Sentences with phrase «independent measures of student achievement»

CTAC research found that students whose teachers crafted high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed significantly greater gain on two independent measures of student achievement at all three school levels during all years under study.

This study found that students whose teachers crafted high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed significantly greater gain on two independent measures of student achievement at all three school levels during all years under study.

Not exact matches

To test the sensitivity of our results to this methodological decision, we constructed a value - added indicator that measures a teacher's contribution to student achievement (accounting for a wide variety of student and classroom characteristics that could affect achievement independent of the teacher's ability).

The value - added measures are designed to provide estimates of the independent effect of the teacher on the growth in a student's learning and to separate this from other influences on achievement such as families, peers, and neighborhoods.

Eliminate the 25:1 student - to - teacher ratio for virtual charter schools — a measure based on no convincing empirical evidence that it raises student achievement — and take virtual charters out of the category of independent study.

Student achievement is measured by test results, which can be independent of standards (think arbitrary proficiency rates, score normalizing, tests not aligned with standards, etc).

This was the first scientific study of its kind in the US, and it sought to answer if merit pay alone, independent of other resources and support, increased student achievement as measured by test scores.