Sentences with phrase «growth over the course of an academic year»

Importantly, teachers overwhelmingly agree that student - learning growth over the course of an academic year is the most important metric in measuring their performance.

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And at the Key Learning Community, in Indianapolis, all high school seniors must document personal and academic growth over the course of four years with digital portfolios that contain everything from writing samples to service - learning projects.

Acknowledgments Preface T he concept is simple and attractive: Evaluate teachers on the basis of how much academic growth their students experience over the course of the school year.

There seems to be some consensus that teacher effectiveness centers on student growth — the amount of social, emotional and academic progress a student makes over the course of a year.

Across that period, charter schools statewide consistently provided greater academic growth than their district peers: on average, charter students over the course of the study saw the equivalent of 34 additional days in reading and 63 in math each year.

It looks at the academic growth of students over the course of a year, whether schools are paying attention to chronically absent students, and, at the high schools, the focus is on graduation rates and access to advanced courses.

The letter grade is based 80 percent on the school's achievement score (which uses various data including student performance on end - of - grade and end - of - course standardized test scores) and 20 percent on students» academic growth (a measure of students» performance in relation to their expected performance based on the prior year's test results), resulting in a grade of A, B, C, D, or F. «Low - performing districts» are those with over 50 percent of their schools identified as low - performing.