Sentences with phrase «gains in achievement only»

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We gained another big achievement when we established an agreement with one of the safest Bitcoin wallets in the industry, GreenAddress: our exchange uses only multisig addresses and it allows zero - confirmation Bitcoin deposits, making it even faster to transfer the funds from your wallet to The Rock Trading.

At the time the event was only open to sportswomen who had competed in a Varsity Match, gaving them a chance to gain recognition for their achievements amongst their female peers.

His greatest achievement came in 2003/04 with «The Invincibles» side that not only gained plaudits for winning, but the free - flowing, attacking style with which they played.

In New York City, the achievement gains of the last 15 years were possible only because there was room «for the leadership of the school system to act and to make change and to not be sort of negotiating those changes with dozens of local boards or even the central board,» he said.

This achievement is not only likely to help gain a deeper understanding of basic biological processes, but it may, in the future, pave the way toward controlling the synthesis of both naturally - occurring and synthetic proteins for a host of uses.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

The individual studies of the privately funded K — 12 scholarship programs in the District of Columbia and Dayton reported overall achievement gains only for the large subgroup of African American students in the program.

Small gains in student achievement may only be the tip of the iceberg.

RAND II found only small NAEP achievement gains in Texas, similar to those nationwide and contrasting sharply with «soaring» scores on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

In other words, student responses were not only consistent across classrooms, they were predictive of student achievement gains across classrooms.

Extra gains associated with long - term attendance in small classes (in the early grades) appeared not only for tests of measured achievement, but also for other measures of success in education;

They say that employees that learn on a gamified Learning Management System will not be truly engaged, at least not in the long term, because they are only working hard to gain badges, points and achievements — and as soon as the novelty wears off, so will their engagement and good work ethic.

However, there is evidence that those students who had only one to two years of small classes in grades K - 3 did not sustain their achievement gains through grade 8, while those who had three to four years of small classes were able to sustain their achievement gains.

Our findings also speak only to the achievement gains of students using vouchers to switch to a private school in grades 5 — 8.

Given that the federal role in education has rewarded a lot of cronies and entrenched a lot of anti-freedom bureaucrats but produced no student achievement gains, and can constitutionally exist only because the feds bribe states with their own money, it's about time someone with power and cojones took a stand.

If every teacher in your district incrementally improves in only one or two instructional strategies every year for 10 years, then you can be confident that the cumulative effect will be significant gains in student achievement.

Our team at DreamBox is inspired not only by this new recognition from Tech & Learning, but also by the recent analysis conducted by the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University that suggests DreamBox drives compelling achievement gains in elementary math.

Controlling for many potential confounds, we also found that only more frequent use of teacher - directed instructional practices was consistently and significantly associated with residualized (value added) gains in the mathematics achievement of first - grade students with prior histories of MD [i.e., mathematics difficulties].

This holistic approach has yielded results in places like Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade level.

While there is not a clear causal effect between a teacher's own academic record and his or her ability to achieve the kinds of learning gains that help students excel, most studies do find a correlation between higher GPA and teacher effectiveness.43 Taken in aggregate with other factors, such as experience and rank of undergraduate school, some studies have found larger positive impacts, especially for math achievement.44 For this reason, a high GPA should not be the only factor that determines entry into the profession.

There wasn't much additional benefit from exceeding a half hour of reading — only 3 more percentile points in achievement gains.

For as long as the United States has been engaged in standards - based education reform, we have achieved only modest gains and failed to close the achievement gap (Dee & Jacob, 2012; Hanushek & Raymond, 2005).

AUSL is only one of two of these innovations studied that has shown proven and sustained gains in student achievement.

The latest results are flat, with a persistent achievement gap, and only minor gains in 8th grade reading.

Yet given these limitations, the results were striking: even when analyzing the achievement of third graders who had the benefits of a smaller class for only one year, as compared to those who were in large classes, the gains were substantial, especially for disadvantaged students in inner - city schools.

They found that not only did performance (as measured by math achievement of students) increase during the evaluation year, but the gains were sustained in subsequent years.

Xpress series were the only model car series and manufacturer that attained superb achievements in the world model car racing competitions and gained overwhelming successes in Japanese market as well as other worldwide markets.

Adolescence is characterized by major biological, psychological and social challenges and opportunities, where interaction between the individual and environment is intense, and developmental pathways are set in motion or become established.2 — 4 Furthermore, adolescent psychopathology can have important consequences for education, relationships and socioeconomic achievement in later life.5 — 7 These characteristics of adolescence do not only set high demands for cohort studies aiming to capture the most salient aspects of developmental pathways, they also ensure a great gain in empirical knowledge and an invaluable source of information for public health policy from such studies.

Compared to control groups, not only do students who participate in SEL programs demonstrate significant gains in their social and emotional skills; they show higher levels of prosocial behavior, more favorable attitudes toward school and others, and better academic achievement.