Sentences with phrase «exam performance if»

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.

Not exact matches

To see if your gifted child could benefit from some summer programming, ask the school district if they'd be willing to test your child with the end - of - the - year performance exams for the year your child is skipping.

Even when these challenges are met, one can not be entirely sure of the results, as exit exams may influence student and school performance even before they come into effect, if teachers and students know that they will soon be introduced, which is usually the case.

The typical incentive program for teachers is pay - per - performance: teachers are promised money if their students perform in certain ways on an exam.

In terms of policy, one might speculate that if a nation assesses the performance of students with some sort of national exam and uses this information to monitor teachers, teachers will put aside their other interests and focus mainly on raising student achievement.

We have two different interventions and what we're looking at is, on one arm, to see if delaying the school start time — starting lessons at 10 am versus 9 am — if that improves academic performance in GCSE exams (which people take in the UK when they're about 16).

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.

In the meantime, all school leaders should know that if lots of pupils switch exam entries, or lots of pupils work at the borderline of performance measures, they are more likely to see great leaps in results, but also reductions.

Basically, its provisions are as follows: If a prospective teacher who has a baccalaureate or advanced degree in an academic major other than education passes the appropriate certification exams and background checks and is hired by a school district to teach in the subject area of preparation in grades 8 - 12, the candidate will be granted a probationary certificate for a maximum of two years, at the end of which time the school district decides, based on the teacher's performance, whether or not to recommend the issuance of full standard certification.

Even if states transition to a performance - based assessment, if they fail to set a meaningful cut score and eliminate other duplicative tests, they will inevitably rely on an exam that is insufficiently rigorous and even more costly and time - consuming.

If extremely low, declining performance on math and reading exams alone were enough to trigger state support, the number of California districts that could expect special state help would almost...

If extremely low, declining performance on math and reading exams alone were enough to trigger state support, the number of California districts that could expect it would almost double from 228 to more than 400, a CALmatters analysis shows.

Measuring a learner's performance on quizzes and final exams will tell you if there are knowledge gaps that are consistently being missed in the training, which may lead to course redevelopment.

But education expert Professor Alan Smithers says: «If young people are doing very well at 14 or 15, it could be that the GCSE exam hasn't caught up with the improvement in performance.»

I am not sure if Elsa is really a good student if one is measuring by standardized test scores and / or performance on classroom exams, but she could be one of those students who becomes a success in life — like some corporate founders and wealthy people who simply followed their dreams and desires.