But these standards do not by themselves necessarily account for
the gains in achievement by all demographic groups and by our regional vocational / technical high schools (which enroll a disproportionate number of special education students and below - grade level readers).
Not exact matches
His great
achievement, contrary to the tendencies of his time,
in marrying knowledge through faith with knowledge
gained by reason, is mirrored
in his understanding of Scripture's letter and spirit.
By the time one obtains the doctorate, one has learned to measure one's
achievement in terms of contributing to the discipline and
gaining recognition within it.
According to the publication, its judges lauded CSWA
in the generic organization category for
achievements in gaining broad program participation
by the state's wineries and vineyards.
By slipping
in some of these «outstanding
achievements» you may
gain some of the Halo Effect
in your interview.
Things are coming to a head at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards this Saturday night, where «Argo» will either continue it's dominance with Ben Affleck winning Outstanding Directorial
Achievement in Motion Pictures or Steven Spielberg finally
gaining some ground
by winning for «Lincoln.»
While we've made some
gains at the 4th - grade level (probably reflecting better instruction
in decoding), reading -
achievement trends
by the end of high school are depressingly flat.
A separate study of the ECLS - K data, also
by Peterson and Llaudet, similarly showed that private school students
gained significantly more
in reading
achievement than demographically similar public school students
in schools with similar student populations.
Schools operated
by Achievement First, for example, have helped their students
gain an additional 125 days of learning
in math and 57 days
in English over traditional public schools.
Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point
gains in achievement on state reading and math tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent
by 2025 for all students and student subgroups
The return to resegregated neighborhood elementary schools
in Oklahoma City, after 13 years of busing for integration, has not led to the
gains in achievement, parent involvement, and equity the school district had claimed, according to a report released today
by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
We preferred to
gain precision
in estimating the
achievement in each district
by increasing our sample size rather than restricting the sample to 8th graders
in order to
gain comparability
in the age of the students under review.
This special report
by the EPE Research Center analyzes the links between state policies related to standards - based reform and
gains in student
achievement over the past decade.
By far the largest and most comprehensive study on this topic ever conducted, «THE ARTS AND ACADEMIC
ACHIEVEMENT: WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS,» confirms claims that listening to music temporarily enhances spatial skills (the controversial «Mozart Effect»), as well as claims that children who study music
gain skill
in spatial reasoning.
Massive economic
gains for states that invest
in student
achievement Fifty - state effort could increase GDP
by $ 76 trillion over next 80 years
Working with data from the State of Florida, I have regularly noticed that
achievement gains by students who move from one public school to another badly trail the
gains of students who remain
in the same school — even after one has adjusted for many family background characteristics.
Murray points to the fact that national
gains in educational
achievement, particularly for those beginning on the lower end of the distribution, have been very hard to come
by in the past few decades: «If we confine the discussion to children
in the lower half of the intelligence distribution (education of the gifted is another story), the overall trend of the 20th century was one of slow, hard - won improvement.»
An analysis of test score
gains made
by students
in 49 countries which was published
in Ed Next last year found that students
in the U.S. were not on track to close the global
achievement gap.
Parental warmth was important
in bolstering
achievement and staving off problems across all demographics — increasing the benefits
gained by providing structure at home.
Early evidence suggested that quality control was indeed a concern: The
achievement gains made
by charter students
in Arizona,
in particular, often lagged that of their district peers through 2012.
All five of the instruments yielded scores that were related to student
achievement gains,
in the classroom of students where the teacher was observed as well as
in other classrooms of students taught
by the same teacher.
We therefore employ a third approach that gauges the amount of variation
in principal effectiveness directly
by measuring the additional fluctuation
in school average
achievement gains when a new principal assumes leadership, as compared to typical fluctuations from year to year.
The Commission, chaired
by Dr. Paul Hill of the University of Washington, carefully reviewed the research on the impact of school choice on student
achievement and included
in its report the following statement: «The most rigorous school choice evaluations that used random assignment... found that academic
gains from vouchers were largely limited to the African - American students
in their studies.»
However, it is also clear that the initial
achievement hit these students take is not offset
by gains in subsequent years, so that even this group, which is harmed least
by attending a charter school, still has lower levels of
achievement as a result of attending a charter school.
Nor do the researchers find evidence that students who attend middle schools make larger
achievement gains than their K - 8 peers
in grades 9 and 10,
by which time most Florida students have entered high school.
For these teachers, we can test whether improvement over time
in the practices measured
by TES is related to improvement
in the
achievement gains made
by the teachers» students.
