Neither the district nor the state has experienced steady
gains in achievement over time.
Not exact matches
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.
These estimates project the historical pattern of growth to determine the result of
gains in student
achievement, calculate the additions to GDP
over the next 80 years, and discount them back to today so that they are comparable to other current investments.
State efforts
in standards - based education
over the past decade have had a positive, but modest, relationship with
gains in student
achievement.
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.
I first analyze changes
over time
in the FCAT test scores of students
in their initial 3rd - grade year
in order to discern the extent to which Florida's elementary - school students made true
achievement gains during the period
in question.
Research on summer learning loss indicates that income - based gaps
in student
achievement tend to widen
over the summer and narrow when school is
in session, suggesting that low - income students have the most to
gain from shortened summers.
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.
Massive economic
gains for states that invest
in student
achievement Fifty - state effort could increase GDP by $ 76 trillion
over next 80 years
Students
in states with «report card» systems, where scores are publicly reported but no consequences are attached to performance, fell
in the middle: they could expect to
gain 1.2 percent
in achievement between grades 4 and 8,
over and above what they would normally learn from grade to grade.
A leading test publisher, aiming to refute charges that standardized - test scores are inflated, has found
in a new study that elementary - school students registered substantial
gains in basic - skills
achievement over the past decade.
Children
in the experimental classrooms
gained about two months
in reading
achievement over those
in the control group.
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.
Each summer most youth lose about two months» worth of math skills, while low - income students also lose morethan two months
in reading
achievement despite the fact that their middle - class peers make slight
gains over the summer break.
These potential economic
gains from improved schools should be compared to the huge political fights
in the U.S.
over a stimulus package of one trillion dollars, or one hundredth of the magnitude of the
gains we are leaving on the table from ignoring the
achievement in our schools.
The improvement approach would first identify a set of K - 12 districts that have realized the greatest
gains in measured student
achievement over a multi-year period.
Using the upper range of their effect size estimates, $ 100 spent on classroom coaches would yield a
gain of
over one - half standard deviations
in student
achievement, and one - to - one tutoring would yield a one - quarter standard deviations improvement.
Gains in student
achievement were seen during the Bush administration, but
over the past 8 years, little progress has been made (and
in 8th grade math there have been declines).
This may be why the U.S. has seen significant
achievement growth for its lowest - performing students
over the last twenty years (especially
in fourth and eighth grades, and particularly
in math), but minimal
gains for its top students.
Few researchers would quibble with their methodological preference: «When it comes to pupil
achievement, assessment of
gains over time (panel studies), rather than absolute levels at a specific point
in time, is superior.»
More than 100,000 teachers
in schools all
over the world are already seeing
gains in student
achievement as they implement Visible Learningplus professional development.
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.
The new report, Effective Teacher Professional Development, reviewed 35 scientifically rigorous studies conducted
over the past 30 years which showed significant
gains in student
achievement resulting from teacher development programs.
In summary, achievement gains have not hastened under the ASD; indeed, they continue to follow a trend that was already established in the two years before the ASD took ove
In summary,
achievement gains have not hastened under the ASD; indeed, they continue to follow a trend that was already established
in the two years before the ASD took ove
in the two years before the ASD took
over.
A new study of international and U.S. state trends
in student
achievement growth shows that the United States is squarely
in the middle of a group of 49 nations
in 4th and 8th grade test score
gains in math, reading, and science
over the period 1995 - 2009.
Through the support of the program, the school is starting to see
gains in student
achievement, with scores increasing across all grades
in reading and writing
over last year.
Intensive case studies were conducted on these schools, some of which made noteworthy student
achievement gains in a relatively short (one - to two - year) time frame, while others improved at a slower, steadier pace
over a longer period.
They find that there's much greater
gain in student
achievement in a school when people work collaboratively
in teams and when teams of teachers stay together
over a period of time and build their collective know ledge and collective capacity.
Denver Public Schools students are making some
gains in achievement, but available data is insufficient to know which of the reforms adopted
over the past five years are — and are not — working, according to a report released...
We also found, after working with teachers
in England, that these
gains in achievement could be sustained
over extended periods of time.
In one study, Alexander, Entwisle, and Olson (2007) found that low - income students made similar
achievement gains to other students during the school year; the widening of the
achievement gap between the two groups occurred
over the summer.
The biggest boost
in public - school
achievement occurred the first year the scholarship program was introduced but
gains persisted
over time.
Value - added scores, which measure growth
in student
achievement over the previous year, showed better than anticipated
gains for grades 3 through 8
in both subjects.
Professional learning communities that perform common assessments have found that their collaboration and dialogue
over instructional goals, coupled with a review of student data, lead to
gains in student
achievement (Christman et al., 2009; King, 2012; Reeves, 2004; Schmoker, 2004).
Distinguished Principals have demonstrated that they are highly effective school leaders, either maintaining high student
achievement results
over the course of a number of years, or producing clear student
achievement gains in their buildings.
Achievement gains are typically small
in each year, but cumulative
over time.
Applying the same adjustments to measures of
gains in NAEP scores
over time also brought a different crop of states to the top of the list, highlighting
gains in scores
in Nevada, Maryland, and Hawaii, with Massachusetts and New Jersey remaining near the top as well.3 The variation
in relative student
achievement among states highlighted by this analysis demonstrates the caution necessary when interpreting state - level NAEP.
In Ohio for example, where the charter sector has been struggling with poor student achievement results for over a decade, charter schools in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality result
In Ohio for example, where the charter sector has been struggling with poor student
achievement results for
over a decade, charter schools
in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality result
in Cleveland are producing positive learning
gains for their students
in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality result
in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools
in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality result
in the city.22
In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality result
In Ohio
in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality result
in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant
in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality result
in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality results.
After establishing what Ripley describes as a more rigorous core curriculum nationally, with
over 100 approved curricula that teachers can use at the local level, Poland began to see
gains in their student
achievement scores on the PISA test.
«HISCO has achieved impressive market share
gains over the last couple of years which is quite an
achievement in the competitive California home warranty market.»
I could probably stretch out another hour to that playtime if I wanted to get the 6
achievements that are
gained by beating certain levels a specific way, and a few more hours if I cared about getting the more grind - heavy
achievements (like buy all of the stuff
in the store & defeat
over 10,000 dinosaurs) but there's no denying that Go Home Dinosaurs is a lot shorter than other favorite tower defense games like Plants vs. Zombies, Pixeljunk Monsters, Defense Grid, and Defender's Quest.
Those years were years of Cold War, and the US wanted to
gain the supremacy
over the rest of the world, even
in terms of scientific discoveries, literary
achievements and of course new cultural ideas.
Don't take for granted to
over achievements accomplished or the looked
over skills you
gained in past positions.