Sentences with phrase «for subsets of students»

Still, it saw sharp hikes in the rates for subsets of students similar to those that frequently end up in ALS schools.

However, on average, students» overall judgment and ranking of the relative trustworthiness of websites was not improved — although it did improve for a subset of students (Zhang & Duke, 2008).

If you live in the Los Angeles area and would like to learn more about the educational issues facing many young men of color, the Assembly Select Committee on Boys and Men of Color will be holding a public hearing on Friday, March 21, on the implications of LCFF for this subset of students.

The study found increased reading achievement for a subset of students (students from schools not in need of improvement and students who were already testing in the top two - thirds of the test - score distribution when they entered the program) but not for students from schools in need of improvement, which the program specifically targeted.

Not exact matches

If any law students out there are looking for a great subject for a law review note, maybe this is it: With driverless cars, and almost no individual driving or ownership, an entire subset of American lawyers will be looking for somebody else to sue.

ADHD experts have suspected for years that a subset of students who misuse stimulants might actually be self - medicating.

Finally, we ran our analysis including value - added measures of teacher effectiveness for the subset of teachers we are able to link to individual students.

For the subset of teachers who can be linked to student - level data, we consider the characteristics of the students whose teachers received a layoff notice under the actual system and in our simulation.

For the subset of teachers who can be linked to their students, we find that teachers who received a layoff notice are more likely to be teaching poor, non-white, and lower - scoring students than other teachers.

Harnessing these tools will in turn make these essential planning skills more accessible for a larger subset of teachers, allowing them to focus their time on how to best personalize the curriculum for each student rather than building each lesson from scratch.

For the subset of teachers who can be linked to students, we are able to estimate value - added measures of classroom performance for each teacher in each yeFor the subset of teachers who can be linked to students, we are able to estimate value - added measures of classroom performance for each teacher in each yefor each teacher in each year.

This subset of schools shifted their grading and testing policies to better reflect mastery, provided supplemental content for students falling behind or moving ahead, and made assessment more frequent and formative.

A district also must focus early wins on student learning to fit the turnaround formula, perhaps by adopting similar goals for one subset of struggling children or a few low - performing schools.

Adding to the costs and further complicating the picture is the subset of disabled students who need very extensive services, sometimes costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for each such pupil.

Andson Money, a subset of Andson, developed their curriculum specifically for Bracken's Piggy - Bank program, taught it to their students, and then integrated feedback from teachers to ensure that it tied into ELA, math, and national standards for financial literacy.

Among the subset of students for whom data are available, we find that transfers made possible by the school - choice program overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools that students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.

With passage of the Local Control Funding Formula, California became the first state to require schools to consider how best to serve a small subset of at - risk students: youth in foster care.According to 2016 California Department of Education data, in English language arts, 56.2 percent of foster students did not meet standards on the Smarter Balanced tests (compared to 30.5 percent of non-foster students) and for mathematics, 64 percent of foster students did not meet standards (compared to 37.3 percent of non-foster students).

[x] The Maths Pathway tool diagnoses where each student has gaps and competencies, within a subset of the curriculum, and then provides each student with targeted coursework for a two - week cycle.

We expect some subset of students to go to school every day and — for an entire school year — not learn.

Because students approved for free meals without an application are a subset of students who would qualify for free or reduced - price school meals if their families completed an application, this approach is likely to lower the percentage of students considered low - income at all schools.

Identified Students are always a subset of the students who would qualify for free or reduced - price school meals if their families completed an applStudents are always a subset of the students who would qualify for free or reduced - price school meals if their families completed an applstudents who would qualify for free or reduced - price school meals if their families completed an application.

[6] Those limits are still in place for a subset of loans (Stafford loans), but as of 2006, graduate and professional students may borrow above those limits up to the full cost of attendance through the federal Grad PLUS loan program.

(This pertained to the subset of principals for whom it was possible to produce a credible measure of their contributions to student achievement growth, because we could observe different principals in the same school in different years.)

Second, Florida's accounts are available to a subset of children with special needs (the specific diagnoses are included in state law), while Arizona's program is available to all children with special needs who would qualify for an Individualized Education Plan or a 504 plan, as well as the several additional categories detailed above.17 (A 504 plan is a plan developed to provide appropriate accommodations for K - 12 students with special needs attending public schools, as detailed in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.)

If a teacher who is very good at teaching one topic is also very good at teaching another — if her value - added measures are similar across topics — we might be comfortable using value - added measures based on a subset of student outcomes, for example, just math or just reading.

If you fail to include a subset of students in your pilot, such as students who qualify for free or reduced price lunch, ESL students, or students already performing above grade level expectations, you won't be able to accurately evaluate your new technology.

Dual - language programs most commonly exist as subsets of traditional high schools, where select students take classes in a language other than English, though generally not for a full half of each day.

Educators review this data and use it to identify a subset of students with the most need for improvement.

The author estimates measures of value added for a subset of elementary teachers and show that charter movers were less effective than other mobile teachers and colleagues within their sending schools, by 3 to 4 percent of a student - level standard deviation in achievement.

Streets will not necessarily be safer nor families wealthier if a subset of city students score a half of a standard deviation, for example, higher on a government - issued test (though that would be nice).

Again, this is not a recommendation for exemption from testing, but simply the one - year exclusion of these impacted students from a campus and district or charter holder accountability subset.

In light of these circumstances, and the challenges faced by public schools in ensuring these students are mastering grade - level TEKS, and the evidence as noted in the Katrina study that many of these students may well perform below state standards in their tested areas as compared to their non-affected peers, it is logical that students who are identified by these specific PEIMS codes should be excluded in the 2017 - 2018 accountability subset for public schools.

As for precedent, in 2006 students who were displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and / or Rita were tested in the state assessment system but their results were removed from the accountability subset, as noted in Appendix I of the 2006 accountability manual.

By definition, this choice leaves out potential learning pathways and progressions, which means that some subset of students will be forced through a sub-optimal learning path for their specific needs.

From the school's perspective, this dissection of growth creates disincentives for focusing on a small subset of students whose performance hovers just below a single threshold.

Shavelson and Wiley suggest a refined version of this approach: for each school, select a subset of schools that match that school in terms of student characteristics.

The team is currently focusing on a subset of students where known factors, such as sociodemographics and test scores, made incorrect predictions with an eye for better understanding these specialized cases.

Determine the interests, values, fears, dreams, and influential relationships of your students by tailoring the motivational techniques for each student in your class (and for academic subsets of students).

One named condition was «To give slightly better chances for admission to all or a subset of educationally disadvantaged students if state law permits the use of such weighted lotteries,» (Baum, 2015).

Such an educational experience can have a truly profound impact on the trajectory of a student's life, and it is not one that should be reserved for only a small subset of students with access to good teachers.

The private loans in this special subset of easily dischargeable private student loans are for schools or education that was obtained at an ineligible education institution.

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In addition, the Nancy Grasmick Teacher Award is a subset of this program that provides additional assistance to outstanding teachers who have taught in Maryland for the past two years, either in STEM subject or for a school with many low - income students.

Although federal student loans are generally easier for borrowers to qualify for, and often offer the most competitive rates, a subset of California borrowers will be arguably better off with private student loans.

The teacher then takes answers from a subset of the class and finds that for a number of questions one or the other student had a fairly decent answer.