Sentences with phrase «increasing student test scores»

Further, the findings highlight the importance of principal preparation programs beyond increasing student test scores (currently a common way to evaluate programs» efficacy); the ideas about what it means to be an instructional leader will likely permeate graduates» conceptions and associated practices with some permanence.

But though schools may have to prove they're increasing student test scores, the city's department of education doesn't hold private companies to the same rules.

Many have worked to align their curricula more closely with state standards in order to increase student test scores.

Communicate to principals and teachers that excessive teaching to the test will not increase student test scores - and may even hinder them.

Though Ahn and Vigdor concede that North Carolina's implementation of AYP — including merit bonuses to teachers who increased student test score growth — may have ameliorated any possible «adverse impacts» on either top - performing or struggling students, they conclude that high - performing kids can benefit from accountability.

This, in turn, increases students test scores, self - confidence, and retention rates.

Download a Scientifically Based Research Report showing how Excel Math increases student test scores across all grade levels.

Most teachers are paid according to their experience and educational attainment, but as educator Thomas Luschei has demonstrated, there is little evidence that more than 3 - 5 years of experience boost teachers» ability to increase student test scores or grades.

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A college student who earned a perfect SAT score wants to help others increase their test scores.

Since Joel has started donating money to some of the schools, their progress on student testing scores have heavily increased showing that his money is doing something to help.

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.

When you present the facts about school breakfast, and its associated benefits — increased test scores, fewer behavioral problems, improved focus in the classroom — you give stakeholders the opportunity to understand the measurable results that come from feeding students a morning meal.

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

Two elementary schools in North Carolina increased the achievement test scores of students from the 30th percentile to the 83rd percentile over a three - year period.

The evidence is compelling: Two elementary schools in North Carolina were able to increase the achievement - test scores of students from the 30th percentile up to the 83rd percentile over a three - year period.

If schools had to compete for students the same way businesses compete for customers, schools would need to strive toward increasing test scores and better preparing students for the workforce.

The Legislature today, led by the Assembly, reached an agreement on a package of education proposals that will immediately increase state aid to schools, provide that teachers are evaluated on more than a single student test score and ensure local oversight of struggling schools,» United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said.

The school has shown low scores on mandated state tests, but many argue that new school leadership and increasing student performance should give the school a reprieve.

EDUCATION Mr. Cuomo proposed a new teacher rating system that would base 50 percent of an instructor's evaluation on student test scores — an increase from 20 percent.

A new, controversial evaluation system, backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was put in place last legislative session which, through a matrix model, increased the weight of student state test scores in evaluations to up to 50 percent.

Included among the proposed reforms is a teacher evaluation system based half on student test scores, an increase in the length of time before a teacher is eligible for tenure and allowing the state to take over failing schools and districts.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

The governor's push to increase the weight of test scores upset the teachers» unions and many parents, and was considered a factor when 20 percent of students sat out state math and reading tests — which had been aligned with the Common Core national benchmarks — this year.

The scores of New York City students increased slightly in both math and English language arts on the latest state tests, released on Aug. 14, as students became more familiar with the Common Core Learning Standards and their teachers worked hard with what materials and training they eventually got.

«In contrast, students with poor grades and test scores suffered from a decline in positive emotions and an increase in negative emotions, such as math anxiety and math boredom.

Although the participation of Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans in advanced high school mathematics classes increased between 1982 and 1994, their scores in standardized mathematics tests were still lower than those of other students, and the discrepancy did not diminish between 1990 and 1996 (NCES, 1996).

Over an average of five weeks the blended students» improvement between the entrance and the exit test was 9 points, compared to an average score increase of 3 points for the students in the control groups during the same time period.

Students score higher on standardized tests, engage in healthier behaviors at home, increase their community involvement, and report more engagement in the classroom.

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

Gains in student test scores also outpaced previous levels as well as the increases in district scores, he added.

The exciting aspect of this is that it has the potential to increase the reading levels of our neediest students, and could have an impact on our test scores as well,» he told Education World.

Tough presents particularly compelling narratives about the progress of one Promise Academy elementary school and the middle school, the former achieving dramatic increases in test scores, and the latter temporarily closing its doors to new students as a result of poor (albeit improving) performance.

In New York City, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña recently implied that the city's charter schools remove low - performing students in order to increase their aggregate test scores.

«I try to emphasize to my teachers that our goal is to increase our students» learning as evidenced by the test scores.

A major study of 415,000 school students conducted over five years to 2012, «Student Attendance and Educational Outcomes: Every Day Counts», has linked increasing rates of absenteeism with declining scores in national literacy and numeracy tests.

Our results show that each year of attendance at an oversubscribed Boston charter school increases the math test scores of students in our sample by 13 percent of a standard deviation.

As test - preparation materials leap off the printed page and onto the Web, an increasing number of states and districts are turning to online test - prep programs to help raise student scores on high - stakes assessments, Advanced Placement tests, and college - entrance exams.

Higher test scores in high school do not necessarily translate into greater postsecondary attainment and increased earnings in adulthood, yet our study demonstrates that, for many students, accountability pressure does seem to positively influence these long - range outcomes.

Successful schools have demonstrated their ability to dramatically increase crystallized knowledge and thereby raise test scores, improving other important student outcomes in the process.

In comparison, an experimental study of class sizes in Tennessee finds that reducing class size by one - third increases test scores by 4 percentile points in the first year at a cost of $ 2,151 per student per year (in 1996 dollars).

Other benefits Sacramento educatorshave seen include increased student attendance, better test scores andclassroom behavior, and decreased vandalism.

«Cost benefit estimates,» say the authors, «show that taxpayers paid 51 dollars per student for an experienced teacher to retire in return for an increase in test scores of 1 percent of a standard deviation — a negligible amount.»

Taken together, the cost and benefit estimates suggest that taxpayers paid $ 51 per student in return for an increase in test scores of 1 percent of a standard deviation.

• Each year of attendance at an oversubscribed charter school increased the math test scores of students in the sample by 13 percent of a standard deviation, a roughly 50 percent increase over the progress typical students make in a school year, but had no impact on their fluid cognitive skills.

In 1999, Michigan increased the reward for good academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one - year $ 2,500 scholarship for any student who scores at Level I or Level 2 on the Michigan Educational Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writing.

Yet there are surprisingly few studies that make this link explicitly, and none that ask whether schools that respond to accountability pressure by increasing students» test scores also make those students more likely to attend and complete college, to earn more as adults, or to benefit in the long - run in other important ways.

With every bubble of knowledge that students darken using their # 2 pencils, our nation increases its infatuation with measuring teachers» performance through students» standardized test scores.

The authors found that PLCs have a positive effect on student learning: student scores increased in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies subject tests.

We find the program did not reduce test scores; likely, it increased them, with positive effects most pronounced in schools that serve a more disadvantaged student population.

This led me to wonder what I could do to increase my students» vocabulary, thus producing higher test scores.»