The department should specify that a probationary teacher is «ineffective» during their fourth year of teaching if: (i) a teacher's average student
achievement gain during their second through fourth year of teaching falls below that of the average first - year teacher
in their district or (ii) the classroom observations done
by external observers during their second through fourth year of teaching falls below that of the average first - year teacher.
Teachers» scores on the classroom observation components of Cincinnati's evaluation system reliably predict the
achievement gains made
by their students
in both math and reading.
The Center for Learning
in Technology researchers, led
by Bill Penuel, found increased student engagement, greater responsibility for learning, increased peer collaboration skills, and greater
achievement gains by students who had been labeled low achievers.
Participation
in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance
in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance
in school, as measured
by achievement test scores and grades; significant
gains in academic
achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement
in learning.
The same approach might work
in education: it could be that individual teacher moves
by themselves can not create measurable year - end
achievement gains in students, but combining many together can.
However, without the changes Massachusetts made to its entire system of teacher licensing (e.g., subject area licensing tests for all prospective teachers, criteria for achieving full licensure after beginning teaching, and criteria for license renewal for veteran teachers), it is unlikely there would have been enduring
gains in achievement for students
in all demographic groups and
in all its regional vocational / technical high schools —
gains confirmed
by tests independent of control or manipulation
by Massachusetts or federal policy makers.
A recent Council of the Great City Schools report hailed Houston for «beating the odds»
by generating sizable
gains in student
achievement.
By their low - end estimates of benefits (which total to just three standard deviations), each $ 100 spent on classroom coaches would be expected to yield at least a 0.25 standard deviations
gain in achievement, very similar to the expected
gain for full - day kindergarten.
While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration
in school success and student
achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study
by EdSource, «
Gaining Ground
in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better»
in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger
in the past two years,» West says.
Then, we examine whether the test - score
gains in tracking schools were concentrated among simpler or more complex tasks and whether this varied
by students» initial
achievement levels.
Summer instruction
in particular may be as important as any extended time intervention, as it serves to maintain continuous learning, counters the loss of
achievement gains caused
by long gaps
in school, and provides needed nutrition and other auxiliary supports (Borman & Dowling, 2006).
The results presented here — greater teacher performance as measured
by student
achievement gains in years following TES review — strongly suggest that teachers develop skills or otherwise change their behavior
in a lasting manner as a result of undergoing subjective performance evaluation
in the TES process.
An analysis conducted for Quality Counts 2006
by the EPE Research Center found a positive relationship between states that had pursued a standards - based education agenda and
gains in student
achievement.
However, voucher students began to show signs of improvement
by their fourth year
in a private school, and
in that year there was no statistically significant difference between them and their public - school peers
in terms of total
achievement gains from baseline.
Perhaps the most profound advance since 2010 is that individual
achievement and attainment records for every subject are saved (with elaborate safeguards)
in cyberspace and secure state databases, where «unique student identifier» numbers make it possible for data to be readily aggregated without revealing individual identity and for analysts to investigate things like learning
gains by pupils
in various schools and circumstances.
To get out from those provisions of No Child Left Behind, Oregon promised the feds
in 2012 that
by summer 2013, Oregon would have a plan to use student
achievement gains as «a significant factor» when evaluating teachers and principals.
They found that the amount of time students spent
in independent reading was the best predictor of reading
achievement and also the best predictor of the amount of
gain in reading
achievement made
by students between second and fifth grade.
Charter critics have argued that large
achievement gains at No Excuses charter schools are driven
in part
by efforts to encourage weaker or less committed students to leave.
The value - added
achievement gain scores pioneered
by Tennessee
in the early nineties allow users to compare schools as to how much they actually improve the
achievement of their students — as opposed to comparisons of simple
achievement scores that mainly reflect demographics.
First, we made a straightforward comparison of the average test - score
gains in classrooms run
by TFA and non-TFA teachers, controlling for a variety of factors known to influence academic
achievement, including students» backgrounds, the students» previous performance on the TAAS, characteristics of their schools, and characteristics of their classmates.
First, the teachers it recruits are
in fact good teachers who produce
achievement gains for students that match or exceed those accomplished
by other new teachers who have been prepared
in other ways.
Studies conducted
by Mathematica Policy Research show that KIPP schools achieve significantly greater
gains in student
achievement than do traditional public schools teaching similar students.
A new, 50 - state report
by the Center on Education Policy found that reading and math scores are rising and
achievement gaps are narrowing,
gains that are attributable
in part to NCLB.
For the United States, the research suggests, modest
gains in student
achievement as measured
by one international assessment could cumulatively boost the country's gross domestic product
by tens of trillions of dollars over the coming decades.