Sentences with phrase «individual students from grade»

Our data set enabled us to examine the test - score gains of individual students from grade to grade across three school years.

Not exact matches

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.

Some decisions were easy: to provide a program from 7th grade through graduation; to move students through the program on an individual basis; to ask our teachers to be well educated, but to act more as generalists than specialists; to keep teachers» student loads down, and to offer advisories instead of more formal and distant «guidance counseling»; to offer only one foreign language, but to expect all to learn it; to put our money into more adults, some of them young adults, rather than into high rents or new furniture.

Although the NewSchools data set does not include state test results for individual students, it does include grade - level performance for most schools, which makes it possible to track improvement of cohorts of students from one year to the next.

Most importantly, we tracked the performance of individual students over time to see how their performance evolved relative to that of their peers as they progressed from grades 3 to 8, in essence, using each student as his or her own control group.

In addition, the Texas data do not match students to individual teachers, meaning that we must draw inferences about teacher effectiveness from average information across an entire grade.

States can now focus most of their analysis on individual student progress over time — the fairest way to assess the value that schools add to student learning and the best way to disentangle school grades from demographics over which they have scant control.

Prior to the 1970s, individual school districts bore nearly all of the responsibility for determining what the students within their purview needed to know and be able to do to advance from grade to grade and graduate from high school.

As much as I would like to sit down and do some grading, or prepare other work while my students are supposed to be engaged doing productive individual practice, if I want my students to take the individual practice seriously, I have to move around the classroom like a bee going from flower to flower, not staying too long in one spot.

Also, there is much information to be gained from having individual conversations with students who have these contradictions between their standardized test scores and their classroom grades and performance.

Birmingham Covington's student - centered philosophy is embedded throughout the curriculum, from third - and fourth - grade classes focused on teaching individual resourcefulness to an almost wholly independent capstone class in seventh and eighth grade called Thinkering Studio.

Thus we can see how individual students perform on nationally normed exams as they move from «tough» to «easy» grading teachers and vice versa.

Students receive scores on the FCAT ranging from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest), with the thresholds for each performance level designed to correspond with the letter grades A through F. Thus results from the FCAT are ideal for developing a measure of how generous individual teachers» grading policies are.

All Indiana schools will now earn state letter grade ratings based not only on changes in the school's passage rates on state tests, but on «growth» in individual students» test scores from year to year.

It is clear from this study that a combination of sound building decisions and collaborative efforts as well as effective practices within individual classrooms are needed if schools are to succeed at beating the odds in terms of primary grade students» reading achievement.

Students from grades 9 to 12 use the programs in a lab setting or with individual tutors.

Measures that describe individual student growth from one year to the next in relation to learning standards that span multiple grades or in relation to the progress of students» peers.

Over the summer, she analyzed their CMT scores and compared them to an end - of - year assessment from fourth grade, developing individual tests for the first week of school to see where students stood.

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

Similarly, 6th grade mathematics teacher Rebecca Spaeth shifts students from individual desks to groups and back to individual desks on the basis of their performance in particular areas of mathematics.

They share out weekend weather, historical facts, health tips from Mrs. Becker, our school nurse, and shout outs to grade levels, classrooms and / or individual students.

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CCSS for ELA / Literacy has reading standards for informational texts for each grade level that require students to analyze a text; draw inferences from a text; analyze interactions between individuals, events and ideas; and determine an author's point of view (CCSS Initiative 2010).

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Conducted individual academic counseling sessions with high school students from grades 9th - 11th.

Participants were 152 community - based early adolescent individuals (72 female, 80 male; mean age 12.6 years, s.d. 0.4 years; range 11.4 — 13.7 years), from a larger sample of 2479 grade 6 students (from 97 separate schools, representative of Victorian school sector type and socioeconomic classification) as part of a broader adolescent development study conducted at Orygen Youth Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, the aim of which was to investigate risk factors for psychopathology during adolescence.

Principles from ecological theory and knowledge derived from studies of risk and protection among children and youths are used to examine individual -, peer -, school -, and family - level factors associated with the likelihood of victimization among 150 low - income, urban, Hispanic female eighth - grade students.