Sentences with phrase «analyze student achievement»

Access to the right technological tools elevates the role of teachers, who analyze student achievement data to ensure struggling students have the help they need.

Teachers and leaders gathered to analyze Student Achievement Partners» Core Actions videos for instructional practices they want to prioritize.

As the program director of the Using Data initiative at Teaching Matters, he conducted ten institutes, each six days long, to train teacher teams to analyze student achievement data and develop strategic action plans.

Working as a school leader within the Seton Catholic Schools network is unique because it allows principals to get out of the office and into classrooms, working with teachers to build classroom culture, co-plan lessons and analyze student achievement.

His six years at Brookings included projects evaluating the federal Blue Ribbon Schools Program and analyzing student achievement in charter schools.

WestEd collected data from 13 schools across the country using teacher and student surveys (N = 216 and 842 respectively), phone interviews with teachers (N = 19) and principals (N = 12), and analyzed student achievement in 26 schools implementing Tribes TLC for one or more years, and in a select set of high - growth schools.

It analyzes student achievement daily based on multiple points of data from various online resources and assessment providers.

Laura Flaxman analyzes student achievement during the conversion process while Jay Feldman and Lisette López look at the ways in which conversion schools find professional development opportunites that lead to improved teaching and learning.

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Choi, Christine Lippard, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State; and Shinyoung Jeon, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, analyzed data measuring inhibitory control (the ability to pay attention and control natural, but unnecessary thoughts or behaviors) and math achievement for low - income students in Head Start through kindergarten.

As the Department of Education's research chief, Sharon Robinson watched almost 5 percent of her office's budget go to the Educational Testing Service to write and analyze a student - achievement test in 45 states.

Value - Added Model (VAM): In the context of teacher evaluation, value - added modeling is a statistical method of analyzing growth in student - test scores to estimate how much a teacher has contributed to student - achievement growth.

First, we use our entire sample to analyze the extent to which the schools that students attend can explain the overall variation in student test scores and fluid cognitive skills, controlling for differences in prior achievement and student demographic characteristics (including gender, age, race / ethnicity, and whether the student is from a low - income family, is an English language learner, or is enrolled in special education).

I first analyze changes over time in the FCAT test scores of students in their initial 3rd - grade year in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true achievement gains during the period in question.

This special report by the EPE Research Center analyzes the links between state policies related to standards - based reform and gains in student achievement over the past decade.

I present data for the staff to analyze and challenge them to come up with ways to increase student achievement.

The key to this new emphasis on achievement was the TRIAND data - management system, developed in partnership with a local software vendor to capture, analyze, and share specific student achievement data among administrators, school leaders, teachers, and even parents.

The data allow me to use several different methods to analyze the effect of start times on student achievement.

«SDP offers districts and states a terrific opportunity to catalyze their analytical talent,» said Glover, «We look forward to working closely with SDP partners to develop and expand methods of identifying, collecting, and analyzing data to help education leaders make policy decisions that are likely to have significant impact on raising student achievement.»

And if the underlying measure of student achievement in these studies was standardized tests, as was surely the case in many of them, why are such tests acceptable as measures of teacher quality in studies that are meta - analyzed and used indirectly, but unacceptable when they are used directly to assess teacher quality in a structured research design?

Although a number of recent studies analyze the relationship between charter school attendance and student achievement, this is the first analysis of the impacts of charter school attendance on educational attainment.

I propose that when teachers analyze test scores and VAM measures to unpack student achievement, they can have three conversations:

It is possible, however, to analyze the effect of Prop 227 indirectly by examining the relationship between the percentage of students enrolled in bilingual education and the achievement of English Learners across the more than 9,000 schools in California.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

Releasing a study that analyzed state actions and student outcomes from the «education - reform decade» of the 1980's, Gregory R. Anrig, president of the Educational Testing Service, said the reforms of the past decade «probably did all they could do» to raise student achievement.

In an experimental study, designed to deliver extensive independent reading intervention, researchers analyzed the effects a reading only intervention program had on student achievement.

If teachers don't create and analyze data on student achievement, tying a system of evaluating or compensating them to the outcomes of their students becomes capricious and counterproductive.

Teachers discuss and analyze student data such as test scores and achievement gaps, identifying areas in which students» needs aren't being adequately met and redesigning the curricula to meet those needs.

Cordes analyzed 14 years of student achievement data for 876,731 3rd — through 5th - graders attending 584 district elementary schools located in the same community school district within New York City where at least one charter school served students in the same grades.

In addition, this student achievement data helps us analyze teacher effectiveness.

The aim of the study was to analyze as much research as possible to rank the practices that have the biggest effect on student achievement.

The SDP Toolkit for Effective Data Use is a resource guide for education agency analysts who collect and analyze data on student achievement.

-LSB-...] cited John Hattie's work analyzing the effect of 138 influences on student achievement.

After analyzing a truly staggering amount of data, the researchers conclude that teacher effectiveness can be measured by using «value - added» analysis of student achievement growth on standardized tests.

Dominic Brewer and I analyzed teacher certification and its relationship to student achievement at the level of individual teachers and found that teachers with standard certification outperform those who are not certified in their field, but they do not appear to be more effective than those who hold emergency credentials (teachers who have not satisfied all of the requirements necessary to obtain a standard certificate).

Greenwald et al.'s 1996 meta - analysis found that teachers» academic skills were shown to have a positive relationship to student achievement in 50 percent of the studies they analyzed, a much higher proportion than for teacher education or experience.

This one analyzed the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) achievement scores of 185,475 fourth - grade students in 34 countries.3

Major Responsibilities Develop relationships with faculty and staff as a means to foster a positive school climate; analyze achievement and discipline data to find leverage point for system change; create user - friendly, service - oriented administrative team that focuses on overall student growth.

One researcher analyzed three different sets of PISA scores, representing more than 800,000 students in more than 50 countries.1 For the 2000 data set, there was a statistically significant correlation between reading and science achievement in all 43 countries examined, with correlations ranging from 0.675 to 0.916.

We analyzed the data in the context of seven additional measures related to principals «assessments of the districts «focus on accountability — through such items, e.g., as Our district has explicit targets beyond NCLB targets, and The district uses student achievement data to determine PD needs and resources.

After analyzing student outcome data and comparing current student performance with annual yearly progress benchmarks for student achievement, the leadership team agrees that there are significant differences in outcomes among students of diverse racial, ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds unrelated to socioeconomic status???.

In 2014, The Center for Student Achievement analyzed Arizona's complex and outdated funding system and created a graphic to show how K - 12 education is funded.

Findings show that TIPA led to statistically significant increases in student achievement in all four core subjects analyzed as measured by Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) test results.

Striking gains in student achievement and teacher growth through arts integration are the clear, independently analyzed outcomes of the PAIR project.

To be successful in today's environment, a district must be able to analyze its students» achievements.

The student achievement data were used to analyze the achievement of WSI participating schools compared to state averages and a sample of matched comparison schools.

CTAC's professional development audit analyzes both quantitative and qualitative data to understand the impact of professional development on student achievement, as well as on the practices and perceptions of educators.

Evaluators also analyzed annual student achievement data from the criterion - based Mississippi Curriculum Test for subgroups of students at each grade in each school in the state.

Research analyzed by the National Reading Panel suggests that just encouraging students to read independently isn't the most effective way to improve reading achievement.

«They understand and agree with the moral imperative to address the achievement gap... But the answer is not swamping your elementary teachers with initiatives while reducing their time to implement, assess and analyze / plan, and overassessing your students.»

He collects, analyzes, and interprets education data related to student achievement, attainment, and opportunities to learn.