Sentences with phrase «analysis of student performance»

Careful diagnosis and analysis of student performance identifies what is working and what is not working to inform intervention instruction within the five components of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Beating the Odds: A City - By - City Analysis of Student Performance and Achievement Gap On State Assessments.

Evaluate academic achievement through detailed data analysis of student performance on a wide variety of metrics

While all those different data points might have once existed in a paper file somewhere, new software tools enable real - time data entry, cross-team collaboration, and deep analysis of student performance while in school.

Establish an Individual Professional Development Plan (IPDP) for each teacher that is, in part, based on an analysis of student performance data and results of prior evaluations.

There can be an increased focus on data analysis of student performance, but, ultimately, teachers must produce the results (Stronge, 2011).

In «Beating the Odds,» [a CGCS report that provides a city - by - city analysis of student performance and gaps in achievement] one of the findings is that the average per - pupil expenditure in the nation's largest urban school systems is now below the national average.

The council's Beating the Odds VI report, a city - by - city analysis of student performance, recently revealed that urban students» scores on state assessments in reading and math as well as on the more rigorous federal test — the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- are rising, with urban students making the most gains in mathematics.

And in the New York Times, Tulane University professor Doug Harris offered a critical analysis of student performance and charter oversight after «more than a decade of Ms. DeVos's getting her way on a host of statewide education policies.»

Additional results of the WIDE program included more collegial staff relationships, specific strategies for improving instruction, and systematic analysis of student performance data to inform instruction.

An analysis of student performance on the state's standardized science exam has repeatedly shown that our students do better on questions that relate to the project - learning curriculum.

The TSP provided student data for analyses of student performance.

A high monitoring score means that the school conducts consistent and frequent (at least monthly) analyses of student performance, teaching strategies, and leadership practices.

Not exact matches

Numerical scores in this analysis place the average performance of Waldorf students above that of students in OECD countries, and above 2 of the 3 high school systems in Austria.

The Headmistress of the School, Mrs Joyce Acolatse, who disclosed this, said a critical analysis of the WASSCE results revealed an excellent improvement in the performance of the students.

The latest analysis of Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) performance tables follows on from the finding last week that the UK's has lost its top - five science ranking, falling from fourth to 14th in the world.

Xiangjia Li, a PhD student on Chen's team and co-first author of the study, says one example of high - performance microdroplet manipulation could lead to more efficient blood analyses for patients.

State higher education performance funding is falling short of its intended goals of raising student retention and degree completion rates at community colleges, according to new research published today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

Reporting out: Reporting out of students» performance should be based not on the counting of points but on the analysis of the data collected for each student within a reporting cycle.

As important, the analysis does not consider any measures of state policies except for exit exams, implying that any other policy changes for the three decades between 1971 and 2004 are either irrelevant for student performance or are not correlated with the introduction and use of exit exams.

The Global Report Card is not the first analysis to compare the performance of U.S. students to international peers.

They are the product of steady and open analysis of student and school performance over many years.

As noted above, one of the benefits of the analysis presented here is that it relies on student performance on NAEP, which should be relatively immune from such test - score «inflation» since it is not used as a high - stakes test under NCLB or any other accountability system.

Our fundamental findings from an analysis of the 3rd - and 4th - grade data for these two years indicate that the performance of students identified for retention, regardless of whether they were retained or exempted and promoted, exceeded the performance of low - performing students from the previous year who were not subject to the retention policy; and students who were actually retained made the larger relative gains.

The GRC analysis also differs from those of Hanushek et al. in that the latter focus on students performing at the advanced or proficient level, while we focused on the average student performance in both math and reading.

However, a key reform of NCLB, Rotherham writes, was that it «changed the unit of analysis for educational performance and accountability from schools to students.»

We conducted our analysis alternately using absolute student achievement, measured with statewide mean SAT scores for the 1989 — 90 school year and the mean high - school dropout rate calculated from 1990 census data, and with a second measure that represents the deviation of actual achievement from expected student performance.

