Sentences with phrase «assign grades as»

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Thus we must assign the mode of causal efficacy to the fundamental constitution of an occasion so that in germ this mode belongs even to organisms of the lowest grade; while the mode of presentational immediacy requires the more sophistical activity of the later states of process, so as to belong only to organisms of a relatively high grade.

The professors then together assigned a secret «base grade» for each student to serve as a benchmark for their subsequent achievement.

We must assign the mode of causal efficacy to the fundamental constitution of an occasion so that in germ this mode belongs even to organisms of the lowest grade; while the mode of presentational immediacy requires the more sophistical activity of the latter stages of process, so as to belong only to organisms of a relatively high grade (PR 261).

I kept notes as I traveled, and assigned each pair of compression socks an informal grade based on how tight they were, how comfortable they were, and how sturdy they were during my travels.

Interestingly, whatever percent is assigned to standardized testing will only affect a small minority of teacher evaluations as only 20 percent of teachers are in subjects and grades that have state testing.

After recruiting a sample of 587 demographically diverse parents and their first - grade children in the Chicago area, they randomly assigned some families to use a math - based iPad app that involved reading short stories and answering questions on topics such as counting, shapes, and problem solving.

Schools that received F grades in 1999 experienced increases in test scores that were more than twice as large as those experienced by schools with higher state - assigned grades.

In a study of fourth - and fifth - grade students, we found that those randomly assigned to learn the WWWDOT framework became, as compared to their pre-test and to a control group, more aware of the need to evaluate information on the internet for credibility and better able to evaluate the trustworthiness of websites on multiple dimensions (Zhang & Duke, 2011).

In addition, a survey of English language arts classrooms published by the Fordham Institute found that most elementary - school teachers, at least in the early stages of common core implementation, assigned books based on students» abilities, rather than grade - level complexity, as the standards state.

In fourth grade his school classified him as having emotional problems and assigned him a personal aide.

While girls do as well as or better than boys when teachers assign grades in all three subjects, they score significantly lower on both the math and

During this time, Florida was engaged in other education reforms as well: instituting several school - voucher programs, increasing the number of charter schools in the state, and improving the system used to assign grades to schools based on the FCAT.

Americans assign far higher grades to the public schools in their local community than to the public schools of the nation as a whole.

However, many education researchers speak and write as though they accept certain contingency - free causal connections — for example, that small schools are better than large ones; that time on task raises achievement; that summer school raises test scores; that school desegregation hardly affects achievement; and that assigning and grading homework improves achievement.

Assigning a failing grade to a school as a result of high - stakes testing may be politically embarrassing, but it usually has no effect on school budgets and almost never has any meaningful consequences for individual teachers.

Instead, all the 6th grade math teachers and students operate as a single team, and students are assigned to teachers and modes of instruction based on daily assessments and their particular learning styles.

Similarly, teachers who act as instructors will still need to spend time examining their students» work and the grades that assessors assign in order to understand their students» needs and adjust their instruction accordingly.

In these studies (separated by a year and composed of a separate set of students), seventh - grade students at a racially diverse middle school in the northeast United States were randomly assigned to self - affirm or not to self - affirm as part of a brief classroom exercise.

Such assessments can be undertaken during teaching to establish how well students have learnt what they have been taught so far and to identify gaps and the need for reteaching — sometimes referred to as «formative» assessments — or they can be undertaken at the completion of a course to determine how well students have mastered the course content and to assign «summative» grades.

• A different Chetty study reports that «students who were randomly assigned to higher - quality classrooms in grades K — 3 — as measured by classmates» end - of - class test scores — have higher earnings, college attendance rates, and other outcomes.»

Shortly after I began teaching as a provisionally certified elementary - school teacher, I remember counting myself lucky that I was assigned to teach 5th grade, since I hadn't been taught the first thing about teaching children to read.

Our survey asked parents to assign their child's school a letter grade, A through F. Nearly twice as many choice parents gave their child's school an A (53 percent) as did public - school parents (26 percent).

Fifteen elementary schools and more than 1200 children in second and fourth grades in urban and suburban districts in Washington were assigned to participate in the Second Step program, versus as control, using a quasi-experimental design.

What matters for this analysis is not which student was assigned to which teacher within the grade, but how the movement of teachers has altered the quality of teaching in that grade as a whole.

