Sentences with phrase «as the achievement data»

Second, schools must actively seek out the kind of data they need as well as the achievement data external stakeholders need.

Not exact matches

«Attitude is really important,» said Chen, «Based on our data, the unique contribution of positive attitude to math achievement is as large as the contribution from IQ.»

The New England Patriots are almost as famous for their data as for their quarterback Tom Brady; this year, head coach Bill Belichick was given a lifetime achievement award at Sloan.

After its world, its subjectivity, this room for development, has been exhausted, after the achievement of its subjective aim, which is its supreme concretion and unity, it is now to be regarded as occurring in various other processes of concrescence as objectified, as a datum.

He encouraged them to set their own high goals and standards for student achievement, to be caring, and to use data as a powerful tool in intervention and guidance.

The data reported today show continued increases in median event - free survival and muscle function scores as well as achievement of developmental milestones.

As part of the Clinical Genomics lab's contribution to this commitment, our scientists and staff provide tools, curate critical data, and deliver diagnostic services that help the achievement of goals held by research and clinical communities around the world.

But only when data is tied to action do we see increases in student achievement and high school graduation rates, as well as more dollars and resources directed to low - performing schools.

This system combines important qualitative practice scores, quantitative growth and achievement data, school and network factors, as well as a community and parent engagement factor.

In addition to the image - based design we think of as a digital badge, badges have meta - data to communicate details of the badge to anyone wishing to verify it, or learn more about the context of the achievement it signifies.

But you'll also need hard data on such issues as student and staff mobility, numbers of staff evaluations, and the number of efforts you, as principal, make to increase student achievement.

While it is now widely recognised that social - emotional wellbeing is a protective factor for wellbeing and mental health, as well as a key to educational success, the current emphasis on academic achievement and data - driven accountability in schools tends to relegate social and emotional learning to one side.

Measures of school performance based on carefully constructed comparisons of student achievement growth, and other important outcomes, such as high - school graduation and college enrollment rates, require student - level data that are not publicly available.

Using more recent data, a report by the Center on Education Policy concludes that reading and math achievement as measured by state assessments has increased in most states since 2002 and that there have been smaller but similar patterns in NAEP scores.

o To keep costs low, the system must rely primarily on existing data (such as student achievement, grade retention, attendance, graduation, college going and student log files from educational software providers).

As with many other successful data - driven schools, at Elm City the work begins before school starts, when teachers and principals — both Dale Chu, who heads up the elementary grades, and Marc Michaelson, who oversees the middle school — use a variety of diagnostic tests to understand the ability and achievement levels of their incoming students.

As the experiences of these three schools make clear, the use of data can help teachers and leaders stay focused on student achievement.

For the most part, he says, the past decade of research on the accountability movement in education has focused on two things: whether or not the tests increased academic achievement, and how high - stakes testing has led to certain behaviors such as teaching to the test or manipulating the data.

In implementing READS, districts must adopt a set of data use strategies that inform decision - making and help to improve student achievement, such as examining spring to fall achievement gains or losses and using the results of student surveys and achievement tests to select books that are well matched to students» reading skills and interests.

Newly available data on «reduction - in - force» (RIF) notices received by teachers in Washington State shed light on the consequences of existing layoff policies for student achievement as well as the consequences of adopting alternatives.

Our data on student achievement come from the Washington State Assessment of Student Learning, a statewide test given annually in 3rd through 8th grade as well as in 10th grade.

As with the national data, we should be mindful that demographic changes can affect achievement trends, especially as Hispanic students make up an ever - larger proportion of our populatioAs with the national data, we should be mindful that demographic changes can affect achievement trends, especially as Hispanic students make up an ever - larger proportion of our populatioas Hispanic students make up an ever - larger proportion of our population.

To ensure that we could link student achievement data to the appropriate teacher, we limited our sample to classroom teachers, omitting music and gym teachers as well as librarians.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

The ideal assessment will be more nuanced, gathering student data over time but also looking at the small, yet significant improvements in achievement, such as higher grades or increased participation in class, which might not be immediately reflected in students» test scores.

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.

Research shows that increasing the time students are actually engaged in learning, along with other factors such as high expectations and the use of data to guide instruction, results in what we want for all students: confidence, love of learning, and higher achievement.

