Sentences with phrase «grade than their peers»

Studies from the early 1980's demonstrated that children in situations where their parents had been involved in multiple divorces earned lower grades than their peers and their peers rated them as less pleasant to be around.

For instance, learners might not be suitably driven to complete an eLearning course, but if their social reputation is at stake or they are conscious of the fact that they might get a smaller grade than their peers, the motivation to excel will definitely increase.

Sixth - and seventh - grade Citizen Schools participants earned better grades than peers who did not attend the program in English and math and scored higher on a state English exam during their first year in the program, all at statistically significant levels.

It is well known that summer - born pupils leave school with lower grades than their peers, but research has now shown that they are also diagnosed by schools with special educational needs at a significantly higher rate than the older children in their year.

There is also research suggesting attendees of some large public programs, including Head Start, are no better off by third grade than their peers who didn't attend such programs.

Those students who eventually dropped out of high school had missed significantly more days of school in first grade than their peers who later graduated from high school.

Not exact matches

Women are also taking longer to pay off student debt, according to a report completed this year by the American Association of University Women, despite being more likely to enroll and earning higher grades than most of their male peers.

When I ask my peers how they feel about a class, they tell me about their grades rather than the in - class experience.

Some parents worry that accelerating their child in earlier grades will lead to their child not fitting in when they reach puberty or have growth spurts later than their peers.

By 16, children receiving free school meals achieve 1.7 grades lower at GCSE than their wealthier peers.6 Leaving school with fewer qualifications translates into lower earnings over the course of a working life.

In a Michigan State study, students who were given a rationale for why learning is important from their peers got much better final grades than students who were given the same rationale from the teacher.

«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.

College students who participated in a self - administered intervention prompting them to reflect about their use of classroom resources had final grades that were higher than their peers, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

By Anne Harding MONDAY, May 3, 2010 (Health.com)-- Children in grades three through six who are obese are more likely to be bullied than their normal - weight peers, a new study has found.

Children in grades three through six who are obese are more likely to be bullied than their normal - weight peers, a new study has found.

From the time she was in grade school, she weighed noticeably more than her peers.

Fourth graders who showed signs of depression were more likely than their classmates to be victimized as fifth graders, and kids who were picked on in fifth grade tended to be less accepted by their peers in sixth grade.

These populations also post higher rates of grade retention and lower rates of high - school graduation than their majority - culture peers.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, who recently studied data for more than 4,700 11 - to 18 - year - olds in St. Paul, concluded that students who ate family meals more frequently than their peers tended to have better grades.

Across six studies, grittier adolescents earned higher grade point averages than their peers, grittier West Point cadets were more likely to stay after the first summer, grittier spelling bee participants outlasted less tenacious competitors, and grittier adults had higher levels of education and made fewer career changes than less gritty peers (Duckworth & Quinn, 2009).

In eighth grade, for example, in both reading and math, as recently as 2015, pupils in Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by a solid margin — more so in reading than in math.

In the early grades, an older child will tend to perform better on standardized tests than his younger peers simply by virtue of being older.

This comports with the interpretation that average peer achievement influences everyone's test scores, since Asians score higher than whites in math overall (the Asian - white score gap is positive and relatively large in math, 0.62 of a standard deviation in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades).

The increase in peer prior achievement from 5th to 8th grade at KIPP schools was 0.15 standard deviations greater in reading and 0.19 standard deviations greater in math than for students who attended feeder elementary schools (see Figure 4).

One stated objective was to address the «disparate impact» of policies that might lead to racial minorities taking fewer challenging classes than their peers, totally ignoring the obvious fact that African American and Hispanic students are, on average, much less prepared for AP courses by the time they reach 11th and 12th grade.

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.

In a new study, students in an introductory college statistics class who took a short online survey before each exam asking them to think about how they would prepare for it earned higher grades in the course than their peers — a third of a letter grade higher, on average.

