Districts, states, and schools can, at least in theory, generate gains in
educational outcomes for students using value - added measures in three ways: creating information on effective programs, making better decisions about human resources, and establishing incentives for higher performance from teachers.
Not exact matches
Charter schools are not new to education, having been developed as early as the 1800s, but they are newly
used as a reform strategy designed to improve
educational outcomes for K — 12
students.
In Making school meaningful
for Indigenous learners Ailsa MacFie
uses a body of research, plus her own experiences as a teacher in a high Aboriginal population boarding school in the Northern Territory, to provide practical tools
for teachers wanting to improve
educational outcomes for Indigenous
students.
With guidance from Harvard faculty and district and community leaders, participants study best practices in family engagement and identify strategies they can
use to promote
student learning and improve
educational outcomes for all.
«Inclusive education strengthens all
students and communities by reducing
educational fragmentation and providing a school environment in which all the resources are
used to improve
outcomes for all the kids,» said Riley.
«There's been a lot of research done [around the world]... on school turnaround,
using sample schools and whole districts, to look at what are the key elements that will turn around
educational outcomes for students.
«At the heart of the report is a vision
for using these technologies to promote equity of
educational outcomes and career opportunities
for students facing disadvantage.»
to develop strategies
used by school staff — administrators, support staff and teachers — to improve
educational, behavioral and health
outcomes for all
students, enumerating those factors at the school, classroom and community levels
Researchers
used composite achievement results from the 2012 Programme
for International
Student Assessment, or PISA, as the performance metric, and weighed those scores against 63 «inputs,» or factors that could influence
educational outcomes, such as teaching materials and technology, the quality of school buildings, and teacher training.
We recommend the
use of a coordinated, coherent, evidence based instructional system linked to
educational outcomes needed
for student success at next education / training level (integrated standards, curriculum, instructional materials, assessments etc.).
Not only have multiple Department of Education (
USED) studies concluded that the program has failed to improve
educational outcomes for participating
students, but two U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports have also identified its repeated management and accountability failures.»
Their emphasis was on providing «productive learning conditions
for all
students in each school»
using measures of
educational inputs and
outcomes based on eight requirements
for effective accountability:
For instance, if there is a set of classrooms that are using some new piece of educational software, we should be able to go out and find other classrooms that have very similar students, that have students with similar prior achievement, similar demographics and so forth, and then just track them over time and just automatically report the differences in outcomes for the students receiving the software and then the comparison group of students that aren
For instance, if there is a set of classrooms that are
using some new piece of
educational software, we should be able to go out and find other classrooms that have very similar
students, that have
students with similar prior achievement, similar demographics and so forth, and then just track them over time and just automatically report the differences in
outcomes for the students receiving the software and then the comparison group of students that aren
for the
students receiving the software and then the comparison group of
students that aren't.
With an increasing call to address disparities of
outcomes among
student groups and to eliminate predictable achievement and success gaps,
educational leaders will benefit by
using the LEAD Tool to reflect on their practice, assess their skills, and develop their strategies
for equity.
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outcomes for each
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