Sentences with phrase «exam performance»

The results from the study show that exposure to pollen has a major effect on exam performance for pupils with pollen allergies.

An extensive body of literature supports the effectiveness of active learning over traditional lectures for student exam performance and comprehension.

One well - designed study showed that writing about testing worries prior to taking the exam boosts exam performance in the classroom.

Exam performance anxiety can be so intense — that our ability to recall the material we studied for the exam is diminished.

Secondary schools bands are based on GCSE exam performance, but also take into account other factors such as attendance and the number of children receiving free school meals.

However, many head teachers have voiced concerns that this may have a negative effect on exam performance.

The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.

Items on the SRLTAS specifically address the perceived social consequences of exam performance as important but understudied element of TA.

We find that allowing any computer usage in the classroom — even with strict limitations — reduces students» average final - exam performance by roughly one - fifth of a standard deviation.

«At first glance, one might assume the differences in exam performance are based on academic ability.

Active learning also improves exam performance — in some cases enough to change grades by half a letter or more so a B - plus, for example, becomes an A-minus.

Simon Bensnes at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Department of Economics is writing his doctoral dissertation on education economics, and has studied the interplay between pollen levels and exam performance among secondary pupils.

«Gender gap discovered in science exam performance: Test difficulty may be the cause.»

This is also called exam performance anxiety.

First, I conducted an analysis on 3rd grade students» language background and state exam performance in English language arts and mathematics.

Schools that offer both IB and AP courses were eligible for gold and silver medals based on their AP exam performance if they passed Steps 1 - 3.

Detailed information about your students» exam performance at Cambridge IGCSE is now available through Results Analysis.

«What I'm most proud of is that great exam performance sits alongside great sport, music, and arts at Hethersett, and that our sixth formers have a well - rounded education that helps them move on to some of the best universities.

This interpretation is further supported by use of phrases such as «Effect of School Type on Forward Exam Performance,» elsewhere in the report.»

Click here for more information about credentialing exam performance and employment status of program graduates.

And Richard Sander's groundbreaking Stanford - Law - Review article described how combined LSAT scores and undergraduate G.P.A.s have a predictive value for bar exam performance of 35 percent.

Exam performance data 2010 published by the DfE to provide parents with more information about school performance and expenditure.

The latest bill, introduced Tuesday by Colorado's Democratic senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, would shift the measurement of student exam performance, moving from a model based on the raw number of students who pass math and reading tests to a «growth model» that would measure student growth over time.

Ramirez, G., Beilock, S.L. (2011) Writing about Testing Worries Boosts Exam Performance in the Classroom.

Typical fears underlying academic performance anxiety or exam performance anxiety are: Fear of not gaining admission to a high profile University, fear of disappointing parents, fear of failing in life, fear of accomplishing less than our friends or siblings etc..

Graduation from upper secondary school, however, is often based on exam performance and course credits.

«Many schools have shown that dramatic improvements in exam performance are possible and are continuing to raise standards.

Co-chaired by former cabinet minister Stephen Dorrell, it will argue that forcing local authorities to fund the schools would boost exam performance.»

Teachers are stoking parental fears about raising the stakes of student tests even as teachers have fears of their own about being yoked to student exam performance.

These findings build on recent research by Cotner and Ballen that showed that on average, women's exam performance is adversely affected by test anxiety.

At the same time, our sport inspired programmes have proven helpful to young people both in developing resilience and coping skills which can impact on improved classroom, and exam performance.

Most career advancement opportunities and educational programs rely heavily on exam performance, but there are many factors that hamper a person's ability to study effectively and pass those exams.

Nonetheless, the students in our sample do not differ greatly in terms of their exam performance from students statewide: students in the sample had average MCAS scores that were only slightly different than statewide averages among all 10th graders.

Ofqual says that students must still complete a task set by their respective exam board, but this will not be formally marked and students» grades will be based on their exam performance alone.

,» a research piece from the Fall 2017 issue of EdNext, Susan Payne Carter, Kyle Greenberg and Michael S. Walker describe the results of their study which found that allowing any computer usage in the classroom reduces students» average final - exam performance.

Specifically, white students increased by 3.2 percent, and black students increased by 6.3 percent in their exam performance.

(«Exam Performance» values are acquired from a regression model from the study and are not actual raw data.)

State laws were originally designed to regulate teacher quality by specifying minimum pre-service course - taking and exam performance.

He said: «As long as the only metric on which schools are being assessed is their exam performance, our schools will never have the incentive to take well - being as seriously as they should.»

Using student - level data on first - time students who enrolled from fall 2008 to spring 2012 in the University of Alaska (UA) system, this study provides information on the degree to which UA students are considered ready for college coursework based on their exam performance.

«As long as the only metric on which schools are being assessed is their exam performance, our schools will never have the incentive to take well - being as seriously as they should,» said Sir Anthony, vice chancellor of the University of Buckingham.

Skipping Class in College and Exam Performance: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Classroom Experiment

Accordingly, a teacher's 2018 (and 2019) evaluation will not reflect student exam performance.

And head teachers have voiced concerns this may have a negative effect on exam performance.

Eton in particular is moving towards being needs - blind, or taking pupils based on their exam performance rather than parental ability to pay.

There have been claims some schools have inflated their exam performance by putting pupils into «softer» subjects, which have been of less value to individual pupils when they leave school.