Sentences with phrase «grade than other students»

Poor sleepers are more likely to fail a grade than other students are, even when they do similar amounts of homework (Kahn et al., 1989).

Third graders who have good sleep habits have higher grades in 5th grade than other students, after controlling statistically for earlier test scores (Buckhalt, El - Sheikh, Keller, & Kelly, 2009).

Not exact matches

◾ The average GPA for students who were frequently physically harassed because of their sexual orientation was half a grade lower than that of other students.»

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

Still, some students stand out more than others, getting better grades and grasping material more deeply.

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

If you do anything other than «teach» (i.e. grading, reading student work, etc.) you don't get paid even minimum wage.

Fourteen percent of the high school students transferred to other schools, with more than half ending up at another school with a grade of C or lower on its School Progress Report.

The researchers used data from a five - year study that examined the negative consequences of students changing schools for reasons other than grade promotion and the impact of an outreach program designed to enhance relationships between families and school personnel.

And in the other study with the Walton Arts Center we are surveying more than 2,000 7th grade students in area schools to link the past performances they have seen on school field trips to their current behaviors as cultural consumers and producers as well as some empathy and tolerance outcomes.

Several studies (download) have found that more high school students fail ninth grade than any other grade; in low - income high schools, 40 percent of all dropouts (download) leave after ninth grade.

This second quarter, my students» writing portfolios included six essays with revised rough drafts — but, unlike last quarter when I graded all six essays equally, I had students select one essay to be graded more thoroughly than the others.

In the last decade, at least 15 state legislatures and boards of education have adopted policies incentivizing their public schools to prioritize measures other than grades when assessing students» skills and competencies.

In schools that had a chance to achieve a Recognized rating, low - scoring students who were not designated as eligible for special education in 8th grade were 2.4 percentage points more likely to be newly designated as such in 10th grade, an increase of more than 100 percent relative to the 2 percent designation rate in other schools.

Snow and her colleagues carried out a quasi-experimental study comparing nearly 700 sixth - to eighth - grade students in five Word Generation schools to more than 300 students in three other Boston Public schools that did not choose to implement the program.

In math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in fourth to eighth grade by as much as 10 percent of a standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantic.

At some D.C. elementary schools, rather than settling into a healthy racial and socioeconomic balance, student populations are flipping from one extreme to the other, with fourth - grade classes dominated by minorities and preschool classes that are mostly white.

We estimate that an 8th grader who attends school with 200 other 8th - grade students will score 0.04 standard deviations lower in both math and English than he would if he attended a school with 75 other 8th graders, the average cohort size for a K — 8 school.

A Department of Education 2008 report determined that students who seek to master an academic topic with mastery - oriented goals show better long - term academic development than do their peers whose main goals are to get good grades or outperform others, thus the value of including feedback other than formal grades and of metacognition.

Sean explained, «The utility of perceived conscientiousness in predicting how well students do aligns with other research showing that it is how hard students work, rather than their IQ, that is the best predictor of academic grades, but the bigger story is that there is no accuracy at all unless you control for attractiveness bias.»

She asked the school district to adopt a uniform policy banning peer grading and requiring teachers either to grade assignments themselves or at least to forbid students from grading papers other than their own.

Other programs, such as skipping grades, would actually save money, since students would spend 12 rather than 13 years in the system.

The students in the smaller classes continued to achieve at higher rates than their peers in the other groups even after they returned to normal - sized classrooms in grades four and beyond.

To ensure that students are keeping up with the material, DoDEA schools administer more tests than any other school system in the U.S., in third through 11th grades, Lambe said.

A student in the middle grades may now have as many as five teachers, none of which know her well — one of the reasons big schools, other things being equal, tend to perform less well than others.

In my research I have identified 34 different examples of charter school innovation, including small size; untenured teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and teacher involvement in school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual grade configurations; split sessions and extended school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction for at - risk and other frequently absent students.

To participate in the lottery, students other than those who had yet to begin 1st grade were required to take a standardized test.

