Sentences with phrase «even gains in student achievement»

Early adopters of the practice report dramatic declines in school discipline problems, as well as improved climates on campuses and even gains in student achievement.

Not exact matches

Working with data from the State of Florida, I have regularly noticed that achievement gains by students who move from one public school to another badly trail the gains of students who remain in the same school — even after one has adjusted for many family background characteristics.

Measures of teachers» value added in previous years are an even better predictor of future gains in students» achievement than are principal ratings.

However, it is also clear that the initial achievement hit these students take is not offset by gains in subsequent years, so that even this group, which is harmed least by attending a charter school, still has lower levels of achievement as a result of attending a charter school.

And in fact, students with disabilities have made almost no gains in reading since 2002 — even though NCLB focuses specifically on boosting the achievement of this subgroup of students.

Schools will also be recognized for putting together the key ingredients of an effective program, even if they have not yet shown gains in student achievement.

Achievement gains accrue even to the most disadvantaged students: students who had been in a substantially separate classroom in BPS and students who had the lowest test scores among special education students.

This suggests an alternative criterion by which to judge changes in student performance - namely, that achievement gains on test items that measure particular skills or understandings may be meaningful even if the student's overall test score does not fully generalize to other exams.

When the overall population contains a greater share of students from lower - performing racial / ethnic groups, then achievement must go up even more to produce gains in the average score for all students.

As reflected in Figure 1, achievement gains for students identified as having disabilities have been dramatic in many grades, with no decrease or even plateauing of performance among the general student population.

A. Even though they have been shown to produce the largest gains in student achievement, few states have invested in assessments that use student portfolios or more involved projects, beyond simplistic multiple - choice exams.

Students also demonstrated significant gains in mathematics achievement, even when math was not the focus of the program.

Yet given these limitations, the results were striking: even when analyzing the achievement of third graders who had the benefits of a smaller class for only one year, as compared to those who were in large classes, the gains were substantial, especially for disadvantaged students in inner - city schools.

Philadelphia's experience with outsourcing the management of 45 schools showed that even with additional expenditures, student achievement gains were no greater in those managed by outside organizations than in those remaining under district management (Gill, Zimmer, Christman, & Blanc, 2007).

But time is what many principals are competing with when state and federal lawmakers, state departments of education, and even parents demand swift, significant gains in student achievement.

The study couldn't show how many of the books the students actually read, but the students who sent in reading logs answering brief questions about the books showed even stronger achievement gains.