Therefore, the reading strategies in this section should be implemented school wide, as part of a school culture that works toward
high levels of student achievement in reading.
Years of research have demonstrated that the single greatest catalyst driving high
levels of student achievement in the classroom is an effective classroom teacher.
The authors describe the continuous staff development, provide examples of how the strategies worked in classrooms of different subject areas, and cite the
increased levels of student achievement.
We strive to attain high
levels of student achievement for all of our students and we work to insure the academic engagement and a sense of belonging of all students.
The study identified 13 best practices across three dimensions of teacher behaviors and strategies which are correlated to significantly higher
levels of student achievement in an online learning environment.
Parent involvement, which Marcon asked teachers to rate based on parent - teacher conferences as well as home visits and time spent volunteering at school, was compared
with levels of student achievement.
Rankings such as novice, apprentice, and journeyman are used, as well as indicators
of level of student achievement that start with universal level and work up to discipline level.
CLAIMS Charter schools are marketed to the public as incubators of innovation offering
superior levels of student achievement and college and career readiness when compared to traditional public schools.
Several studies have
compared levels of student achievement according to state tests and NAEP, often finding large gaps that serve as red flags that the state expectations for student performance are lower than those of NAEP.
Harvard academic Lant Pritchett has described the curriculum in many developing countries as «overambitious» and, like us, has concluded that the curriculum «gap» between national aspirations and
actual levels of student achievement often represents several years of school.
For example, assessments can be used to establish
overall levels of student achievement in a subject such as Physics; mastery of particular topics such as energy and mechanics; or the ability to apply Newton's First Law to explain the relationship between force and motion in practical situations.
When author Karin Chenoweth began to investigate what goes in to making a school successful, she looked at a rather unexpected place: schools in low - income communties that, despite their lack of resources and supports, were showing
impressive levels of student achievement.
Interim assessments provide a snapshot of what students know and can do, while the Digital Library has over 3,000 resources to target specific concepts at
varying levels of student achievement.
We also find that perceptions of school quality in Florida are unrelated to student demographic characteristics, including the percentage of students who are poor, once we take into
account levels of student achievement.
In other words, NAEP has been identifying gains that are somewhere between two and three times as large as those recorded by two respected international testing agencies that do not have a political stake in showing
rising levels of student achievement in any particular country.
«On behalf of the Board of Education, I congratulate our 17 commended schools, which we have recognized not only for their
excellent levels of student achievement but also for closing achievement gaps and attaining high participation rates on state assessments.
But, and this is the point that Murray did not address, the
mean level of student achievement in the competitive marketplace could well be much higher than the mean level in our current monopoly system despite the fact that, within each of these systems, school - to - school variation might be low.
In contrast to the traditional methods of measuring school effectiveness (including the adequate yearly progress system set up under NCLB), value - added models do not look only at
current levels of student achievement.
As educators search for ways to boost perennially
low levels of student achievement, many are zeroing in on what they consider a root cause of poor performance: the lack of students» motivation to learn.
We affirm the union's responsibility to collaborate with other stakeholders in public education and to seek consistently higher
levels of student achievement by:
Focused on how the new standards are affecting teachers» students and classrooms, the survey found that over the past year the majority of teachers have remained optimistic that the Common Core will lead to
greater levels of student achievement and that many are observing positive changes in their classrooms despite some challenges in implementation.
Charter schools are marketed to the public as incubators of innovation offering
superior levels of student achievement and college and career readiness when compared to traditional public schools.
The result: consistently
high levels of student achievement with Direct Instruction programs implemented for early intervention, Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), Response to Intervention (RtI), prevention and remediation, special education, or core instruction.
Emphasizing high
levels of student achievement in our current standardized testing regime and fostering continuous student engagement need not be mutually exclusive practices.
Along with University of Munich professor Ludger Woessmann, I have estimated the impact on U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of higher
levels of student achievement.
The quality of our teaching force determines
the level of student achievement, and student achievement directly determines how our economy will develop in the long run.
Part II is the annual state - by - state report card, full of charts and tables assigning grades and rankings to the fifty states on
their level of student achievement, progress in adopting standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, their school climate, and the resources they devote to education.
Drawing on his previous work on the impact on U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of higher
levels of student achievement, Hanushek explains that an NCLB impact of $ 14 trillion over 80 years is «very close to the current $ 15 trillion level of our entire (annual) GDP.»