First - and second - grade students in 1993 who had been kept out of kindergarten until they were older were less likely than other students to draw negative feedback from teachers about their academic performance or conduct in class.

Among student subgroups, the study also finds that «grade configuration has a larger effect on the math scores of traditionally disadvantaged subgroups than on other students.

A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the teaching effectiveness of the original professor.

Students who need us for something other than clarifying instructions, providing credit, and letter grades

In Rebecca Mohler's fourth - grade class, for example, at least half the students speak a language other than English at home.

On the other hand, classrooms with students from multiple grades were 65 percent less likely to cheat than classrooms where all students were in the same grade.

Other studies have found that younger students (e.g., in kindergarten) often have better scores in the fall than in the spring, while older elementary students (e.g., fourth and fifth grade) reverse that trend.

Beginning in the 2010 - 2011 school year, for each school identified for preliminary registration review pursuant to subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, the local school district shall be given the opportunity to present to the commissioner additional assessment data, which may include, but need not be limited to, valid and reliable measures of: the performance of students in grades other than those in which the State tests are administered; the performance of limited English proficient students and / or other students with special needs; and the progress that specific grades have made or that cohorts of students in the school have made towards demonstrating higher student performance.

Public school districts may commence language other than English instruction at any grade level prior to grade eight but shall do so no later than the beginning of grade eight so that students are provided the required two units of study by the end of grade nine.

Moreover, looking at the absolute performance of our students on the 2011 NAEP — rather than relative to other states — fewer than half of NJ students were deemed «proficient» across fourth - and eighth - grade math and reading.

Mr. Carvalho has joined other superintendents and school board members in the state in calling for a delay in the use of new tests, including the not yet validated Florida Standards Assessment — a Common Core variant, with tougher standards than the last assessment used — to grade the state's schools, teachers and students.

«While some researchers have found that retained students «can significantly improve their grade - level skills during their repeated year,» others have found that less than half of retained students meet promotion standards after attending summer school and repeating a grade.

In other words, more students were taking more advanced math and getting better grades — and yet our students knew less in 2008 than they did 30 years earlier.

KIPP defines attrition as the percentage of students who leave a school (for reasons other than completing the highest grade or transferring to another KIPP school) in one annual cycle between October 1 of 2015 and October 1 of 2016, which is the date that most states close their enrollment.

The data also indicate that patterns of student attrition at KIPP schools are typically no different from other local schools except that KIPP schools replace vacancies with fewer students in the last two years of middle school, and those late - arriving students are somewhat higher - achieving than students entering KIPP schools in 5th and 6th grades.

They complain that the letter grades oversimplify student success or shortfalls, increase pressure to pay attention to tests, ignore school quality factors other than test scores, and demoralize teachers and parents.

In the elementary grades 3 through 5, students of new Teach for America teachers gained an average of 5.8 percent of a standard deviation more on the TAAS reading exam than did students with other new teachers, a difference that fell just short of statistical significance (see Figure 2).

I do this by looking at the sample of students who are continuously enrolled in a district school between grades 3 and 5 in order to exclude students coming from and going to other schools; their results are nearly identical to, if not slightly larger than, the effects on the full sample.

Since the grades assigned vary much less across classrooms than does students» performance on standardized tests, high - achieving students should be more likely to earn high grades in classrooms where the other students, on average, do not perform well on external assessments.

Since my students are struggling and are a lot lower in grade level than others, I was worried that they wouldn't be able to do it, but they surprised me.

Students who do not pass the IREAD - 3 could theoretically be educated in a blended Grade 3 - 4 classroom, or attend subjects other than reading in a fourth grade classroom.

The board is projecting that the sixth -, seventh - and eight - grade classes - which don't exist at Tinker - will have 150 students each, nearly twice as many as any other grade at the proposed charter school and more than twice as many as most, according to the application.

In the early grades, activities designed to help students learn to read typically account for more instructional time than any other subject area.