Sentences with phrase «fourth through eighth grades»

She rolled out value - added analysis last year for a group of teachers in fourth through eighth grades.

I studied predictive effects of teachers and schools on test scores in fourth through eighth grade and outcomes later in life such as college attendance and earnings.

The social studies vocabulary lists for fourth through eighth grade cover states and regions, U.S. history, as well as both ancient and modern world geography and history.

It's complicated enough that D.C. schools hired Mathematica Policy Research of Princeton, N.J., to crunch the numbers for each of the 471 teachers in the District from fourth through eighth grades whose students took reading and math tests.

The Teacher Dat aReports rate more than 12,000 teachers who taught fourth through eighth grade English or math between 2007 and 2010 based on value - added analysis.

The reports compare teachers of fourth through eighth grades — the grades during which state math and English tests are administered — and then make predictions whether the students» achievement will improve.

Typically developing students in fourth through eighth grades receive items related multi-step problem solving and advanced calculation.

Major sticking points included evaluating how much weight should be given to scores attained from language arts and math tests on the state's Assessment of Skills and Knowledge for fourth through eighth grades, and the High School Proficiency Assessment.

These and other findings with respect to the correlates of teacher effectiveness are obtained from estimations using value - added models that control for student characteristics as well as school and (where appropriate teacher) fixed effects in order to measure teacher effectiveness in reading and math for Florida students in fourth through eighth grades for eight school years, 2001 - 2002 through 2008 - 2009.

New York city schools began using value - added analysis in 2008 after reaching an agreement with the United Federation of Teachers to assess instructors who taught fourth through eighth grade.

Project BOOST fosters cross-grade collaboration through its «feeder pattern» model that pairs elementary and middle schools together to serve cohorts of students as they progress from the fourth through the eighth grades.

Florida classrooms are also dealing with a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2002 limiting class sizes in certain subjects, such as math, science and language arts (18 students in prekindergarten through third grade; 22 students fourth through eighth grades; and 25 students in high school).

The National Geography Bee is for kids in the fourth through eighth grade.

The law required that test scores count for 20 percent of evaluations for teachers of English and math in fourth through eighth grade.

The Regents ultimately decided that for teachers of English and math in fourth through eighth grade, state test scores would count for 25 percent to 50 percent of their evaluations.

The change, if made, would affect about 18 percent of teachers — those responsible for teaching math and English in the fourth through eighth grades.