I addressed that fear in an 11th - grade unit on The Merchant of Venice by having students divide an assigned research question into three or four subtopics depending on the number of people in the group — each individual had his or her own responsibility as the groups explored the cultural and contextual background of the play and then wrote a collaborative research paper.

Most notably, more of them give the schools a D or an F than assign an A or a B. Only 20 percent of survey respondents give the schools in the nation as a whole one of the two top grades, over 50 percent give them a C, and no less than 25 percent grade them with a D or an F. African Americans and Hispanics are even more likely than whites to give the nation's schools low marks.

«Three of the special education teachers are assigned to self - contained classrooms for students — mostly those classified as mildly, moderately, or severely retarded — who are functioning two or more years below grade level.

As noted above, the Florida Department of Education uses the total number of points received (i.e., the sum of level - and growth - related points) to assign each school a letter grade between A and F.

As a result, the special education / inclusion teacher assigned to grades 3 and 4 spends roughly one - third of her time in each of three classrooms.

This attrition could reflect ordinary factors unrelated to the study, such as students» moving out of a school's geographic zone or having to repeat a grade, as well as families» responses to being assigned to a particular class.

Parents were 50 percent more likely to assign a grade of B or below to a tough teacher than to a relatively easy teacher, after adjusting for the same controls as above.

Use the paragraph students write to assign a grade based on their comprehension of the use of the Venn diagram and ability to use it as a tool to write a logical paragraph.

The relationship between NAEP performance and the grades citizens assign their schools could easily be driven by other variables, such as the prosperity level of the state, that influence student achievement levels and could also influence school grades.

Florida is also a national trendsetter in education policies, such as evaluating teachers based, in part, on test scores and assigning schools and districts A through F letter grades for their performance.

The organization tracks the reading habits of some 10 million US students at all grade levels through its Accelerated Reader program, in which students record and take quizzes about books they read, both independently and as assigned reading.

When assessment is simply seen as a test, resulting in points scored and grades assigning, the fundamental learning opportunities of effective assessment practices are lost; and what a tragedy this is.

For the most part, children are assigned to a grade level based on the year they were born and are expected to advance at roughly the same pace as their same - aged peers across all subjects — a system that bores advanced students while others struggle to keep up.

Leonie Haimson's career as a New York City education activist started when her older child was assigned to a first - grade class with 28 other students.

Performance of students in prekindergarten through grade 12 who are assigned to in - field program completers aggregated by student subgroups, as defined in the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), 20 U.S.C. s. 6311 (b)(2)(C)(v)(II), as a measure of how well the program prepares teachers to work with a variety of students in Florida public schools.

In addition, individual schools are evaluated and assigned a school grade using the same standards and criteria as traditional public schools.

As part of a unit on how to write effective paragraphs, a 4th grade teacher assigned her students to write a paragraph answering the question, «Do dogs or cats make better pets?»

The Reach Induction program and partner school will identify and assign a mentor to each participating teacher within the first 30 days of the participating teacher's enrollment in the program, matching the mentor and participating teacher according to grade level and / or subject area, as appropriate to the participant's employment.

Some teachers use curves to grade exams, whereas other teachers prefer to assign grades with the percentages as is.

Asked to assign letter grades to their children's schools, the vast majority of parents - generally around 70 percent - issue As and Bs.

Ninth - grade students identified as good and poor readers were randomly assigned to learn social studies content either with the typical textbook lessons or lessons constructed around the Frayer Model steps (Peters, 1974 — 1975).

Additionally, if there is a wide range of proficiency levels in a critical subject area such as English, a principal may consider assigning students based on proficiency rather than grade level.

In his election campaign, Walker proposed assigning letter grades to schools based on criteria such as graduation rates, passing rates, enrollment in advanced placement courses, test scores, and teacher and administrator evaluations.

Most assumed that a low score or grade was probably justly assigned and that a decision made about a student as a result was as defensible as the evidence on which it was based.

Students are eligible for the program if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating and the student satisfies one of the following conditions: the student attends a local public school that has received a grade D or F by the state's performance index score, the student is assigned to a community school but would otherwise be assigned to a qualifying school, the student attends a local public school that was ranked in the lowest 10 percent of public schools in two of the three most recent rankings and the public school was not declared to be excellent or effective in the most recent rating system, or the student is enrolling in grades K — 12 for the first time and would be assigned to a qualifying school as long as they are at least 5 years old by Jan. 1 of the school year.

Facing History designed this planning guide for schools that want to assign Wonder as a whole - school or whole - grade read.