Sentences with phrase «basis of their academic performance»

At Capgemini, academics form part of our overall hiring decision but we don't screen out purely on the basis of academic performance.

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A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.

But instead of «performance indicators,» U of T's 16th - place reputation ranking is based on the «subjective judgment,» or opinions of published academics occupying senior positions at their places of research.

When children's sense of acceptance is based on their performance, whether academic, athletic, or artistic, it can lead to a fragile sense of self - esteem.

Some tasks include: Review, clean out, and notify me of important emails on a regular basis; Draft responses to important emails upon discussion and review with me Review daughters school blogs and notify me of all important dates, projects, performances; Assist in responding to emails and drafting emails to teachers on issues related to daughters Track daughters school grades and academic performance on a regular basis via a website.

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.

Chancellor Carmen Fariña is launching a new collaboration - based program to try to boost academic performance, the latest in a series of programs encouraging more school visits and meetings between teachers.

The meeting also highlights existing opportunities for academic and industrial researchers to access automated cell - based and biochemical technologies based at the Karolinska High Throughput Center; home to one of the most sophisticated, state - of - the - art, ultra-high performance liquid handling and analysis platforms in Europe.

Topics for the scientific sessions are: Single cell genomics and gene expression Genetic interactions RNAi and somatic cell genetics Protein - DNA interactions Cancer The meeting also highlights existing opportunities for academic and industrial researchers to access automated cell - based and biochemical technologies based at the Karolinska High Throughput Center; home to one of the most sophisticated, state - of - the - art, ultra-high performance liquid handling and analysis platforms in Europe.

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.

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 role of local authorities is changing dramatically, increasing pressure on school based teams, and the free school programme (an off shoot of the academies programme) has introduced competition between schools which focuses attention not just on academic performance but on the image a school wants to project.

The strategy followed by nations throughout East Asia and much of Europe has been to base admission to specific universities and academic programs (such as law and medicine) largely on students» performance on a battery of subject - specific examinations devised by a nation's ministry of education.

The logical extension of Jason's argument is that an all voucher education system would lead to a public education system where all schools would be allowed to reject students based on wealth, academic performance, and behavior.

Based on such analysis, the student may not only get an academic «diagnosis» of his or her aptitude, but also determine ways in which performance can be strengthened and improved, and gaps can be closed.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

The hallmark of the Pay for Performance pilot was paying teachers $ 1,500 bonuses for meeting measurable objectives set collaboratively with their principals and based on the academic growth of the students they taught.

In New York state, we have moved from an essentially academic approach to a system that we'll put in place in a few years based on performance assessment [including] value - added requirements, as well as the use of video and attached rubrics, that focus on the practice of teaching.

It will give one of the grants, a $ 1.45 million gift, to the Education Development Center in Newton, Mass., to help eight school districts determine whether a standards - based approach can produce «significant improvement» in students» academic performance.

Excellent Schools Detroit (ESD), a coalition of philanthropic, education, and community leaders, began grading publicly funded schools based on school climate and academic performance data in 2012.

A 2005 NCREL report draft (which we received special permission to cite for this article) finds «new evidence supporting the apparent effectiveness of online programs and schools and generally demonstrating the potential of online learning as a promising instructional intervention that can, when implemented judiciously, and with attention to «evidence - based» practices, apparently improve student academic performance.»

To create such programs, states and districts must identify the most important elements of student performance (usually academic achievement), measure them (usually with state tests), calculate change in performance on a school - by - school basis, and provide rewards to schools that meet or beat performance improvement targets — all of which must be backed by system supports that enable all schools to boost results.

Rather than purely basing performance on grades and academic performance, the use of a work board related activity can help to create an atmosphere of healthy competition where students can benefit from recognition and reward then and there.

Is it possible for students to get the same or better scores on an AP test with a well - designed project - based learning course when compared with students of similar backgrounds and prior academic performance who are taking a traditionally taught course?

Similarly, the tracking of students into classrooms based on ability or academic performance may group disadvantaged children with the most disruptive students.

Of 29 elementary schools in the district, it ranked 27th based on California's Academic Performance Index, or API, and was 190 students under capacity.

It is based mainly on student performance on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), which is administered to students in grades 3 through 8 and in grade 10.

Greenhouse Sports» intensive school - based sports programmes achieve positive behavioural change, reduce absenteeism and raise academic performance for pupils between the ages of 11 and 16, in some of London's most deprived areas, according to study.

In their portfolios, Salvin says, «teachers must have evidence of their students satisfying our critical academic skills, which are the performance standards of project - based learning at the school and the schoolwide initiatives.»

Finally, a 2017 meta - analysis of 82 school - based SEL programs found long - term (between 6 months and 18 years) improvements in four areas: SEL skills, attitudes, positive social behavior, and academic performance.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

Authors Dr. Anna Nicotera and Dr. David Stuit, respectively senior associate and co-founder of Basis Policy Research, coded charter applications for easy - to - spot indicators and used them to predict the schools» academic performance in their first years of operation.

In October 2012, it adopted a new Academic Performance Framework that subjects each of its schools to an annual review based primarily on student achievement levels and growth and clarifies that charters may be revoked well before the 15 - year contract expires.

Greenhouse Sports» intensive school - based sports programmes achieve positive behavioural change, reduce absenteeism and raise academic performance for pupils between the ages of 11 and 16, in some of London's most deprived areas, according to a study released by Loughborough University.

When using classroom data to separate students into quarters based on academic performance, the lower quarter of students had the lowest mean use of self - regulated learning skills followed by the middle quarters.

A: SGOs are based on academic performance gains of a teacher's particular students.

· Base teacher evaluations on multiple measures of performance including «value - added» data on student academic progress.

Schools seldom have coherent content standards, accountability systems based on assessments of student academic growth, or an ethic of making publicly available the performance data that do exist.

Beginning July 1, 2002 and every two years thereafter, each school district shall review and revise its description of academic intervention services based on student performance results; except that this requirement shall not apply to student performance results for the 2010 - 2011 school year, which shall be excluded from such review.

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The release Thursday of the results on the state's Academic Performance Index marks the end of a decade of judging student performance based on test scPerformance Index marks the end of a decade of judging student performance based on test scperformance based on test scores alone.

Based on performance criteria established by the commissioner, certain school districts may be required to submit their description of academic intervention services for specific schools to the department for review and approval.

Direct - to - student programs and changes in instructional practices have been linked to long - term gains in academic performance and reductions in achievement gaps on the basis of race / ethnicity, gender, and being the first in one's family to go to college.

Decisions about licensure, and presumably tenure, would be based on — and here's where things get tricky — «observations of candidates» performance in real - time classroom settings and demonstrated effectiveness in supporting students» academic growth.»

For more than a decade, we used the Academic Performance Index (API), which was based solely on test scores and established 800 as proficient on a scale of 200 to 1000.

Performance Pay: «Do you favor or oppose basing the salaries of teachers, in part, on their students» academic progress on state tests?»

We have also worked with the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) to develop an «academic performance framework» authorizers can use to identify high - and low - performing schools based on clear criteria.

One of the first large - scale studies to look at how culturally based education influences academic performance was published by Education Northwest (Demmert & Towner, 2003).

AB 2512 would require that data from schools be included in the Academic Performance Index showing their compliance with Title IX, the 1972 federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex.

Rather, it says schools would be placed in one of five performance categories based on student achievement and progress in reading and math, how well a school closes gaps between groups of students in academic achievement and in graduation rates, and on overall attendance and graduation rates.