Sentences with phrase «measure over a school year»

If that was only true of the school in which he gave his speech — CASSA received a «D» on its Performance Index and an «F» in value - added, a growth measure over a school year.

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These may sound like extreme measures for an afternoon errand, but there is only one office supply store in our town and it services the entire school district; over the years I have learned to contingency plan and pack.

Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

The Department for Education estimates that 1,000 schools will convert to academies over the next five years as a result of the measure, contained in the new Education and Adoption Bill.

Democratic lawmakers expressed disapproval for the education reform measures included in the spending plan, which boosts school aid by $ 1.3 billion over last year.

The measure would have allowed schools to borrow more than $ 1 billion in bonds in order to cover pension costs plus interest over 15 years.

To look at the rate of change in working memory in relation to different measures of socioeconomic status, the researchers studied more than three hundred 10 - through 13 - year - olds from urban public and parochial schools over four years.

Over the past few years, several US states and local school boards have introduced measures that would mean teachers must include the views of those who are sceptical of a human influence on climate change in science lessons.

Washington — The House last week approved a measure that would provide up to $ 50 million annually over the next three years to high schools and community colleges for the improvement of foreign - language instruction.

Over the last two years or so we've shared research and practical advice for the classroom through our series on School Improvement, Action Research, Teaching Methods, Global Education and, of course, The Research Files --- and we've thrown in a few special episodes for good measure!

Moreover, years of schooling are easily measured, and data on years attained, both over time and across individuals, are readily available.

Given a large data set, I also was able to account for characteristics of schools that I could not directly measure but that might influence student achievement over the school year.

In their report, Miron and Applegate conclude that Edison Schools do improve from year to year on norm - referenced tests, which measure gains in students knowledge over time, but on criterion - referenced tests, which measure whether or not students meet state standards, Edison students fared no better than students from surrounding public sSchools do improve from year to year on norm - referenced tests, which measure gains in students knowledge over time, but on criterion - referenced tests, which measure whether or not students meet state standards, Edison students fared no better than students from surrounding public schoolsschools.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

But in a subsequent meeting, the staff actually took portions of the MCAS and came to these conclusions: Although the test is hard, it really does measure the kinds of skills and knowledge students need to be successful in the 21st century; because the MCAS is a curriculum - referenced test whose items are released every year, it is possible to align the curriculum and study for the test; and finally, our students have a long way to go, but most can reach proficiency if the whole school teaches effectively over time.

An alternative way of defining and measuring success at school would be in terms of the progress or growth that students make over the course of a year, regardless of their starting point.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

The latest figures show the number of pupils now attending good or better schools in Manchester is the same as that nationally - with a rate of improvement on this measure over the last four years that far outstrips national improvement.»

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.

Money from a $ 26 million reward fund, averaging about $ 2,000 a teacher, will be divided among the 38 percent of the state's schools that improved by more than 10 percent on certain measures over the past two years.

Many school leaders attribute this to changes over the past two years in how school performance is measured and the greater focus on pupils» achievement in academic subjects.

The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) measures the height and weight of nearly one million school children in England each year, and their latest report indicates that just over 19 per cent of children aged 10 - 11 are obese, with a further 14 per cent classed as overweight.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

the school has failed to demonstrate, over the three consecutive year period for which accountability determinations have been made pursuant to this subdivision, at least a 25 point gain in its performance index for the «all students» group in each English language arts and mathematics measure for which the school is held accountable; and / or

The Council of Chief State School Officers has worked with several partners over the past few years on recommendations for those CCR measures best suited for state accountability systems.

Growth measures — like «value added» or «student growth percentiles» — are a much fairer way to evaluate schools, since they can control for prior achievement and can ascertain progress over the course of the school year.

Because measures of test - score growth are less stable over time than measures of test - score levels, we average the points awarded to each school based on levels and growth over the previous three years.

Senators last month effectively killed off a measure providing for a statewide referendum on the amendment when, on the last day of their legislative session, they amended the bill to provide that only two - thirds of school operating costs would be removed from property taxes over 10 years.

Separating out the effect of race matching from differences between schools requires individual - level data on students and teachers, including their race and exposure to school discipline measures over multiple years.

Over the last five years, our measures show the already high percentage of California charter schools that are high performing has increased modestly while the percentage of low - performing charter schools has dropped by about one - third.

Following Linn «s (2003) advice for generating stable achievement measures, we represented each school «s performance by the combined mathematics and language scores for all grades tested, averaged over three years.

This measure would allow a newly - created state commission or approved local school boards to authorize qualifying nonreligious, nonprofit organizations to operate public charter schools, limited to forty schools over five years.

Christodoulou, who used to be head of assessment at Ark Schools before moving to her new post this summer, said the purpose of the tests was to give teachers a way to measure the «absolute» progress of their individual pupils over the year — rather than be stuck with their «relative» progress against the rest of the nation as shown by the government's headline progress measures.

The measure would have authorized the creation of up to 45 charter schools over six years.

We also measured a handful of organizational characteristics plausibly related to leader efficacy including school and district size, school level, and number of different principals in the school over the past 10 years.

Schools will be required to show significant improvement over time which will be measured by requiring the schools to meet their interim targets or reduce non-proficiency rates of the specific low performing subgroup by 10 % for two consecutiveSchools will be required to show significant improvement over time which will be measured by requiring the schools to meet their interim targets or reduce non-proficiency rates of the specific low performing subgroup by 10 % for two consecutiveschools to meet their interim targets or reduce non-proficiency rates of the specific low performing subgroup by 10 % for two consecutive years.

«However, it will be particularly difficult to measure children's progress over the next few years as schools are dealing with a new «more rigorous» national curriculum, new key stage 2 tests, new, tougher GCSEs and new scoring systems.

This year's Legislature approved a modest charter measure that would authorize the creation of 45 of these schools over the next six years.

After a two - month period (40 consecutive school days) implementing this poetry lesson plan, Ms. Eikenberry found that her third graders made over a year's worth of growth in reading achievement as measured by the i - Ready reading comprehension standards, while her fourth grade students made more than three - quarters of a year's growth.

She will discuss her leadership priorities when taking her school out of special measures towards sustained achievement as an outstanding school over many years.

The measure allows the creation of as many as eight charter schools each year over a five - year period, leaving it to the state Board of Education to establish the timeline and the application process.

He was most well - known for developing «a method used to measure a district, school, and teacher's effect on student performance by tracking the year - to - year progress of students against themselves over their school career with various teachers» classes.»

The second is a bond measure that would raise $ 360 million over 10 years to replace or rebuild aging and obsolete elementary and middle schools.

Mr Watts said that the fairest way of allocating funding would be to measure take - up in the middle of the school year, and possibly take an average over a longer period of time such as a half term.

Similar to the paper - and - pencil Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination, MAP measures attainment — how much a student understands in a given subject — but unlike WKCE, MAP can track a student's growth over the course of a school year.

That time of year when teachers and students are fully immersed in assessments meant to measure student growth over the course of the school year and from year to year.

However, this type of system does not measure the progress of any student, class, or school over the course of an academic year.

A bill that would prohibit school districts from entering into financial contracts with the same firms that provide bond measure campaign services is being held over until next year as the author attempts to gain support for the proposal.

Leading financial firms over the past five years donated $ 1.8 million to successful school bond measures in California, and in almost every instance, school district officials hired those same underwriters to sell the bonds for a profit, a California Watch review has found.

For years, this provision dangled threats of punitive measures, including closure, over struggling schools if they didn't meet narrow federally mandated test - based measures of accountability.