Sentences with phrase «better exam results»

But sometimes it is your lifestyle choices that can lead to more productive revision and ultimately better exam results.

They will point to the long - term benefits for both pupils and society, and will argue against viewing SEL as merely a means of achieving better exam results.

The Education Minister Huw Lewis hopes it will improve standards in the classroom and lead to better exam results.

Some schools open their doors to poor and harder to educate children, while others play fast and loose with the admissions code to ensure they get better exam results.

Well, this is precisely where good training is crucial; if you have a good grounding in educational psychology, philosophy and history, you won't be flattered by your good exam results.

Sometimes these teachers can get very good exam results because their students follow their instructions carefully, but I worry that their pupils haven't really learnt much beyond absorbing the message that you get on by copying the teacher.

• A new intergenerational study shows that for 76 % of 15 - 17 year olds, studying hard for good exam results is their biggest priority for the coming year; and they are preparing to sacrifice friendships, family time, hobbies and even sleep to achieve this, • In fact 57 % of 15 - 17 year olds feel school work must come before anything else if they want to do well in the future • And only 39 % of this age group think being happy is more important than good grades • Yet half (51 %) of UK business leaders calls on teens to develop broader life / work skills before leaving education A new report launched today by National Citizen Service (NCS) reveals that the UK ¹ s 15 - 17 year olds feel under significant pressure to excel in exams at the expense of other life skills, experiences, healthy relationships and even their own happiness, suggesting that they are struggling to juggle the demands of young adulthood.

There are many barriers to post-school success besides getting good exam results.

It says this may be because these pupils are more likely to get good exam results and to go to a top university.

The college said Mr Moore had successfully raised academic standards, producing the best exam results in recent college history.

«Students in alternative provision are far less likely to achieve good exam results, find well - paid jobs or go on to further study,» said Halfon.

It reopened three weeks ago, with new principal Barry Smith saying his new rules would ensure pupils «leave achieving really good exam results».

But inspectors warned that GCSE teaching focused on achieving good exam results and that this did not always prepare pupils for study at a more advanced level.

Academic research from Simon Burgess, a professor of economics at Bristol University, recently showed that pupils with additional languages tend to make more academic progress than other groups and that good exam results in London «did appear to be accounted for» by the increased number of pupils with English as an additional language.

Stephen Shamie, managing partner at labour and employment firm Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP, confirms the best way to impress is at the interview stage, since it goes without saying students who make it through the door will have good exam results.

Understandably, rates of mental ill - health are high, because the pressure to get good exam results and to choose the right university course, the worry about finding a job you can build a life on (or just live on), and a place to live, are damaging.

Not exact matches

Specifically, for fathers, higher expectations about their children's educational level, and greater level / frequency of interest and direct involvement in children's learning, education and schools, are associated strongly with better educational outcomes for their children, including: • better exam / test / class results • higher level of educational qualification • greater progress at school • better attitudes towards school (e.g. enjoyment) • higher educational expectations • better behaviour at school (e.g. reduced risk of suspension or expulsion)(for discussion / review of all this research, see Goldman, 2005).

... Students who do well on AP exams tend to do better in college and have higher graduation rates, but it is unclear whether this is a direct result of the AP program.

According to Tough, who has investigated everything from neuroscience to educational psychology to discover the true predictors of high achievement, as a society we are so preoccupied by exam results that we are not bringing out the best in our children.

Will the Minister accept that this experiment is failing, because it is not providing fair assessment, and look again at how best to obtain accurate results in these important exams for young people?

Leaving aside the question of whether this is simply due to easier exams, it's clear that this increased «attainment» is not resulting in greater employability — so the reported 65 % increase in education funding since Labour came to power can not be judged a good investment, by any stretch of the imagination.

These demographic correlations are a feature of standardized exams more generally (e.g., Helms 2009)[11] and may well be the result of stereotype threat, the fear of confirming negative stereotypes about one's own group (Steele & Aronson 1995)[12], [13].

In a recent dissertation at Uppsala University, Uppsala University Hospital radiology nurse Camilla Andersson demonstrates how with simple means, medical care can easily improve the patient experience and most likely the result of the exam as well.

