Sentences with phrase «compare against student»

It is the first version of «the nation's report card» written entirely in Spanish for students taught primarily in that language, which will allow those scores to be compared against students...

Not exact matches

By comparing a student's transcripts against a database of tens of millions of past student records, Brightspace's Degree Compass feature can tell what letter grade he or she will get in any given course with 92 % accuracy — before the first class starts.

The benefit of comparing the Journey ® Student Rewards from Capital One ® against its competitors is that we get a better sense of its worth and value relative to its peers.

If you are against it, you are saying that only certain religions should be emphasized, not all taught for the students to compare for themselves.

Belger, the director of the UNC Neurocognition and Imaging Research Laboratory, and recent UNC graduate student Joseph Shaffer, PhD, compared brain scans from more than 100 people with schizophrenia against brain scans from people with no psychiatric diagnoses.

Out of the 777 marketing students studied over a five - year period, 86.1 per cent waited until the last 24 hours to hand in their work at only a slight cost on average score against early submitters at 64.04 compared to 64.32.

Student's t tests excluding the outlier indicated a p - value of < 0.04 for the remaining five pandemic H1N1 samples compared with the IgG memory and germinal center (GC) cells or the primary IgG plasmablast responses (0.2 with EM included) and a p - value of < 0.0001 against the IgM populations.

Students answer a set of questions for each part of the Wheel and receive a score that can be compared against Australian norms.

The research measures the short - and long - term impacts of outdoor education by comparing the wellbeing of year 9 students who participated in purpose - designed outdoor program against those who did not.

«NAPLAN data and the My School website enables schools to compare the results of students at their school against national results for the overall population and for schools with students from the same socio - educational backgrounds.

It works against students» tendency to rank themselves and to compare themselves to or compete with one another.

It is critically important to compare exclusive suburban districts against the performance of students in other developed countries, as these districts are generally thought to be high - performing.

LA software lets you compare a student's activity with others in the program, with learners who have previously taken the course, and against the module's rubrics.

The study, published Nov. 14 by the American Institutes for Research, compares the performance of 8th graders in individual American states not against each other, but against students in top - performing foreign nations, such as Japan and South Korea, as well as against children in recent lower - scoring ones, such as Bulgaria, Jordan, and Romania.

The GRC allows users to compare student achievement in virtually every one of the nearly 14,000 school districts in the United States against the achievement in a set of 25 developed countries.

It opens the way, for the first time, to comparing student, school and district performance across the land on a credible, common metric — and gauging their achievement against that of youngsters in other countries on our shrinking and ever - more - competitive planet.

In the future, a students» performance across a variety of programs and platforms will likely give us a much richer picture of how that student is performing against state standards, as compared to a once annual high stakes test.

Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources provide opportunities to: - explore language, form and structure - assess against the 9 - 1 specification success criteria - explore the presentation of Elizabethan parents - explore the theme of power - compare the parenting of Lord and Lady Capulet - structure analytical paragraphs using WHAT, HOW, WHY instead of PEE which can restricting A structure strip is included which can be stuck into student books to guide them through an analytical comparison

Instead of comparing students to each other, based on arbitrary timetables, students can be compared against performance standards and benchmarks.

During this phase students monitor their learning, usually comparing their progress against standards set in the planning phase.

A spreadsheet that calculates component and overall grades for students and compares these grades against targets.

The students are required by their schools to submit some essays to Turnitin.com, a Web - based service that compares the documents against a massive internal database and other sources to look for signs of plagiarism.

You compare students not against each other arbitrarily, but you compare their performances against standards.»

In contrast, our recommendations are designed to support teachers to make reliable assessments of particular aspects of learning and achievement that can be compared across schools and used directly in the calculation of students» subject results and thus tertiary admissions ranks — without prior scaling against an external test or examination.

They are professionally finished, and handwritten model answers accompany the questions for students to compare their responses against.

International Benchmarking: State Education Performance Standards provides policymakers international benchmarks against which they can compare and monitor the educational performance of students.

Standardized test scores allow parents to compare the performance of their own child and the average performance of their child's school against the performance of students in the same grade in other schools around the state and nationwide.

We can tell how students are performing against a standard, and compare them to students in other schools, districts, and states.

Students in the process of becoming a teacher in North Dakota should view this table that compares the average annual salaries of different teaching positions in North Dakota against the national average using information provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The team has developed an innovative method of comparing results for charter students against their «virtual twins» in district schools, and translating hard - to - understand standard deviation measures into a more easily digestible «additional days of learning.»

Yes, achievements tests help us know not only how students are performing against criteria but also how they are performing compared to their peer group.

To allow teachers, students and parents to compare individual student performance against aggregate results from within that student's class;

Her testimony was reported by PJMedia, which said she warned against comparing test scores of American children with Chinese students.

The purpose of norms is to establish a baseline against which a student's score can be compared.

This is then compared against the lists students make

Researchers compared students who had won lotteries to enter KIPP schools against students in the lotteries who lost out.

Sac High students outperformed all of their district peers in Algebra I and World History, when compared against high schools with enrollment of 800 or more students.

Even before you get started preparing students for their assessments, it's very important to know where your learners are compared to the standards against they will be assessed.

Student draw what they think each graph will look like, then animate the bike and compare their hypotheses against the graphs that unfold.

In short, by responding to actual student writing, comparing their responses to those made by a member of their professional community, weighing his commentary on computerized grading against their own evaluations, and responding to this issue from a professional standpoint, teacher candidates using this path are invited to frame teacher response to student writing in the context of the current professional issue of machine scoring.

Success criteria give students a means for comparing their present performance against the destination.

Critics of international comparisons, including many practitioners and a number of researchers, argue that it is impossible to accurately compare US students» performance against that of their international peers because the students selected by their respective countries vary widely in their demographic makeup (not all countries include language learners and students with disabilities in their samples) and the sample size of students from various socioeconomic groups can vary widely.

The district intends to compare spring 2016 SAT scores against students» fall 2015 PSAT scores.

Because a teacher can not influence how much the student knew at the beginning of the year, comparing end - of - year performance will work against teachers whose children began the year with less knowledge or skill.

IRT rates the difficulty for each item by comparing the likelihood of students correctly getting some items against others.

Krawiec's email compares the number of teachers allotted on the basis of students in grades K - 3 in FY 2012 - 13 against the number of teachers allotted on the basis of students in grades K - 3 in FY 2016 - 17 (despite what the email says, the 26,671.5 figure comes from FY 2016 - 17).

The state plans to use a measure called «student growth percentiles,» in which a child's progress is compared against other children with similar achievement levels.

And we should be able to compare test scores for students who have been at a school for several years against scores for newcomers.

The approach has its limits, but the basic idea is to compare the students in each school against students who started the year at the same academic level and see how they gained or not on the state tests in language arts and math.

Many researchers argue that adjusting for student demographic characteristics is unnecessary because the growth scores are calculated by comparing students against themselves.