Sentences with phrase «from better test scores»

Well - implemented programs designed to foster SEL are associated with positive outcomes, ranging from better test scores and higher graduation rates to improved social behavior.

Not exact matches

Among the 18 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's assessment, the U.S. ranked at best eighth and at worst 12th, based on the range of scores from its 1,133 students tested.

Connecticut owes much of its improvement to a big jump in its Education ranking, climbing to No. 3 from No. 18, due largely to better high school test scores.

New # 16 million Arsenal signing Danny Welbeck scored both of the goals for Hodgson, converting fine assists from Liverpool duo Raheem Sterling and Rickie Lambert, whilst the Three Lions» defence also stood up well to the tests posed by the likes of Xherdan Shaqiri and Haris Seferovic.

Drogba, Anelka, Malouda, Lampard, Joe Cole and even Alex tested Jennings from different ranges, unusual angles and better - than - before resilience, but still failed to increment the Chelsea score - line.

A high school student's GPA, researchers have found, is a better predictor of her likelihood to graduate from college than her scores on standardized tests like the SAT and ACT.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Parents should, of course, help kids reduce the sources of stress — not over-scheduling them or excessively focusing on grades and test scores — but they can also dramatically reframe stress, away from avoiding it at all costs to trying to manage the bad and leverage the good.

More than 200 teachers and principals received erroneous scores from the state on a contentious measurement that ties their performance to how well their students do on tests, according to state documents obtained by The New York Times.

Rosa has garnered support from the state's teachers unions as well as test refusal leaders, but Common Core advocates are fearful that Rosa will undo the work of her predecessor, Tisch, who championed the Common Core and the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers.

Millennium gives preference to students from below Houston Street, and so far all those who meet the admissions criteria — an A average, good attendance and strong test scores — have always been offered a seat.

While lower test scores largely result from more difficult tests, they fly in the face of Mayor Bloomberg's constant assertions that everything in our schools was getting better, thanks to his leadership.

Property taxes dropped dramatically, but so did school performance, with test scores going from the best in the nation to some of the worst.

A total of 12 individuals and teams chosen from six regional competitions competed for the top prizes; combined with awards to students who score well on advanced placement tests and their teachers, the total Siemens pot comes to nearly $ 1 million.

«After developing our scale, data from follow - up testing confirmed that students» engagement scores were positively correlated with indicators of performance, such as good grades and independent learning outside of school motivated by interest.

Whatever the explanation, the Flynn effect is now well established, and IQ tests must be recalibrated from time to time to return the average score to 100.

Students who had a sharper mathematical intuition scored better on math tests from kindergarten onward.

«Composite» cognitive scores, combining the results from several different tests, are probably the best.

A study from the University of Utah and the University of Kansas found that backpackers scored 50 percent better on a creativity test after spending four days in natural settings, disconnected from electronic devices.

Mica Levi — «Under The Skin» (2013) In general, we've tried to steer away from the best latter - day horror scores, as it's always hard to know the extent to which any work will withstand the test of time.

We don't really care about test scores per se, we care about them because we think they are near - term proxies for later life outcomes that we really do care about — like graduating from high school, going to college, getting a job, earning a good living, staying out of jail, etc...

High - stakes tests generally have consequences for schools as well as for the students themselves — for example, monetary support may be withdrawn from schools that fail to raise scores.

Results from the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), released on 5 December, show Australia's average score was lower than those of 13 other countries, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Northern Ireland and England, which all tested in English, as well as other top - performing countries the Russian Federation, Finland and Poland.

Once good standards and decent tests are in place, states should release test scores (and other revealing information such as graduation rates) every which way, and they should rate their schools on an easy to understand scale, ideally from A to F, as Florida started doing under Governor Jeb Bush.

We may not be getting higher scores when the tests use traditional cultural content (one can't learn that from the video games and the TV shows), but we are apparently getting better at other kinds of tests, such as Raven Matrices, which test for logic, pattern recognition, and task completion.

By comparing each student's gain to gains among students who performed at a similar level and would have experienced a similar, natural shift toward the average score, I can better separate legitimate test - score gains and losses from change associated with mean reversion.

Still, even a modicum of school choice and competition can boost student test scores, especially when combined with a comprehensive examination system for high - school graduates, says Ludger Woessmann, whose systematic, sophisticated analyses of international test - score data best summarize what can be learned from abroad.

These are examples from the guidelines provided by Rudolph Flesch, who produced a formula for calculating a human interest score for text as well as his more famous readability test.

We are, however, able to control for students» test scores from the previous year, which may well capture a lot of the characteristics that we can not measure directly.

If regulators are unable to predict which schools will be good (assuming, falsely, that test score gains are a reliable indicator of good schools), how are they supposed to «protect» parents from making bad choices about schools?

The study discovered that students from poorer backgrounds are entering secondary schools with better test scores.

Jiang Xueqin, a Chinese educator well aware that test scores result from memorizing, and leave no room for inventiveness or curiosity or deep learning, lamented the fact that Chinese students came out first, internationally, in math, science and reading.

Since returning from teaching at Harvard University to start a charter school in his hometown, Lawrence P. Hernandez has become well - known for two things: coaxing top - flight test scores from his mostly low - income and Latino students, and fighting like a pit bull for the money to do it.

The authors suggest that other states learn from «the danger of relying on statewide test scores as the sole measure of student achievement when these scores are used to make high - stakes decisions about teachers and schools as well as students.»

Having a teacher from a good program rather than an average program will, on average, raise a student's test scores by 1 percentile point or less.

While the choice sector as a whole looks pretty good on test scores and other measures, the averages mask poor performance from a significant minority of choice and charter schools.

Scores on the SAT and ACT tests are not good predictors of whether students are likely to graduate from college.

Some thought the best evidence came from averaging all the test score results together, while others thought the scores of students at each grade level should be looked at separately.

While the scores from good standardized tests tell us something about a student, they hardly tell us everything about that student, much less that student's school.

Having more students from middle - class and upper - class families almost always translates to better test scores for everybody.

In our view, the best way to address this concern is to report the results from the two - step approach along with information on test - score levels.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

Our lottery - based analysis of pilot effects looks at elementary - grade outcomes as well as test scores from middle and high school.

The research consensus suggests TFA corps members are about equally effective at raising students» test scores as teachers from all other pathways, though better in math than in reading and writing.

African American and Latino students, as well as children and youths from low - income families, have been particularly hard hit, according to the unanimous court ruling, which pointed to dismal test scores and graduation rates as evidence of the impact of insufficient funding.

But the more this degree attainment is divorced from knowledge attainment (and test scores), the weaker this effect might become over time (unless employers really just care about conscientiousness, which may very well be the case).

By contrast, IMPACT relies on observational scores both from principals and from «master educators» — highly rated former teachers who work full - time for the district — as well as on student test - score growth, which increasingly is being used to evaluate teachers nationwide.

Global Gaps by Dr John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education (IoE) and Education Datalab analyses the 2015 test scores from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) PISA tests to assess how well the UK's schools are doing for the top 10 % of pupils.

In recent years a school of thought arose in our space that a centralized authority or «harbor - master» could produce better outcomes by carefully controlling both the entrance and the exit of schools from charter sectors, primarily on the basis of standardized test scores.

MET could have allayed those concerns by telling teachers that test score gains produce information that is generally similar to what is learned from well - conducted classroom observations, so there is no reason to oppose one and support the other.