Sentences with phrase «basis of student performance»

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Note: The Co-op program is a course for which students obtain a grade of «CR» (completed requirements) or a grade of «F» (fail) based on a satisfactory work performance, performance evaluation and a passing grade for their work - term report.

«We have yet to encounter a single student who was either not ready or somehow too advanced for the kind of performance - and project - based education that we advocate,» he wrote.

Admission is based on a review of many factors, including strong prior academic performance, positive teacher reports, a successful interview at our School, and the student's ability to give something back to our School community.

Over the past five years, Duncan has used a combination of financial incentives and regulatory waivers to push the use of teacher performance ratings based partly on student test scores.

To help achieve the Governor's goal of encouraging efficiency and results, the Executive Budget allocates $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that demonstrate significant improvement in their student performance outcomes and another $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Teachers who earn that number of points from the classroom - observance component are virtually assured of compiling enough points from other parts of their evaluations, based on students» performance on tests, to be rated «effective.»

The system is based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

Under the proposal, half of the expected 300 students would have to meet the higher performance standards while the others — who could be admitted by taking a school tour or signing up for information at a fair, for example — could gain entry based on less stringent criteria, the notice stated.

At least 20 percent of the evaluations have to be based on student performance on the state tests.

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

Prohibits school districts from promoting or placing a student based solely or primarily on a student's performance on state - administered ELA and math assessments in grades 3 through 8; and requires school districts to notify parents / guardians of the district's grade promotion and placement policy along with an explanation of how such policy was developed

Another 65 percent of voters also did not feel that teacher tenure should be based on student standardized test performance versus 30 percent who did.

The governor has proposed a teacher rating system that would base 50 percent of an instructor's evaluation on student performance on state tests — an increase from the current 20 percent.

Under a new plan pressed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and adopted by the state legislature as part of the budget, half of a teacher's performance review could be based on how well the students do on the exams.

I believe both components — in - class observation and growth in student performance — are necessary and that use of the state test is needed to provide a statewide basis of comparison.

The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of teacher evaluations based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

A champion of the Common Core learning standards, Dr. Tisch, 60, pushed for the creation of new, harder tests based on those standards and for teacher evaluations tied to students» performance on the exams.

The study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.

A new study published in PLOS ONE confirms this, finding that performance gaps between male and female students increased or decreased based on whether instructors emphasized or de-emphasized the value of exams.

«Performance - based funding in community colleges hinders success of at risk students.»

«About 28 percent of the students in our sample would have actually procured no performance - based funding for the college.»

«What we found was that African - American students, older adults, students who attend part - time, those who had a GED versus a high school diploma and those assigned to the lowest level of developmental education brought significantly less performance - based funding to the institution,» McKinney said.

Since the mid-2000s, performance funding programs, which fund colleges based on institutional «output» measures — including retention and graduation rates — rather than «inputs» such as the number of students enrolled, have gained in popularity.

In a 7 - year study at a Boston elementary school where half the students are English Language Learners (ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

In general, this review of the published evidence suggest that school - based yoga programs may be helpful in reducing student and teacher stress and increasing mood, health, performance and pro-social behavior.

«We are looking forward to sharing Lover For a Day with arthouse crowds, fans of Garrel and French cinema, as well as younger audiences / students who can relate to the two protagonists — especially Esther Garrel's growing fan base given the break - out year she has had, with an impressive performance in Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name in addition to her leading role in Lover For a Day,» commented Kasman.

We also generated measures of cultural exposure for these students based on the number of performances they had seen with their schools at the Walton Arts Center.

Reporting out: Reporting out of students» performance should be based not on the counting of points but on the analysis of the data collected for each student within a reporting cycle.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

Each public school is assigned a grade based on the performance of its students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in reading, math, and writing.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

Two conclusions from recent PISA studies are that increased national performance is associated with greater equity in the distribution of educational resources and that equity can be undermined when school choice segregates students into schools based on socioeconomic background.

Opting out adds noise to the data, which increases the amount of variability in the teacher performance measures because each teacher's score is based on fewer students.

In particular, we take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of students: those who wanted to attend a charter school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained in traditional public schools.

The White House «fact sheet» on America's College Promise lists what states and colleges would have to do: participating colleges would have to «adopt promising and evidence - based institutional reforms to improve student outcomes,» while states would have to coordinate high schools, community colleges, and four - year schools to reduce remediation rates and, to create incentives to improve, «allocate a significant portion of funding based on performance, not enrollment alone.»

He criticizes the federal law for basing school accountability on a single year's test scores and holding schools accountable for the performance of transient students.

Students will also be introduced to the interactive web - based energy calculator, Home Energy Saver, a professional level tool that is used in predicting building performance in terms of energy in order to assist not only in design, but also in policy - making.

In contrast to earlier tests that were mostly «based on the nouns, measuring what students knew,» claims Justin, «what we're now measuring [on CCSS assessments] is the verbs, which live in the land of performance assessment.

In general, a performance - based assessment measures students» ability to apply the skills and knowledge learned from a unit or units of study.

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.

Teachers received bonuses based on the overall performance of all tested students in their school, rather than just on the performance of students in their own classrooms.

Evaluations led by Harvard's Tom Kane and MIT's Josh Angrist have used this lottery - based method to convince most skeptics that the impressive test - score performance of the Boston charter sector reflects real differences in school quality rather than the types of students charter schools serve.

What I found is that schools that exceed expectations — as well as those that are making significant improvement from a base of overall poor performance — engage in the extensive practice of six research - informed instructional strategies and develop a culture that communicates high expectations and support for all students.

Currently, more school districts and universities are seeking authentic measures of student learning, and performance - based assessments have become increasingly relevant.

• Work with client schools to administer NAEP (or some other matrix - based test aligned to the standards) to 2,000 students each year in key grade levels; use their performance to set the curve for the summative test (think of this as «Curriculum NAEP,» the equivalent of the current state NAEP testing).

In place of a school report that judges and reports student performance two or three times each year, this information might be provided on a more ongoing basis — perhaps with the assistance of technology — and form the basis of two - way (or three - way) conversations about student progress.

However, the implementation of NCLB has perverted standards - based accountability by narrowing the curriculum, limiting the ways in which student performance is assessed, and constraining pedagogy.

The NEPC report paints a dismal picture of student learning at K12 - operated schools, but the fatal flaw of the report is that the measures of «performance» it employs are based primarily on outcomes such as test scores that may reveal more about student background than about the quality of the school, and on inappropriate comparisons between virtual schools and all schools in the same state.

Under IMPACT, the district sets detailed standards for high - quality instruction, conducts multiple observations, assesses individual performance based on evidence of student progress, and retains and rewards teachers based on annual ratings.

Supporters of the common core standards have also been concerned that the base of support could erode when the first results are released from the new assessments designed to measure student performance against them.