

We do so by examining how the test - based accountability system introduced in Texas in 1993 affected students» college enrollment and completion rates and their earnings as adults.

The survey found mental disorders affected one in seven students in the previous 12 months and students with mental disorders scored lower on average than students without mental disorders in every test domain and year level.

There are also reasons to believe that subjective retention policies affect students differently than policies that use promotion criteria like performance on standardized tests.

Studies are resounding: robust family engagement in schools positively affects student growth, improves test scores, and enhances the overall vibrancy and success of a school.

Because the state has not yet identified students for retention, the test scores of students the first time they are in the 3rd grade are not affected by any change in the student cohort resulting from the retention policy.

He used data from Wake County, North Carolina, to study how start times affect the performance of middle school students on standardized tests.

This teacher ability to affect student character skills in not related to their ability to improve math and reading test performance.

Third - grade students were not affected, and 6th - grade students were negatively affected by the policy in their performance on the ITBS reading test.

These annual volumes make assertions about empirical facts («students» scores on the state tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).

If elementary students are not affected by later start times, as my data suggest (albeit not definitively), it may be possible to increase test scores for middle school students at no cost by having elementary schools start first.

Though each of these policies has been tied to student test - score improvements, either the effect size was too small or the policy affected too few students to alone account for the substantial test - score improvements seen on the NAEP and FCAT.

In this study, I use data from Wake County, North Carolina, to examine how start times affect the performance of middle school students on standardized tests.

Since the state department of education not only designs tests but constructs numerous other policies that affect operations both in New York City and elsewhere in the state, it is of interest to learn whether New York City students do as well or better than students across the rest of the State of New York.

I explain that 25 years of research has shown that score inflation is common, that it is often very large, and that the limited research on its distribution suggests that both inflation and bad test preparation affect disadvantaged students more than others.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the opposite phenomenon occurred: students switching from traditional public to charter schools appear to have been above - average performers compared with the other students in their school.

To test the sensitivity of our results to this methodological decision, we constructed a value - added indicator that measures a teacher's contribution to student achievement (accounting for a wide variety of student and classroom characteristics that could affect achievement independent of the teacher's ability).

Adjusting for many other factors that can affect student performance, Chingos compares changes in the rate of gain in student test performance in school districts that were forced to reduce class size with changes in the rate of gain in other districts that could spend the funds as they saw fit.

«Many people assume teacher unions adversely affect students» performance, but this assumption hasn't, for the most part, been tested.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the

Finally, although the lion's share of teacher - quality research since the Coleman Report has focused on the connections between teacher quality and student test scores, new evidence is shining a light on the extent to which teachers affect other long - term non-test student outcomes as well.

Neurologist, teacher, and author Judy Willis explains how students» performance on tests can often be affected by their perceptions of and feelings about why they're being tested and what's being assessed.

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To the extent that the most important staffing decisions involve sanctioning incompetent teachers and rewarding the very best teachers, a principal - based assessment system may affect achievement as positively as a merit - pay system based solely on student test results.

This is important to know because research has shown that teachers» aptitude, as measured by scores on standardized tests, significantly affects student achievement.

The demands of ever - greater accountability, smaller budgets, the growing testing culture and monitoring — as well as spiralling workload in schools, is clearly affecting the wellbeing of many students and staff alike.

A growing body of literature suggests that outcomes such as test scores, attendance, and suspension rates are affected by the demographic match between teachers and students.

While it is not the frequency of testing that affects student wellbeing, students» perception of tests as threatening has a clear influence on how anxious students feel about tests.

Over two - thirds of the teachers said that the state assessment affected their instruction, even when students in their grades were not tested.

The students» struggles with grammar affected their performances on standardized tests and ultimately led to them being penalized by American policies like No Child Left Behind, she said.

Measuring Up, the new book by Professor Dan Koretz, gets beneath the surface of educational testing by taking a deep look at key issues that affect students» scores.

Caroline Hoxby's Research essay «The Power of Peers» is a creative test of the widely accepted proposition that students» peers affect how much they learn.

In the world of education the Uncertainty Principle could mean that due to these uncertainty relations the act of observation (or a standardised test) affects the quality of the object (student learning) of education.

This is because the institutions within a country do not vary enough to test how different institutions affect student achievement.

Officials at the Department of Education's office for civil rights have expanded a controversial draft guide outlining the proper use of high - stakes tests in an effort to better detail the legal principles involved and ways in which such issues will affect students.

She says, «Whether they like to admit it or not, college prep schools often are greatly affected by AP exam scores, SAT test scores, and the number of students they can place in prestigious universities.»