Sentences with phrase «improving student scores on standardized tests»

Clearly, physical exercise is just one of the necessary ingredients for improving student scores on standardized tests.

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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.

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.

Since NCLB, there has been increased pressure on such programs to prove their relevance in education by quickly improving students» grades and standardized test scores.

As schools narrow their focus on improving performance on math and reading standardized tests, they have greater difficulty justifying taking students out of the classroom for experiences that are not related to improving those test scores.

Of these nine options, «improving students» scores on standardized achievement tests» came in last place with 69 percent support (36 percent strongly).

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

Although more than half the students who spend an extra year in the same grade and attend summer school improve their scores on standardized tests, the remaining students held back continue to struggle.

In The Four - Day School Week, another School Administrator report, Jack McCoy, deputy director of learning services at the New Mexico Department of Education, said in his district's case attendance for teachers and students improved while scores on standardized achievement tests remained stable.

Students participating in arts - integrated lessons show increased language and math scores on standardized tests and improved engagement, motivation, and sense of community (Smithrim and Upitis, 2005).

Later this month, The Times will publish a database of more than 6,000 elementary school teachers ranked by their ability to improve students» scores on standardized tests, marking the first time such information had been released publicly.

The dozen educators who stood trial, including five teachers and a principal, were indicted in 2013 after years of questions about how Atlanta students had substantially improved their scores on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test, a standardized examination given throughout Georgia.

The authors assert that teachers «still don't trust test scores» and only one in three support rewarding teachers whose students routinely score higher on standardized tests; overall, however, teachers think evaluations are improving.

In contrast, external standardized tests provide teachers with little guidance on how to improve student learning when they simply receive numerical scores on secret tests months after the students have left school.

Teachers credit the program with renewing their students» interest in science, as well as improving their scores on Michigan's standardized science tests.

The law freed states to expand the ways they hold schools responsible for improving student success by adding at least one «nonacademic» indicator to an accountability system primarily based on standardized tests scores in reading, math and science.

A core component of that system relies on whether teachers can improve their student's standardized test scores.

And they fund the same vehicles to achieve their goals: charter schools, high - stakes standardized testing for students, merit pay for teachers whose students improve their test scores, firing teachers and closing schools when scores don't rise adequately, and longitudinal data collection on the performance of every student and teacher.

How students perform on their English, math and science standardized tests — including how much each student's scores improved over the previous year's — are the primary driver of a school's score.

California's Central Valley Networked Improvement Communities seek to improve fifth - grade mathematics and triple students» math proficiency on standardized test scores in just four years.

In a study of three districts using standards - based evaluation systems, researchers found significant relationships between teachers» ratings and their students» gain scores on standardized tests, and evidence that teachers» practice improved as they were given frequent feedback in relation to the standards.

The constant public focus on standardized test scores suggests the belief that the threat of sanctions or promise of rewards (mostly in the form of increased funding) will enhance students» test scores and improve school quality — that schools can somehow be coerced or seduced into improvement.

After receiving a doctorate degree with a specialization in Knowledge Management from Walden University, Dr. Giorgio returned to a supervisory and curriculum role to work closely with teachers and the curriculum development process in order to improve student test scores on state standardized tests.

For example, classroom concentration, attention, and memory immediately increase after physical activity, and student test scores correlate positively with regular participation.122 Research has also shown that elementary school students that perform better in reading, mathematics, and science have higher physical fitness test scores.123 In addition, children who perform below grade level academically and participate in a physical activity program are more likely to improve their performance on standardized tests than are their less active peers.124

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Value - added analysis calculates a teacher's effectiveness in improving student performance on standardized tests — based on past test scores.

However, an over-reliance on student standardized test scores for evaluating teacher and principal performance does not take into account improved student progress in light of challenging circumstances that confront students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).