Not exact matches
Justice Bola, having considered the arguments
of all the counsel, granted bail to the defendants in the sum
of N10million bond, 2 sureties in like sum who must be professors in FUTA or public officers not less than
grade level 17, and must depose to affidavit
of means.
Justice Bola, having considered the arguments
of all the counsel, granted bail to the defendants in the sum
of N10m bond, two sureties in like sum who must be professors in FUTA or public officers not less than
grade level 17, and must depose to affidavits
of means.
In addition, we proposed
graded levels of what we call biological containment,
meaning you use special viruses, special organisms that reduce the potential for escape from the lab.
«This
means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each
of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration
of grouping students in
grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across
grades and promotes a feeling
of family in our school community.
This
means that if you do not know the content
of a
grade level, or if you do not know how to prepare a lesson plan, or if you do not know how to do whatever is expected
of you, it is your responsibility to find out how to do these things.
15 pairs
of word -
meaning cards that we feel might be appropriate for a primary -
level (
grades 2 and 3) game;
It also
means that others will be allowed to coast, merely because they've already reached «
grade level» standards, however those are defined, and regardless
of whether those actually represent anything accomplished because
of school.
The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises
meant that (a) students were tested by age, not
grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages
of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units
of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.
Although recent re-analyses have challenged the strength
of the earlier findings, the fact remains that the influence
of socioeconomic status on achievement is by no
means uniform across nations, age /
grade levels, gender, and subject matter.
This
means that, in one classroom in each
of these
grades, there are 12 or so gifted students, along with another 12 or so «on -
level» kids.
[13] Our outcome
of interest is the third or fifth -
grade score on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)[14] taken in the relevant year between 1999 and 2012, which we standardize statewide at the
grade and year
level to have a
mean of zero and standard deviation
of one.
Those responsible for NCLB reauthorization, as they struggle forward, should first and foremost establish a clear and consistent definition
of grade -
level proficiency in reading and math, even if it
means giving up the cherished but decidedly unrealistic goal
of proficiency for all students by 2014.
The researchers also point out there were 1290 unique school and
grade combinations in the study sample — an average
of 40 students per combination — which
meant it «lacked statistical power to find significant differences between treatment conditions or
grade levels».
Case Description: When holding a student back a year may
mean she drops out
of school, should her teachers promote her to the next
grade level - even if they don't believe she's mastered the skills she'll need to succeed?
In a troubling picture
of performance, the vast majority
of Illinois students failed to reach the high academic bar on the new state PARCC exams,
meaning they weren't on track academically for the next
grade level, let alone for college or careers.
I get nervous when I hear reformers talk about competency - based learning, eliminating
grade levels, personalized learning, virtual schooling, and other
means of upsetting the traditional paradigm
of schooling.
As the percentage
of students reading at
grade level changes little between 8th and 12th
grades, it
means that more than 90 percent
of Black students in these states are unlikely to graduate from high school college - and career - ready.
Accountability groups shall
mean, for each public school, school district and charter school, those groups
of students for each
grade level or annual high school cohort, as described in paragraph (16)
of this subdivision comprised
of: all students; students from major racial and ethnic groups, as set forth in subparagraph (bb)(2)(v)
of this section; students with disabilities, as defined in section 200.1
of this Title, including, beginning with the 2009 - 2010 school year, students no longer identified as students with disabilities but who had been so identified during the preceding one or two school years; students with limited English proficiency, as defined in Part 154
of this Title, including, beginning with the 2006 - 2007 school year, a student previously identified as a limited English proficient student during the preceding one or two school years; and economically disadvantaged students, as identified pursuant to section 1113 (a)(5)
of the NCLB, 20 U.S.C. section 6316 (a)(5)(Public Law, section 107 - 110, section 1113 [a][5], 115 STAT.
It includes the following classroom -
level variables: school year and
grade indicators, class - type indicators (honors, remedial), class size, indicators for teacher experience, and cubics in class and school -
grade means of lagged test scores in math and English each interacted with
grade.
Teaching isn't easy, and working at Alliance
means having high expectations for ourselves and for all 13,000
of our scholars, including the majority who come to us significantly behind
grade level, those who have special needs, and the high achievers whom we must keep engaged and motivated.
This common preparation
means that less time is spent on review for previous
grade level standards and more time to assure student learning
of the essentials.
But also note: The red line in this picture is above the blue line,
meaning that a greater proportion
of black high school graduates completed college than tested at a college - ready
level in twelfth
grade.
That
meant that nearly half
of the school's 600 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th graders were failing to make
grade -
level in English and in math.
We have a culture in schools
of radical teacher autonomy where every teacher closes the door behind them and does whatever they want, and in too many cases that
means that innovation happens in classrooms, but not in departments, not in
grade level teams, and not in whole schools.
This
means that the SGP calculation compares the pre / post progress for a student with a history
of high achievement to the pre / post progress
of other high - achieving students nationwide at that
grade level.