Our analysis compares the performance of students who win the lottery and attend one of the G&T magnet programs to those who lose the lottery and either attend a neighborhood G&T program in the district, a magnet school based on a different specialty, or a charter school.

Analyses show that poor performance at age 15 is not the result of any single risk factor, but rather of a combination and accumulation of various barriers and disadvantages that affect students throughout their lives.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

Based on such analysis, the student may not only get an academic «diagnosis» of his or her aptitude, but also determine ways in which performance can be strengthened and improved, and gaps can be closed.

The resources available for this study ($ 500,000, or roughly $ 8,000 per teacher) would certainly have been more than enough to perform a rigorous analysis of the performance of National Board teachers vis - à - vis unsuccessful candidates, using a random sample of the two groups and adjusting for students» socioeconomic status and previous achievement levels.

By controlling for a wide variety of other characteristics, including the students» own prior performance, our analysis is able to estimate the likely effect of desegregation within the school.

While SAT scores are not particularly useful for long - term analyses of high - school performance because they include only a limited and changing pool of students, they do tell us something about the elite group that does pursue higher education.

Contents • Introduction • Student information • Week by week guide • Homework checklist • Support request sheet • The History of Art — Notable Periods, Styles and Artists • Component 2 Final Outcome Checklist • Art Analysis Prompt Sheet • AQA A level grade boundaries from 2017 • Securing Outstanding A level Performance in Art

Included is: • Introduction • Student information • Week by week guide Homework checklist • Support request sheet • The History of Art — Notable Periods, Styles and Artists • Component 2 Final Outcome Checklist • Art Analysis Prompt Sheet • AQA AS Grade boundaries from 2016 • Securing Outstanding A level Performance in Art Please note: The exam questions are not reproduced within these documents as this would contravene Ofqual regulations.

Again, these simple comparisons are not the best way to examine these questions, but the results of even these crude analyses confirm the findings from the more sophisticated approach we describe below: greater accountability is accompanied by improved student performance.

Results reported thus far have been mixed: an analysis of 2013 cohort data by Wayne State University professor Thomas C. Pedroni found that the majority of EAA students failed to demonstrate progress toward proficiency on the state's assessments in reading and math, and some students» performance (approximately one - third) declined.

The brief progress report on student performance in those subjects, released last week by the U.S. Department of Education, is the latest study of scores in the long - term trends analysis that uses National Assessment of Educational Progress tests.

The No Child Left Behind law changed the unit of analysis for educational performance and accountability from schools to students.

Instead, they trumpet the fact that they reached similar conclusions when they applied the same troubled analysis to other measures of student performance, such as SAT scores and drop - out rates.

A 2004 NCREL meta - analysis of 116 effect sizes from 14 web - delivered K — 12 distance - education programs between 1999 and 2004 found «no significant difference in performance between students who participated in online programs and those who were taught in face - to - face classrooms... in almost every comparison, students in distance education programs performed as well as students in classroom - based programs.»

The analysis, which looked only at charter schools because of the prevalence of incentive programs in the independent public schools, found no impact on students» performance in mathematics.

Our analysis compares U.S. performance to those of students in the other OECD countries.

In an analysis of the program, political scientist William Howell wrote that RttT encouraged applicants to develop «common core state standards,» design a teacher evaluation plan based in part on the performance of their students, ensure «successful conditions for high - performing charter schools,» and numerous other reforms (see «Results of President Obama's Race to the Top,» research, Fall 2015).

Metacognitive Strategies and Test Performance: An Experience Sampling Analysis of Students» Learning Behavior, Education Research International, Volume 2012.

To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).

Cambridge, MA — A new analysis of the economic impact of effective teachers shows that closing just half of the performance gap with Finland, whose students consistently outperform most developed countries, could add more than $ 50 trillion to the U.S. gross domestic product by 2090.

This analysis makes clear that large differences in the performance of high - SES students and low - SES students in the same schools do exist; that these apparent gaps are not simply reflective of gaps in preparation; and that while the variation across school districts is substantial, the variation within school districts may be even larger (at least among the largest districts in Florida).

A recent analysis of mathematics performance yields some disturbing findings about U.S. student achievement.