Sentences with phrase «affect test performance»

Using Massachusetts data, the author compares how absences affect the test performance of particular grades within specific schools, and how they affect the test performance of individual students as they progress through different grades.

A reference to this stereotype, even one as subtle as taking the test in a room of mostly men, can adversely affect her test performance.

Identified issues adversely affecting test performance or reporting.

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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.»

Does Group vs. Individual Administration Affect Baseline Neurocognitive Test Performance?

Since good behavior in schools generally translates to more time teaching and more time on task, cutting or reducing recess time could affect everything from test performance, to grades, to academic progress.

While counselors might have to spend a lot of time focusing on individual education plans, testing, and other educational issues, school personnel should also be available to talk with children about emotional issues that affect their performance and demeanor at school.

These findings build on recent research by Cotner and Ballen that showed that on average, women's exam performance is adversely affected by test anxiety.

«Past research has found a link between violent crimes and performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime affects academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.

However until now internal temperature testing (and gaining data on each electrode's potential) in a battery has proved either impossible or impractical without significantly affecting the batteries performance.

The results highlight just how crucial it is for older adults, as well clinicians, to be aware of how ageist beliefs about older adults can affect older adults» real memory test performance.

Later this year, the team will explore in more detail how light, noise and temperature affect employee performance, as measured by tests of executive function and productivity, surveys of perceived productivity and physiological measures.

Remarkably, stimulating these neurons during social dominance tests one day affected the mice's performance — without any stimulation — the next day; mice receiving more than six photostimulated wins all maintained their new rank, whereas most mice receiving fewer than five photostimulated wins returned to their original rank, the authors report.

«It didn't affect their IQ at all; it affected their performance on an IQ test,» says Bob Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard University.

In experiments with porcine eyes they tested how their lab - isolated mucins affected the performance of contact lenses.

For example, athletes might have different levels of experience with the fitness tests used in the assessment, and that could affect the performance.

Similarly, another study in male athletes found that sexual activity didn't affect performance on a cycle stress test.

The researchers then set up six different controlled experiments designed to test how these beliefs might affect performance on a variety of physical and mental tests.

New teacher evaluations were rolled out alongside the Common Core State Standards and related exams, leaving teachers concerned about how the harder tests will affect their performance evaluations in the future.

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

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

Schools with large minority populations would be affected disproportionately if future tests lead to similar performance gaps.

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.

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.

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.

Several factors affect poor children's academic performances, and more money doesn't always close the gap between their test scores and the scores of their white, middle class counterparts, Neill told Education World.

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.

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.

Neurologist, teacher, author and Edutopia blogger 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.

The initial phase of research, undertaken in 2012, investigated how the test delivery mode (paper vs. computer) affected student performance in and engagement with the current NAPLAN tests.

Using data from the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment, a benchmarking test of 15 - year - olds in 33 countries, researchers led by Margriet van Hek, a sociologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, looked at how school characteristics affected boys» and girls» reading performance.

In «Good News for New Orleans,» Harris summarizes research conducted with ERA analyst Matthew Larsen, that uses two complementary strategies to determine how the reforms affected student performance on state tests.

The study distinguishes the persistent effects that teachers have in their own subject — English teachers on students» later English test performance and math teachers on students» later math test performance — from cross-subject effects in which English teachers in one year can affect math performance in subsequent years and math teachers in one year can affect math performance in a subsequent year.

That is, good English teachers — those with the greatest long - run effect on students — affect not only test performance in English but also behaviors such as skipping school.

English teachers have important effects that go far beyond test performance and affect not only behaviors such as attendance and successful course completion but also test performance in other subject areas such as math.

The article, «Incentive Pay Programs Do Not Affect Teacher Motivation or Reported Practices: Results From Three Randomized Studies,» looked at three schools that were testing pay - for - performance programs.

And as a school official initially told The Lens in June, they cheated on internal tests that carried weight with an independent philanthropy, although that did not affect the school's performance on Louisiana's report card.

Errors in test scores that result from parts of the test that are not relevant to the content being measured and that differentially affect the performance of different groups of test takers.

When looking at the data, a teacher might want to look to see if any notes were documented that would suggest that the test administration was not done correctly, or that environmental factors may have affected her performance.

Teacher unions have opposed linking test scores to teacher evaluations, given all the variables that affect a student's performance.

Although the use of test scores remains the most controversial piece of the evaluations, it remains to be seen how the main portion of the evaluations, which are based on intensive, time - consuming qualitative measures of a teacher's performance, will affect schools and classrooms.

«Teaching to the Test» in the NCLb Era: How Test Predictability Affects Our Understanding of Student Performance

Critics of merit pay say that it is unsupported by research, and that evaluating an individual teacher's performance based on student standardized testing is extremely difficult, given the many factors outside the classroom that can affect student achievement.

This law has been in affect for many years, long before the Legislature started grading schools based on test performance.

He does not remember what he scored, but his performance on the test he took during his junior year of high school could affect his pay as a teacher next year.

In my interview with Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary - General at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, we discussed the cycle of poor student performance in at - risk communities, the key characteristics of schools that affect the level of performance, how government policy can support students, and the relevance of the PISA test in a changing education environment.

Interim assessments are often required at the district level to address potential gaps that will affect student performance on the summative tests, and formative assessments include a wide array of test typically administered at the classroom level.

They are a collection of proctored tests that measure the most important workplace skills affecting an individual's job performance.