Christian Blower, the union's leader, said that the «excessive focus on exam results is bad for pupils, bad for teachers and it is clearly the antithesis of what NUT members believe to be a good education».

[02:31] Rebecca Vukovic: I also read in the study that you found: leaders who talk a good game, but have no impact; leaders who make everything look great while they're there, but everything falls apart when they leave; and leaders who could improve the schools» long - term financial standing, but exam results stay the same.

And «are you cutting simply to make this year's exam results look good?

Exam regulator Ofqual have explained that there will be «significant improvements» to the process of appealing against GCSE and A-level results, with proposals for a better system announced later this month.

About 55 to 60 per cent go on and take their [school leaving exams], or Abitur as we say in Germany, which is a really good result for an area like ours.

The views of secondary students continued to be positive in post residential, with two thirds or more of respondents thinking that as a result of the residential they would make better progress in their subject (71 per cent), had a better understanding of the subject (70 per cent), they were better at problem solving (67 per cent) and would do better in their exams / tests (66 per cent).

Carl Hendrick, head of research at Wellington College, said: «We've become very good at measuring performance in terms of exam results but very bad at measuring more difficult things like learning, self - perception and mindsets.

To assess how well Florida performed relative to the rest of the nation, one can use the results for initial 3rd - grade students on the FCAT to rescale the state's 4th - grade scores on the NAEP reading exam.

There are students who have made such a good results in board exams though they were earlier dropout for three - four years.

At an international education conference, Gove said that migrant parents had «high expectations» for their children and that London school's have performed better than the rest of England in exams as a result of this.

Around three - quarters of parents revealed that they would choose a school where children are happy, even if past exam results have not been good.

Females achieved better results than males in all IT - related exams except the Computing A-levels, where males performed better.

But how can technology be utilised to improve exam results and help a few more teachers sleep better during the months of June and July?

The Exam Results Helpline is staffed by the country's best independent and highly experienced careers advisers.

Teachers often talk to us about the impact on pupils» behaviour when they've had a proper lunch rather than filling up on foods full of empty calories, and smaller studies comparing exam results at schools with breakfast clubs to those at schools without found pupils got better results where healthy breakfasts were on offer.

Commenting on the grand opening, Lord Sugar, said: «Principal, Andrew Hemmings and his team have done an outstanding job turning the school around and making it Hertfordshire's most improved school and a true exemplar of best practice in education — their exam results speak for themselves.

As a result of our research, insight and delivery through programmes such as Get Exam Fit, Girls Active and My Personal Best and our national partnerships with Young Minds and the New Economics Foundation; we now have an increased understanding of what wellbeing issues persist in young people.

While the overall results for U.S. students on this year's PISA exam were not good, some individual high schools got good news about the performance of their students on the test.

The STEM results aren't much better: The best - performing state was Massachusetts, and even there, just 16 % of graduating students had passed an AP STEM exam.

Grindon Hall pupils are noted locally for their good manners and excellent exam results which makes me question how accurate these Ofsted reports are and what sort of agenda Ofsted have before they enter these schools.

«Although exam results are often good, the curriculum has become too narrow, reflecting the personal views of a small number of governors, rather than the wider community in Birmingham and beyond,» he said.

Results indicate that for seven of the nine subject areas, students with a mean AP Exam grade of 3 or better significantly outperformed the reference group of non-examinees in the relevant subject area.

As a result, last month nearly 2,400 pupils who took English with the exam board received better results.

Scores in math, reading and science posted by 15 - year - olds in the United States were flat while their counterparts elsewhere — particularly in Shanghai, Singapore and other Asian provinces or countries — soared, according to the results of a well - regarded international exam released Tuesday.

Location, well - qualified teachers and community links are more important to parents with a lower household income whilst discipline, exam results and the effectiveness of the school's senior leadership team are more important to parents with a higher household income.

As well as the internal review into marking, the exam board said schools and exam centres could still challenge individual results, using the traditional appeal route.

And after computer glitches during the administration of spring exams had state education officials asking for an outside review of the results, a 2.5 percent increase in pass rates seems like the best possible scenario.