Sentences with phrase «by achievement test»

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

Teachers» assessment of children's academic diligence may be affected by their achievement test scores or by other information that may not closely relate to children's diligence.

There are important dimensions of teacher, school, and program quality that are not captured by achievement test results.

I always understood that achievement tests were only a partial and imperfect indicator of school quality, but I used to believe that other aspects of school quality not captured by achievement tests were largely correlated with those test results.

The content of the two types of tests is related in that readiness tests more or less reflect earlier versions of skills that are assessed by achievement tests at more advanced levels later.

Such questions are not addressed by achievement tests or answered by looking at graduation rates.

Our results provide a clear example that caution is needed when interpreting estimated teacher effects because there is the potential for teacher performance to depend on the skills that are measured by the achievement tests.

Not exact matches

Some conservatives are not above signaling, in more or less overt ways, their belief that blacks can never pass [the test of achievement by merit], and that there is little point in the rest of society bearing guilt for blacks» failures.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

Improve students» achievement test scores across the spectrum by an average of 11 percentile points.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

The student shall take any nationally normed student achievement test administered by a certified teacher;

By contrast, achievement scores on the Woodcock Word, Passage, and Reading Comprehension tests were higher for breastfed than for bottle - fed children (Table 4).

Earlier this year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo sought to change the agreement by calling for an increased emphasis on student achievement on tests, much to the dismay of NYSUT.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

Betty Rosa, the Regents chancellor and a former New York City school administrator, noted the current evaluation law has created a situation under which teachers in fields not covered by state tests, such as physical education, often find themselves rated on the basis of student achievement in areas that are tested, such as English and math.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

In 2011, the second year of more rigorous scoring of state standardized tests, achievement dipped slightly across the state, according to figures just released by the state education department.

The most high - profile international test is the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a survey of the educational achievement of 15 - year - olds organised by the OECD.

But those results were widely criticized by educators and software makers for lumping together the outcomes from many different products and for testing their impact on student achievement in the 1st year the teacher had used the material.

Students» self - reported emotions were measured by questionnaires, and their achievement was assessed by year - end grades and scores on a math achievement test.

Social and economic inequality, not just formal instruction, strongly affects test scores, and «achievement is known to vary significantly by socioeconomic class and race.»

«Over the past decade we've been able to identify a growing number of educational interventions that have managed to have notable impacts on students» academic achievement as measured by standardized tests,» West says.

The children took standard achievement tests and were rated by teachers.

A study matching newborn glucose concentration screening results with fourth - grade achievement test scores suggests that early transient newborn hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) was associated with lower test scores at age 10, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

This achievement marks the first big test of a new analysis method that can speed up genome assembly by compressing the raw sequence data 100-fold.

Scholarly articles published by over 20 researchers in Monographs, titled «The Relation of Childhood Physical Activity to Brain Health, Cognition and Scholastic Achievement» indicate that while physical activity in schools has diminished in part because of a growing emphasis on student performance and academic testing, decreased physical activity is actually related to decreased academic performance.

At Brain Balance Achievement Centers, we assess all of these skills with standardized and accepted testing and we quantify them by grade, age, or functional level.

The failure was exemplified by high drop - out rates, dismal national test scores in math, reading, and other subjects, as well as widening achievement gaps.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

Results of the study indicate that LTTA students perform better on math computation and estimation (as measured by the Canadian Achievement Test, CAT · 3) compared to students in similar non-LTTA schools.

For instance, in an April 28, 2004, column, Winerip described a school in Florida as unfairly penalized by NCLB, but he failed to mention that the school reported low overall test scores and had significant achievement gaps between white and minority students.

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

The study by the Educational Policy Institute, released Aug. 11, examined the scores on the Stanford Achievement Test 9 or 10 given to 1,800 5th graders at 24 KIPP schools in the fall of 2003, and again in either...

In its report, Incentives and Test - Based Accountability in Education, the committee says that NCLB and state accountability systems have been so ineffective at lifting student achievement that accountability as we know it should probably be dropped by federal and state governments alike.

Fourteen of the 4th graders at Washington, D.C.'s Hope Community Charter School had chosen the right answer — 1/3 and 5/15 — on a test written for the school by Boston - based Achievement Network (ANet).

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.

Coleman found that variation in school resources (as measured by per - pupil spending and student - to - teacher ratios) was unrelated to variation in student achievement on standardized tests.

For example, a quasi-experimental study by the Educational Testing Service found that teachers with a high level of engagement in a large - scale mentoring program (California Formative Assessment and Support System for Teachers) improved both teaching practices and student achievement, producing an effect size equivalent to half a year's growth (Thompson, Goe, Paek, and Ponte, 2004).

The student component of NELS includes additional outcome data for the subjects taught by each sampled teacher, including the results from multiple - choice achievement tests.

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) Chariman, Professor Barry McGaw, welcomed the announcement, saying its research confirmed that online delivery of NAPLAN tests, tailored by the computer to students» level of achievement, works well and is more engaging for students.

Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point gains in achievement on state reading and math tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2025 for all students and student subgroups

Achievement: Student groups currently scoring below benchmark (scale scores below 750 on current state tests) will be expected to close the gap to 750 by 25 percent within 5 years.

Opened by two teachers in 1994 and named Time magazine's «Elementary School of the Year» in 2001, the school reports that its scores on the Stanford Achievement test have jumped 97 percent since 1997.

Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.

On the other hand, we did not meet our goal to shrink by a significant margin the achievement gap (as measured by state - level standardized tests) as was our hope.

For example, David Sims has shown that after a 2001 Wisconsin law required schools to open after Labor Day, districts forced to delay their start dates saw their students» achievement on the state math test fall relative to districts that were unaffected by the law.

This issue's research section offers a first - of - its - kind study examining the impact of instructor quality on student achievement in the higher education sector — finding that students taught by above - average instructors receive higher grades and test scores, are more likely to succeed in subsequent courses, and earn more college credits.

We can't fix the limits of math and reading achievement tests by adding mandatory «grit» surveys or other measures.