Sentences with phrase «assessing impact on learning»

We understand the potential of these new extensions of the library's mission of enabling the free exploration of ideas, yet we are left with the perennial problem of assessing impact on learning.

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The departing schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, defended the release of the rankings in an e-mail to school staff members, acknowledging that they had limitations but calling them «the fairest systemwide way we have to assess the real impact of teachers on student learning.»

Nevertheless, experts are tracking radiation levels worldwide to learn more about the accident and to assess the possible impacts on health.

Investigators will examine the impact of the mSMT on new learning and memory abilities and measures of daily life functioning and overall quality of life, assessing both groups immediately post-treatment and at one and two years post-intervention.

The coming days will see an increased focus on understanding learner behavior and its analysis to assess what can impact it and align the learning experience to the performance gains that the business seeks.

This reminds me of a study carried out by Rising Stars and Dave Whyley, headteacher and consultant of Learning Technologies at Wolverhampton City Council who ran an eBook pilot Learning2go project with schools, to assess their impact on engagement and reading.

As the programme comes to an end, Key Stage 2 teacher Andrew Riley assesses whether a digital classroom really does have a major positive impact on teaching and learning.

Key Stage 2 teacher Andrew Riley assesses whether a digital classroom really does have a major positive impact on teaching and learning.

Two tools have been developed, one which assesses risk, and the other which tracks provision and helps a school judge the impact of the use of technology on learning.

But now the game has changed, and extended enterprise learning can be assessed on the basis of its impacts — negative and positive — for the business.

Dee also spoke with Education Next about why it is difficult to assess the impact of the law on student learning in this interview.

Starting in 2008, GLEF and a research team from the University of Washington have been working with Washington's Bellevue School District to develop and assess the impact of project - based learning approaches on upper - level AP courses in high school.

Students enrolled in the HGSE course will study how to recognize opportunities and assess needs for informal learning interventions; how to conduct, assemble, and synthesize research on media - based teaching and learning in a particular domain; how to design, test, and revise materials that are responsive to particular audiences and objectives; how to make diversity a fundamental component of the design process; and how to gauge the short - and long - term impact of an intervention.

Positive outcomes from technology investments require three things: visionary leadership, ongoing support for teacher training, and valid tools for assessing the impact of technology on student learning.

The RIDES initiative is building upon prior work in ways that can increase the impact we have on the sector by focusing on practices: How people learn, customize, use, and assess the impacts of systemic approaches to integration in their settings.

A short - lived federal rule would have required every state to assess and rank teacher - preparation programs by their graduates» impact on student learning.

Assessing the impact of hypertext on learners» architecture of literacy learning spaces in different disciplines: Follow - up studies.

Ultimately People for Education's research findings should help to inform our own practice as we strive to assess and share the impact of the school library learning commons program on all aspects of student growth and development.

Attitudes about learning as well as the tangible projects will be assessed to measure the impact this creative genius has on how the entire school plans, teaches and learns.

Improving the educational outcomes of students receiving special education services, as for any other student group, requires a sustained focus on teaching and learning, aligned actions across the district, and continuous monitoring of the degree of implementation of such actions to assess the impact on student learning.

For students, the authors argue, the ability to assess their own learning — that is, to actively understand their own progress and trajectory — can have a significant impact on achievement levels.

• Studies show value - added methods (a popular form of merit pay) to be statistically flawed as tools of assessing a teacher's impact on student learning.

Through online or on - site courses and workshops, teachers learn a variety of research - based strategies and proven best practices for teaching reading and writing and assessing their impact on students» literacy skills.

We regularly assess the effectiveness of instruction and its impact on student learning.

The current outdated evaluation system, established in the 1970s, does not reflect the needs of today's teachers, acknowledge or assess their impact on student learning, or provide them with meaningful guidance and supports.

For school communities already committed to providing arts integration practice, the alternative methods and tools developed in the PAIR project demonstrate how to qualitatively and quantitatively assess the impact of individual teacher arts integration professional development variables on individual student arts integration and academic learning outcomes.

Evaluations in years one and two (1) assessed preschool quality using two observational measures, (2) measured children's gains in receptive vocabulary, literacy, math and executive functions, and (3) compared gains of SPP attendees to those of a non-equivalent comparison group to estimate SPP impacts on children's learning and development.

Assess impacts of implementation on the professional learning of teachers, leaders and coaches, and more distally, upon the growth and development of children in all intervention centers.

Requiring each district to measure and track the efficiency and effectiveness of its ELT schools, including developing measurable goals to annually and longitudinally assess the implementation and impact of additional learning time on student achievement, retention, attendance, higher education attainment, and other relevant measures.

«We're looking forward to working closely with a select group of institutions and faculty that are interested in assessing the impact of these digital - first tools on teaching and learning.»

You will learn how to recognize the signs of trauma and PTSD and the impact it has on a relationship, how to identify the role trauma plays when there's been an affair, and assess the impact of an affair on the Sound Relationship House.

Instead of focusing on having the highest standard of evidence for assessing the impact of a program, it may be better to consider how to ensure evaluation learnings are used to inform program practice, similar to continuous quality improvement processes used in the health sector.

All intervention programmes should be carefully monitored to assess and record their impact on pupil progress, participation in learning and in school life.