Educators know that there is no consistency in the
meaning of letter
grades on report cards across classrooms at the same
grade level within the same building, let alone across schools or districts.
This
means that, regardless
of how well the student scores on their PSSA test, they have only done work at that test's
grade level.
Although there was no statistically significant difference on
mean beginning
level of regular education, special education, and at - risk students, results showed that upper - class special education males and ninth -
grade at - risk females had the largest increase in
mean ending
level within the program.
This
means that if your 3rd grader receives a
grade equivalent score on an individual achievement test
of grade 5.8 in math, that she is working, at least on the questions that were asked, at the
level of an average late 5th grader.
Based on the stability and
level of performance on standard achievement tests in first and second
grade (
mean age in first
grade = 82 months), children with IQ scores in the low - average to
This
means that there was a total variation in the percent
of students reaching the «Achievement
Level»
of 17.4 % across
grade levels.
In fifth
grade, students should have command
of grade level appropriate sight words, read and comprehend informational text with domain - specific vocabulary, and use context to determine the correct
meaning of homonyms (multiple -
meaning words) and figurative language, like metaphors, similes, and idioms.
This
means that at each
grade level, we must not only be teaching and assessing the skill
of collaboration, but we must think about how it looks different from
grade level to
grade level.
In third
grade, students should have command
of grade level sight words, be able to read and comprehend informational text with domain - specific vocabulary, and use context to determine the correct
meaning of homonyms (multiple -
meaning words).
In fourth
grade, students should have command
of grade level appropriate sight words, be able to read and comprehend informational text with domain - specific vocabulary, use context to determine the correct
meaning of homonyms (multiple -
meaning words), and recognize figurative language, including common idioms, simple similes, and metaphors.
Summative applications at this
level include accurate summaries
of evidence and
grading symbols that carry clear and consistent
meaning for all.
This may
mean, for example, reading comprehension
of grade -
level text, standards
of mathematical practices, scientific inquiry processes, historical reasoning or academic discussion techniques aligned with speaking and listening standards.
GCSEs have had the same «toughening - up», with the added dimension
of a complete change in nomenclature (numbers over
grades, e.g. 4 = C) and a switch from criterion - lead marking (a C
means the pupils can do this, that and the other) to % cohort classification (63 %
of pupils will get a
level 4 or above).
What will the use
of calculators at all
grade levels mean for teaching mathematics?
But despite promises and new policies
meant to hold more students back until they've mastered
grade -
level material, a University
of Minnesota study currently under peer review found that student retention is actually on the decline.
At the 7th
grade level, learning the
meaning of math vocabulary is vital to succeeding in middle school.
In other instances, the content stays at the same
level of difficulty across two or more
grades, as with recognizing multiple -
meaning words, rather than moving from lower to higher
levels of difficulty as needed.
I
mean if you've got a 5th grader reading at a second
grade level, and by the end
of the year he's reading at a 4th
grade level that should be rewarded.
They're
meant to replace a hodgepodge
of state standards with one set
of clear, consistent goals for what students should learn in Math and English at every
grade level.
In earlier
grades, word identification fluency (WIF) is also a strong predictor
of early reading ability, but again, not a perfect one (Fuchs, Fuchs, & Compton, 2004; Schatschneider, 2006) This
means that screening instruments that rely on single measures such as ORF or WIF will provide fairly good information about student performance, but alone they can't provide information at
levels needed for an effective RTI process (> 90 % sensitivity; > 80 % specificity).
In Year 2, based on requests from teachers for regular feedback related to their observations, teachers received a copy
of each observation, a description
of the codes, a brief summary
of research related to the major coding categories being analyzed for the project (e.g., incidence
of whole group instruction, and incidence
of higher -
level questioning; see page 17), and a table summarizing the codes from their observations (e.g., the incidence
of whole - group instruction, the incidence
of higher -
level questioning, etc.) and comparing them to the
means at their
grade level across all schools.
Even though the vast majority
of teachers at all schools in the project voted to engage in schoolwide reading reform, the schools clearly have a long way to go to raise their reading scores to «breaking the mold»
levels, with current
mean standardized reading comprehension scores across schools, for example, standing at 40 in
grades 2 and 3, and at 37 in
grades 4 and 5.
Rather, it seems that educators across the country from all different roles,
grade levels, and content areas are talking about classroom video and what it could
mean for their growth, and more importantly, the growth
of their students.
Besides the enormous concerns with Achievement First's disciplinary policies as revealed in the report last year (which should have resulted in placing the charter under state supervision and in preventing additional school takeovers, I
mean openings), a troubling issue with In - School Suspensions, Time Out Rooms, and Out -
of - School suspensions, at all
grade levels, is that it takes students out
of the learning environment.
Meaningful growth
means at least one year's worth
of growth for students who are at or above
grade level and more than one year's worth
of growth for students who are below
grade level