, peer grading teaches them that some assignments don't matter; that they don't have to work too hard on those assignments because the teacher will never see them anyway; and that they can ease their embarrassment about their own errors by teasing those whose scores are a little lower — or significantly higher — than their own.

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.

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.

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.

Accelerated or honors courses offer above - grade - level curricula to students who are ready for it, and allow high - achieving youngsters to move at a faster pace than their peers.

At Blackstone Valley Prep, analysis of the suburban and urban students» scores on the 2013 state exams measuring proficiency in reading and math offers 80 different snapshots, by grade, subject and family income, with Blackstone students faring better than their peers on nearly all.

This encouraged them to study effectively, resulting in higher grades for the whole course — one - third of a letter grade higher, on average, than their peers.

Student evaluations frequently reflect popularity or grading standards, rather than genuine instructional quality, and exhibit gender, racial, and ethnic biases, [v] while peer reviews are subject to «halo effects» resulting from evaluators» knowledge of a faculty member's research record.

Students from more than one racial background are more likely than their single - race peers to experience trouble in school, such as repeating a grade, skipping school, and being suspended, a new study shows.

1) While Americans asked to evaluate the quality of teachers» work think, on average, that about half of the teachers in their local schools deserve a grade of A or B, they think that more than one - fifth deserve a D or F; even teachers give these low marks to more than 1 in 10 of their peers, on average.

«Retained students continue to perform markedly better than their promoted peers when tested at the same grade level and, assuming they are as likely to graduate high school, stand to benefit from an additional year of instruction.»

They include private - school vouchers, online courses and requiring third - graders to pass reading tests before they move up to fourth grade, rather than being pushed along with their peers — or «social promotion.»

College students who participated in a self - administered intervention prompting them to reflect about their use of classroom resources had final grades that were higher than their peers, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Thanks to Giroux and others, the contemporary classroom - even if it falls short of the critical pedagogues» ideal - increasingly is a block - scheduled site presided over by a teacher who, at least concerning academics, is the guide on the side, eschews grades in favor of portfolios, minimizes ability - grouping, and, rather than being a content provider, is a manager of peer editing, team building, and other processes.

In fourth - grade math, DCPS's black students» average scale score was better than their peers» average in only four cities.

The study, which tracked nearly 1,000 native English - and ESL - speaking children immersed in mainstream English classrooms in Canada from kindergarten to second grade, found that by the end of second grade, the ESL children had attained reading skills that were similar to, and in some cases better than, their native English - speaking peers.

It turns out that reported levels of school cohesion vary by grade levels: elementary teachers see their campuses as more coherent, working in professional harmony with peers, than do high school teachers.

Given that the one out of every eight white suburban fourth - graders not on free - or - reduced lunch are struggling with reading is equal to the levels in big - city districts — and the rate of black fourth - grade suburban counterparts who are functionally illiterate is only four percentage points lower than that of big - city peers — suburban districts are actually falling down on their jobs.

Public charter school students continue to outperform their peers, as AzMERIT results show charter students scored better than the state average in virtually every grade level and subject area for the third straight year.

But by the 5th grade, students who received instruction in two languages performed as well as or, in some cases, better than their English - immersion peers on English - proficiency tests and academic - content exams.

Then there is North Carolina, which expects that its districts will get only 61.7 percent of black students in grades three - through eight toward reading proficiency in 2012 - 2013, while expecting only 64.7 percent of Latino and 65.2 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native kids to become proficient in reading; by 2014 - 2015, far lower than the proficiency rates for white and Asian peers; Tar Heel State leaders expect districts bring black, Latino, and Native students to proficiency levels of 69.3 percent, 71.7 percent, and 72.2 percent, respectively, by 2015.

A study conducted by the school district and researchers at Stanford University, and published last year, found that students in the district's English - only programs performed better than their peers in bilingual education programs in the early grades.

Only in 8th - grade reading did two student groups in California score higher than their peers nationwide: whites and well - off students — those not qualifying for the lunch program.