Sentences with phrase «grade students across»

The NAEP exam, which is administered to fourth - and eighth - grade students across the U.S., showed low - performing students» results were static, while high - performing students made gains since the last exam was administered in 2015.

Did you know that one in 10 kindergarten and first - grade students across the nation are chronically absent?

Some may say that low student engagement levels explain why only 34 percent of 8th - grade students across the nation are proficient or advanced in reading.

Last year, hundreds of 11th - grade students across Connecticut refused to take the mandated SBAC test.

Nearly 5,200 7th - 12th grade students across the US, UK, and Canada submitted essays and, with the help of over 100 judges and over 10,000 online voters, Facing History selected 10 essays that best encapsulate this year's theme.

Now that all 37 elementary schools have implemented the Extended Day Enrichment Program, all pre-K to fifth - grade students across the community can participate in an enriching and educational environment that further facilitates student success.

While the state is not currently collecting data on course enrollment, Ze'ev Wurman, who is referred to in this article, directed us after the article's publication to the results of a survey of the representative number of 8th grade students in California who took the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, the test given every two years to a cross-section of 137,000 8th - grade students across the United States.

Michael Dunlea, who was mentioned earlier, used Voxer to teach his second grade students across time zones.

Not exact matches

Are effective for racially and ethnically diverse students from urban, rural and suburban settings across the K - 12 grade range.

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

In April, parents across New York pulled more than 200,000 students in grades three to eight out of state tests in English language arts and math.

Unfortunately, most districts and unions across the state set the bar so low that nearly 60 % of teachers got the highest rating when only a third of students read and do math at grade level.

Schools across New York were shaken this spring when nearly one - fifth of students opted out of the required English tests for the third through the eighth grades.

This week, the Kingston City School District, like public school districts across New York, administered state assessment tests in math for students in grades 3 - 8.

This comes as students in grades three through eight across the state's 700 school began the first of three days of math testing on Tuesday.

The mayor said 67 percent of Richmond Hill students across all grade levels are now on track to graduate, up from 60 percent at this point last year.

Currently, Project BOOST operates in 60 elementary and middle schools, serving more than 700 students in grades four through eight across New York City.

The study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.

The study includes results from 359 multiple - choice test items administered to over 20,000 students in grades 4 through 12 from across the U.S..

The journal is designed to provide students from grades 7 to 12 with an opportunity to communicate their school - based science and technology experiences with other students across the province of Ontario and perhaps even the country, as well as an opportunity to test their writing skills and their artwork.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

Russell and colleagues analyzed surveys of the seventh -, ninth - and 11th - grade students from nearly half of the schools across the state.

Our goal is to seek out bright students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents entering grades 10 to 12 from groups underrepresented in engineering from across the United States, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa.

Volume 1 gives us the entire first U.K. season (the third season just started running in England), with one interconnecting, ongoing story strung across nine 45 - minute episodes, each of which takes the perspective of one of a gang of friends, students at a Bristol sixth - form college (roughly equivalent of the upper grades of an American high school and the beginnings of a postsecondary education).

Current enrollment in the pre-kindergarten through 12th grades exceeds 1,000 students from 80 communities across northern New Jersey.

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

With the development — finally — of better measures of student learning that came from tracking achievement across grades comes the ability to see where success and failure reside.

But the same local administrators who have been charged with getting more students across the graduation stage also have considerable leeway — via course grades, credit recovery programs, and shadier practices — in determining whether students have earned the privilege.

I find that connecting the strategies across multiple grade levels is illuminating for students, as well as for me.

Since it began in 2003, the company has helped thousands of students across the world achieve the grades they deserve.

Without combining data in some way, such as across grade levels or school years, Hispanic students won't be included as a separate group in the state's accountability system for that school.

Data averaging pools students across grade levels at the school - year level, and / or across years at the school - grade level, increasing the number of observations and, consequently, the chance of getting to the minimum n - size.

Students across the grades will enjoy this book, written by James Howe and illustrated by Ed Young.

In their article, «The Relative Equitability of High - Stakes Testing versus Teacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and scGrades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and scgrades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and science.

P.K. Yonge decided it would make sense to start by systematically targeting one entire grade level, rather than a smattering of teachers and students across the many different grades.

Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for helping students develop across any grade.

Pooling data across years and grades will include most students in accountability systems, but for lower enrollment populations, pooling across racial / ethnic groups may provide an opportunity to include students in accountability systems in cases where subgroup size is otherwise too small.

Teachers can observe how students choose to use their learning time, manage their workloads, and work independently, with teacher support, or across grade levels.

The shared understanding and enjoyment they feel, along with the friendships across grade levels found in co-curricular music groups, is very inspiring for many students.

As states across the U.S. move to adopt standardized tests as a means to determine grade promotion and school graduation, new research presented in the Harvard Educational Review shows that sole reliance on high - stakes tests as a graduation requirement may increase inequities among students by both race and gender.

A compelling way to see this is to look at the relationship across schools between the average test - score gain students make between the 4th and 8th grade and our summary measure of their students» fluid cognitive ability at the end of that period (see Figure 2).

I use national data to show how many students would be excluded from accountability measures at different n - sizes and how other combining data across grade levels or years within a school can include more students in the accountability process.

Sharing resources across grade levels, hallways or an entire school can be a frustrating hassle, but with the right planning and preparation, teachers can still maximize these resources to give students access to digital tools for learning.

This week, Education World offers three teaching masters for teachers across the grades to use to help students brush up on their study skills — using a search engine, using an index, looking for key words, skimming text for information, and more — while they learn interesting facts about the world around them!

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

32 Vigorous exercise can lead to academic gains; many kids drinking alcohol by sixth grade, study shows; students read about bays and keep track of miles as they run across America.»

For example, when reviewing reading scores across the 4th grade, they found that many of the students were struggling with the concept of summarization.

A student's belief in his or her capability to succeed has been shown to predict academic achievement across grades and subjects as well as college majors and careers (Usher & Pajares, 2008).

Pooling data across years and grades may provide an opportunity to include students in accountability systems in cases where subgroup size is otherwise too small.

We should not leave it up to the students to accidentally stumble upon connections across disciplines, as my eighth - grade history student did when she realized that two of her teachers were independently teaching her about the Mayan civilization.