Sentences with phrase «assigned high achieving students»

After all, we've shown that teachers who are assigned poorly prepared students get lower classroom observation ratings than teachers who are assigned high achieving students, and we've said that is unfair and needs to be corrected.

More specifically, «ELA [English / language arts] teachers were more than twice as likely to be rated in the top performance quintile if [nearly randomly] assigned the highest achieving students compared with teachers assigned the low - est achieving students,» and «math teachers were more than 6 times as likely.»

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Similarly, because growth measures may do a poor job of capturing the progress of high - achieving students, some states may want the weights assigned to achievement and growth to vary based on the level at which a school's students are achieving.

Specifically, a teacher assigned the highest - achieving students is four times as likely to get a very high observation score as a teacher assigned the lowest - achieving students.

In our main experiment, we randomly assigned each of 3,000 high - achieving, low - income 2011 — 12 high school seniors to the ECO-C Intervention and the same number of students to the control group.

Since the grades assigned vary much less across classrooms than does students» performance on standardized tests, high - achieving students should be more likely to earn high grades in classrooms where the other students, on average, do not perform well on external assessments.

We found that a teacher receives a higher value - added score when he is teaching students who are already higher - achieving, more affluent and more versed in English than when he is assigned large numbers of new English learners and students with fewer educational advantages.

State assigns low grade to high poverty school that achieves remarkable academic growth At East Garner Elementary School, Principal Kimberly Burton asked her teachers what they really needed to help their students succeed.

His results were striking: after one semester, students who were randomly assigned to experience the intervention achieved a significantly higher GPA than students in the control group.

The reading, science, and math coaches help me monitor student reading skills using the online reading skills evaluations, and as a student achieves a higher reading level, through the data and the software, we assign them to guided reading groups.

The state board resolved that any school district that assigned students to a particular level based on assessed or perceived readiness had to disclose this fact to parents and report to the state the research proving that this separate placement was necessary, the length of time it planned to deny children in lower levels access to learning with higher - achieving peers, and the demographic characteristics of those children denied access to higher - achieving peers.»