«What I'm most proud of is that
great exam performance sits alongside great sport, music, and arts at Hethersett, and that our sixth formers have a well - rounded education that helps them move on to some of the best universities.
Not exact matches
Students who completed the intervention exercise also reported less negative emotion in relation to the upcoming
exams compared with their peers, and they reported a
greater sense of control over their
performance, suggesting that students actually noticed the benefits of their strategic planning.
Most of the researchers examining the effects of teachers on student test
performance have concluded that math teachers have a
greater effect on students»
performance on math
exams than English language arts teachers have on students»
performance on English
exams.
The employment of these generic approaches should lead to stronger student
performance on the AP
exams but also to
greater teacher satisfaction in the instruction of the course work as the teaching - learning dynamic becomes more palpable in the classroom.
In the meantime, all school leaders should know that if lots of pupils switch
exam entries, or lots of pupils work at the borderline of
performance measures, they are more likely to see
great leaps in results, but also reductions.
Less than one - third of states currently require these
exams for licensure, however, and many states that do still tend to set a low bar for passage.8 In sum, many licensure
exams do not include a
performance component and do not assess the types of skills that make for
great teaching in the classroom.
A Harvard study of students in Texas found that a teacher's level of education, experience, and scores on licensing
exams have a
greater influence on student
performance than any other factor.
Student
performance on the NAVLE does correlate with class rank with students in the bottom quartile of the class being at
greater risk of failure on their first attempt to take the
exam.