Sentences with phrase «improving student grades»

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With In2Books, for example, ePals helps students in grades 3 to 5 to improve their reading skills with the support of adult mentors in a safe, online learning environment.

The average student completing Jump Start, our traditional intensive tutoring program, improves an entire letter grade in 60 days.

We're still working with kids to improve their grades, but now there are also students trying to get an edge through test prep.

Founded in 2011, this education company provides one - on - one online tutoring to help students in grades K - 12 and college improve their grades and test scores.

Anita Krishnamurthi and Nick Hutchinson were able to talk about the much larger picture of PPP programs for informal STEM education, including how we measure private industry involvement, as well as how students are improving their grades, school participation, and post-graduation success rates.

Students got their papers back with the teacher's comments and the Post-it, and then they were given the option of revising their essay to respond to the comments and improve their grade.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

Students in 4th - 6th grade who went to bed an average of 30 - 40 minutes earlier improved in memory, motor speed, attention, and other abilities associated with math and reading test scores.

The student's grades have improved, and even more surprising; they're better at controlling their emotions.

«From our studies and all the research leading up to the program, the students «grades improve, their attention span is longer when they have breakfast.

Recommendation: To improve SFAs» ability to design menus that comply with the new lunch requirements, the Secretary of Agriculture should modify federal regulations or guidance to allow school districts flexibility in complying with the defined calorie ranges for schools with students in both the grades 6 - 8 and 9 - 12 groups.

Involvement has been shown to increase grades, leads to more consistent homework completion, improve student behavior at school, increase high school graduation rates, reduce school drop - out rates, increase college attendance, and lower rates of experimentation with tobacco, alcohol, and recreational drugs.

Dr. King, the state commissioner, said the disturbing nature of these records was part of the reason he and other state education officials recently recommended a ban starting next school year on the longstanding practice of teachers» grading their own students» tests and would urge districts to improve monitoring on test days.

The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

Students in third through eighth grades in the Syracuse City School District have improved their standardized test scores in both math and English, but the scores still lag behind statewide scores.

Students who do poorly on the exams have to try to improve their performance in summer school or face having to repeat a grade.

While scores improved by nearly 2 % from last year, the results show that only around 40 % of students in grades three through eight are considered proficient in English and math.

Students» performance on the Common Core - aligned, third - through eighth - grade math tests has also improved since the exams were introduced in 2013.

Project 2061 materials will help the Quebec - based project to improve the conceptual understanding of science and technology by seventh - and eighth - grade students.

Tracking student progress and helping them improve their grades is part of Toliver's job.

MarYam Hamedani (Stanford University) will discuss work on how difference - education interventions can successfully educate students about social difference and improve first - generation college students» grades.

In addition to being an organizer and consultant for the Jumpstart Core Curriculum Institute (JCCI), a program founded by Leslie Brown that develops strategies for improving literacy, science, math, technology, and social - science skills among disadvantaged minority students in grades K - 12, I teach chemistry to high school students at the University of South Carolina?s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Summer Program.

II: Saving the Kingdom of Fivealot, researchers from the United States Department of Agriculture / Agricultural Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital evaluated how creating implementation intentions (i.e., specific plans) within the goal - setting component in the game helped fourth and fifth grade students improve fruit and vegetable intake at specific meals.

While that doesn't seem like an ideal combination for great grades, new Concordia research shows that the occasional bout of bad feelings can actually improve students» academic success.

The new analyses by Powers and colleagues showed that individual student grades also improved just from being in classrooms with a greater proportion of African Americans who received the intervention.

At schools with a student poverty rate of below 10 percent, by contrast, the research team found that regular informal exchange among parents helps improve students» grade point average and makes them more likely to graduate.

A simple writing exercise that had been shown to help minority students improve their grades also seems to help female physics students.

The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.

We do this by matching them with the best university student coaches improving their grades, confidence and expectations.

This English listening Web site created by Randall Davis helps ESL / EFL students improve their listening comprehension skills through practice with self - grading quiz...

Randall's self - study guide at his site which helps ESL / EFL students improve their English listening comprehension skills through practice with self - grading

We do this by matching them with the best university student coaches improving their grades, confidence and expectations.

Randall's self - study guide at his site which helps ESL / EFL students improve their English listening comprehension skills through practice with self - grading A index and list of all the Lessons on.

These assessments should not be graded, allowing students the opportunity and safety to improve toward a summative final product.

Career academy students generally showed more improved attendance, credits, and grades.

CASEL president Roger P. Weissberg and Joseph Durlak, a Loyola University psychologist, reviewed 300 studies and found that, compared with nonparticipants, students participating in programs aimed at improving the social and emotional learning environment in schools «have significantly better attendance records; their classroom behavior is more constructive and less often disruptive; they like school more; and they have better grade point averages.

The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

Check out four best practices for teaching writing that can help you improve student learning without creating a mountain of grading work.

These differentiated task sheets allow students to self assess where they are at and identify what they need to do to improve their grade.

Benefits: The students have responded with better attendance and written work, improved grades, and a more positive culture in the room.

But it is also plausible that schools will develop strategies for improving the grade they receive from the state without actually improving the academic performance of students.

Despite commitments to improve reading and mathematics achievement, states are still not making enough progress in helping all students reach grade - level standards in those subjects, concludes a report that examines reading and math achievement in all 50 states.

«Since I joined the boys group my grades have really improved,» said one student.

At these conferences, students reflect on what they've learned, what they consider to be areas for growth (for example, grades or skills they can improve) and long - term goals (such as what college they plan to attend).

The article «The WWWDOT approach to improving students» critical evaluation of websites» (Zhang, Duke, & Jimenez, 2011 — see below) provides further detail about teaching the WWWDOT framework, with a description of and artifacts from instruction in a fourth - grade classroom.

English teacher Suzanne L. Schmitt shares a win - win strategy that allows students a chance to turn in a paper, participate in a quick review, and then swap that paper with a revision that improves on the first — and may even mean a higher grade.

For graduation rates, 93 percent of all students must graduate for a district or school to earn an A grade, and for subgroup graduation rates to improve by half the gap between their current graduation rates and 100 percent by 2025 - 26.

Give students opportunities to improve their grade or retest material to do better in the course.

Such policies aim to provide incentives for educators and parents to help low - performing students improve their skills before third grade.

Quality Counts 2006, like the nine previous editions of the report, tracks key education information and grades states on their policies related to student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and resources.