Sentences with phrase «at achievement data»

We shifted towards standardized forms of inquiry, looking at student achievement data for the handful of Mam - speaking students who had been at Bridges for more than a few years; looking at achievement data for the 15 Mam - speaking kindergartners; looking at the entry level of Spanish proficiency (as measured by the IPT Language Proficiency Test) for native Spanish speaking students in our bilingual program and comparing the IPT scores of Mam - speaking children.

When leaders articulate a school's overall purpose in looking at achievement data, the faculty can then ask, «How do we use this data to serve students best?»

Not exact matches

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.

Indeed, that the data show the increase in death by self - destruction is not limited to whites with low educational achievement suggests that something else is at work — or at least something more complicated than lower economic achievement or increasing inequality.

In a secondary analysis, the NSLY found that the achievement scores of children breastfed for at least 29 weeks were 1.5 points higher than those of children never breastfed (P =.01), but the authors considered their data about breastfeeding duration «less reliable» than data about whether a child was ever breastfed.

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.

On the release of the full wheat genome data set, Project lead Prof Federica Di Palma, Director of Science at TGAC, said: «This is a remarkable achievement which exemplifies the kind of science that TGAC's skilled and multidisciplinary staff are able to deliver.

«The measurement is exquisite, it's really an amazing technical achievement,» says Lloyd Knox, a cosmologist at University of California, Davis, of the polarization data.

Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievement.

Student achievement data at Highlands Elementary School suggest that lesson study is paying off for students (Lewis, Perry, Hurd, and O'Connell, 2006).

Teachers at Mesquite meet weekly with the student achievement teacher to review the most recent assessment data and plan instruction for each student accordingly.

This analysis uses data on math and reading achievement from the state NAEP, which offers a representative sample of student achievement in each state at regular intervals.

Most states now have such information in their longitudinal databases, but no published studies have used these data to compare the achievement growth of students at virtual schools with demographically similar students at carefully selected comparison schools.

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.

The peer - reviewed study, which is featured in the Fall 2010 issue of Education Next, is the first to compare Americans» subjective ratings of local schools to actual data on student achievement at the same schools.

Los Altos already ranked among the best - performing districts in the state, but it had set itself a goal of improving individual achievement, and «capturing data at a granular level» on each student was proving difficult, Goines told me.

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.

To obtain our estimate of the student achievement component of the knowledge capital of a state at any point in time, we use census data to trace workers back to the place in which they were born.

The issue of the relative quality of private and public schools was at the core of our research, and we relied on both data on school resources and day - to - day operations and on student achievement scores.

Taking data from TIMSS, we used a quasi-experimental design to take a broader look at how class size affects student achievement in different nations around the world.

But since the report's publication, scholars have developed more precise data on teacher effectiveness, and, by probing at differences in teacher quality within schools, have found very large impacts of teacher quality on student achievement.

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.

While student - achievement data run counter to rising public optimism, the change in public thinking corresponds with the new mood that emerged on Capitol Hill in 2015 when Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which stripped the federal government of much of its authority to direct school reforms at the local level.

In this, the second of two articles on one - to - one computing (See The 411 on One - to - One Computing), we look at reasons to consider one - to - one computing in the classroom, research data on the impact of technology on student achievement, concerns about technology's overuse in the classroom, and tips to ensure that classroom computing helps, rather than hinders, the learning process.

Not the traditional student achievement that we've looked at for years in the States, which is that end of year data that has a shelf life that's only slightly longer than the milk that's in my refrigerator.

A Rising Tide Harvard Gazette, 6/12/14 «Researchers at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) have studied the first round of academic achievement data to come out of Lawrence since the turnaround effort started.

At New Mexico School for the Arts, we tried a variety of approaches for using data to improve student achievement, and we didn't get it right at firsAt New Mexico School for the Arts, we tried a variety of approaches for using data to improve student achievement, and we didn't get it right at firsat first.

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.

· Student achievement data is collaboratively analysed at the end of the term.

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.

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?

In a new study presented at the this year's fall research conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in Chicago, we used data from CORE Districts, to assess whether there are systematic mindset differences present in the US population within and across schools, and whether holding a growth mindset predicts academic achievement gains of students.

Looking at data from students who lived in the HCZ neighborhood and attended a Promise Academy charter school there, and others who only attended Promise, Fryer and Dobbie found that by eighth grade, both groups had closed the achievement gap in math.

«Student achievement data are underutilized in every school district and state agency in America,» said Thomas Kane, faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research and professor of education and economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

If you look at student achievement data, say in New York state, results on the typical New York state test correlate to socioeconomic status in reading, one and a half to two times as much as they do in math.

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (NICHD SECCYD) collected detailed information on achievement, social development, family experiences, child - care quality, and schooling for roughly 1,300 children at regular intervals from birth on, yielding data that have resulted in numerous influential papers on child care and family background effects on early achievement and social adjustment.

-- According to findings released today by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), the gap in college enrollment rates between black students and white students in four large, urban districts disappears or even reverses direction once prior achievement and socioeconomic background is accounted for.

More schools are using digital data - analysis tools to spotlight, share, and respond to information on student achievement at a schoolwide level.

A closer look at both assessment and other student data can help administrators recognize red flags in class access, school climate, parent involvement, and other areas that could be undermining their efforts to close achievement gaps.

Above all, look at the data on student achievement.

Don Knezek: We think that ISTE has a role in leading the agenda that says, «Take student achievement as your primary focus and look at all the ways in which technology supports it — including school management, school leadership, data management, and the actual learning process.»

The advantages come at the price of concerns about the limited number of country observations, the mostly cross-sectional character of available achievement data, and possible bias from unobserved country factors such as culture.

Because the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, known as CALPADS, isn't collecting all the data that's needed, CORE plans to work with a third - party data collection service run by a non-governmental agency: The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford UniversData System, known as CALPADS, isn't collecting all the data that's needed, CORE plans to work with a third - party data collection service run by a non-governmental agency: The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford Universdata that's needed, CORE plans to work with a third - party data collection service run by a non-governmental agency: The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford Universdata collection service run by a non-governmental agency: The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University.

«That's the first time they looked at pre - and post-test data for the summer and found, «Oh, this is a huge problem for our kids and it reflects an achievement gap that we know exists,»» a city staff member recalled.

The study looks at academic, financial and demographic data and identifies districts and campuses that produce high academic achievement while maintaining cost - effective operations.

Take a look at the U.S. Department of Education technology plan (NETP) that endorses the use of data and devices to advance learning and achievement.

According to data from the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), only 28 % of fourth graders, 31 % of eighth graders, and 24 % of twelfth graders performed at or above a proficient (i.e., competent) level of writing achievement for their respective grade level (Persky, Daane, & Jin, 2003).

The California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, or CALPADS, is designed to allow a comprehensive look at student data across California that can be used to create targeted efforts to improve student aAchievement Data System, or CALPADS, is designed to allow a comprehensive look at student data across California that can be used to create targeted efforts to improve student achievemData System, or CALPADS, is designed to allow a comprehensive look at student data across California that can be used to create targeted efforts to improve student achievemdata across California that can be used to create targeted efforts to improve student achievementachievement.

Obama has proposed a «Success in the Middle Act,» which would provide federal support to improve the education of middle school students in low - performing schools by requiring states to develop detailed plans to improve student achievement, develop and utilize early identification data systems to identify those students most at - risk of dropping out, and invest in proven strategies that reduce the number of drop outs.