Sentences with phrase «characteristics of the students»

We also control for teacher experience as well as for class and school characteristics, including class size and the academic performance and demographic characteristics of all students in the relevant classroom and school.

However, the common learning characteristics of students with autism make certain accommodations, supports and strategies extremely relevant.

A sizable proportion of charter schools are designed to serve special populations, though most reflect the demographic characteristics of students in their geographic area.

Some performance differences between schools may be related to the socioeconomic composition of the school's student population or other characteristics of the student body.

Her decision reflects a value judgment, and may depend on other characteristics of the student.

They are a product of the socio - economic characteristics of the students taking the test.

Will these schools be punished in any way, despite the unique characteristics of their student population?

Students create and complete a questionnaire about the physical and personal characteristics of the students in their class.

Researchers spoke to faculty in the schools involved to identify characteristics of students for the study.

Teacher mobility is more affected by characteristics of the students (income, race, and achievement) than by salary schedules.

Make learning relevant, meaningful, and tied to the generational characteristics of your students.

For a truly great academic experience, we need to think ever more deeply about how to respond to the individual characteristics of each student.

He also pointed out that differences in achievement are largely due to how we teach, rather than to any innate characteristics of students.

This was followed in 1975 by detailed guidelines for determining the language characteristics of students and appropriate educational responses to those characteristics.

We do need to consider the different subject content, learning styles, home environments and contextual characteristics of students when designing assessment methodologies.

In one instance, both teachers used videos for assessment but made different decisions about how to do so based upon the unique characteristics of their students.

The tasks in the exams may be different depending on the subject, personal characteristics of students and also on their educational level.

These findings persist, even after I account for a variety of other characteristics of students, teachers, and classrooms that may influence student learning.

As a result, simple comparisons of student outcomes in municipal, stand - alone, and network schools might give misleading estimates of the impact of schools on student achievement, even after adjusting for the measured characteristics of the students who attend each type of school.

These systems can be used to target interventions based on profiles of characteristics of students who fail academically and drop out of school, though at this point, relatively few states or districts have reports available to principals and teachers multiple times a year.

There is an additional input,, which corresponds to unmeasured characteristics of the students in classroom A. Simplify notation by writing the function as Let denote the domain of the input arguments.

Is grit a malleable characteristic of students that schools can be held accountable for influencing?

The focus will be on the developmental, cognitive, language, perceptual, social, academic, and behavioral characteristics of students with mild and moderate disabilities.

GAO's analysis of characteristics of student loan debt using data from the Departments of Education (Education), Treasury, and the Social Security Administration (SSA) from fiscal years 2001 - 2015 showed that for older borrowers subject to offset for the first time, about 43 percent had held their student loans for 20 years or more.

While a fair amount of evidence suggests that value - added measures adequately adjust for differences in the background characteristics of students in each teacher's classroom — much better than do most other measures — value - added measures are imprecise.

Admittedly, even though we controlled for student baseline scores and demographics, mean characteristics of students at the classroom level, and teachers» prior value - added, we could be overstating effects of textbooks, if the schools using certain textbooks are systematically different in some unmeasured way.

I want to make clear that I think there's a lot to Anti-Federalist and Tea - Party Criticism, but you do have this objection characteristic of the students of Jaffa:....

Two pronounced characteristics of our students are their ethnicity — 86 % of the UTEP population is of Mexican - American origin — and their lack of exposure to higher education — most are the first in their families to attend a university.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

Teachers may prefer to teach in schools where they share the ethnic characteristics of students, or they may find it easier to obtain a position if administrators prefer instructors who have certain ethnic characteristics.

Especially noteworthy is the fact that data are available from the same student in two different subjects taken from two different teachers, which enables us to account for educationally relevant characteristics of students that can not be ascertained by conventional background characteristics.

Because the students in charter schools are self - selected, however, this difference could be attributable to one or more unmeasured characteristics of the students rather than to the fact that they are in a charter school.

CREDO controlled for the unique characteristics of students enrolled in virtual charter schools by comparing their performance to a «virtual twin,» a student with the same demographic characteristics and similar prior achievement enrolled in a traditional public school.

We can place each student in a classroom and school so we know about the demographic and educational characteristics of students» schoolmates as well as the size of their class.

The authors of the North Carolina study attempt to control for hard - to - measure permanent characteristics of students who attend charters by estimating what is known as student «fixed effect» models, which involves measuring how student performance changes as students switch between the charter and traditional sectors.

A teacher effect may in part reflect sorting of students to teachers, with persistent differences across teachers in characteristics of the students entering their classes.

Disadvantage in education is a function of both the socio - economic characteristics of students, but also of the average socio - economic characteristics of their schools.

Maybe that is why high school GPA is a better predictor of first - year college success and overall college persistence than the SAT when controlling for wealth characteristics of the students (Atkinson & Geiser, 2009).

Teacher demand, teacher and principal characteristics, general conditions in schools, principals» and teachers» perceptions of school climate and problems in their schools, teacher compensation, district hiring and retention practices, basic characteristics of the student population

The increased number of students with learning disabilities who are served in inclusive general education classrooms, combined with the evolving characteristics of this student population, create a need to enhance the theoretically sound TPACK framework.

One of the primary characteristics of students in the millennial culture is their comfort with and consistent use of technology on a daily basis (Parette, Huer, & Scherer, 2004; U.S. Department of Education, 2004).

Education scholar Richard Rothstein described their results: «No analyst has been able to attribute less than two - thirds of the variation in achievement among schools to the family characteristics of their students.»

In other words, the result may be driven by the unobservable characteristics of the students who attend charter schools, rather than the actual effect of the charter school themselves.