Indeed, change is desperately needed in this corner of the K — 12 world, as any look at the (woeful) achievement data or (skyrocketing) spending data for special - needs students demonstrates.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

Until 2015, when Ofsted Data Dashboard closed, Achievement for All collected average point score (APS) data each term from participating schools, as a measure of attainment across schools» target groData Dashboard closed, Achievement for All collected average point score (APS) data each term from participating schools, as a measure of attainment across schools» target grodata each term from participating schools, as a measure of attainment across schools» target groups.

These data allow for comparisons between children within states who are otherwise similar in their academic achievement as well as in other background characteristics.

Effective coaching programs respond to particular needs suggested by data, allowing improvement efforts to target issues such as closing achievement gaps and advocating for equity.

I am not as persuaded as Kahlenberg is by the peer - effect data showing, he claims, that economic integration supports achievement, but I generally agree with his goals and his solution.

As part of the Strategic Data Project's (SDP) first Institute for Leadership Analytics, participants spent four days examining student achievement data as a means to understand students» progress through high school and into college, and patterns of teacher effectivenesAs part of the Strategic Data Project's (SDP) first Institute for Leadership Analytics, participants spent four days examining student achievement data as a means to understand students» progress through high school and into college, and patterns of teacher effectivenData Project's (SDP) first Institute for Leadership Analytics, participants spent four days examining student achievement data as a means to understand students» progress through high school and into college, and patterns of teacher effectivendata as a means to understand students» progress through high school and into college, and patterns of teacher effectivenesas a means to understand students» progress through high school and into college, and patterns of teacher effectiveness.

One can criticize the exactitude that we are imposing on the data, as achievement and attainment results must match regarding both direction and statistical significance.

The report cites an analysis of 1991 International Assessment of Educational Progress (IAEP) data as offering international evidence that private schools do not have significantly higher student achievement than public schools after controlling for student background.

Recommendations for states, districts, and individual schools include improved teacher training, support for e-learning and virtual schools, stronger technology leadership, a move toward more digital content and away from reliance on textbooks, better use of broadband, and integration of data systems for such uses as online testing, understanding relationships between decisions, allocation of resources and student achievement, and tailoring instruction to individual students.

As with national and state data, we should be mindful that demographic changes can affect achievement trends.

In my book, The Collapse of Parenting, I share data from many sources — including the National Institutes of Health, international databases such as the PISA program, scholarly papers by researchers such as Professor Jean Twenge, and many other sources — showing that American kids are indeed more likely to be obese, less likely to be physically fit, more likely to be anxious and depressed, compared with American kids 30 years ago — and in the case of academic achievement, doing much less well compared with kids in other countries, again a big change compared with American kids 30 years ago.

Is it any wonder that, even as national assessment data have shown decent gains in math achievement in recent years (at least in the early grades), reading outcomes remain dismal?

These data provide us with information on achievement, as measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), before students applied and, even more crucially, with post-application achievement data for students who remained in Chicago's regular public schools.

The investigators addressed questions such as the correlation between grit and achievement and the relationship between grit and other measures by combining relevant data from all the studies.

From the implementation of the Common Core, to the recent debate surrounding teacher tenure, nearly every issue in public education today can be seen as a facet of a single, fundamental policy question: how should we use standardized assessments and the student achievement data these tests produce?

Furthermore, as the Teach Plus Fellows explain, these additional data can be used to «examine whether certain factors have predictive power» for improving student achievement.

While many principals extol the benefits of using student achievement data as a diagnostic tool, officials downtown remain deeply suspicious of the longer - term consequences that will accompany repeated failures to make adequate yearly progress.

Ladd is so confident of her data that she attacks as deniers those who question a strong correlation between income and achievement.

The PISA data — underwhelming for those two subjects as well — also showed that achievement and career opportunities were far from equal, especially for poor and immigrant youngsters and those not fluent in German.

The aligned assessments, however, became politically charged, because they were introduced simultaneously with new teacher - evaluation systems that used student - achievement data as a significant criterion.

According to a Pew Research Center report, gamification is «interactive online design that plays on people's competitive instincts and often incorporates the use of rewards to drive action — these include virtual rewards such as points, payments, badges, discounts and free gifts; and status indicators such as friend counts, re-tweets, leaderboards, achievement data, progress bars and the ability to level up.»

We must study our local data, and intervene with as much fervor for a student with a social - emotional issue as we do for a student with an achievement issue.